8 Mind Bending Facts To Make You (Look Like) A Geography Expert [Video]
Be the Indiana Jones of your friend group with these amazing facts. [Buzzfeed]
Category Archives: Culture
20 Strange Discoveries on Google Earth/Maps [Videos]
http://youtu.be/Dvg7HYHJt-c 20 strange discoveries you can find on Google Earth. Unfortunately, the coordinates are not available for part II (above), but they are for part I (below!) http://youtu.be/nuiE0hc77NY Coordinates: Missile Test 38.226617, -112.29907 Firefox Crop Circle 45.123736, -123.113748 Ocean Liner 22.303976, 114.189888 The Badlands Guardian 50.010525, -110.114143 Airplane Graveyard 32.15387, -110.830121 Unexplained Fighter Jet In […]
Girls, Rube Goldberg & Beastie Boys: More Than Just Princesses [Video]
http://youtu.be/UFpe3Up9T_g This is brilliant. From GoldieBlox: We’re GoldieBlox, a toy company out to show the world that girls deserve more choices than dolls and princesses. We believe that femininity is strong and girls will build the future — literally. Our founder, Debbie Sterling, is a Stanford engineer who decided last year that girls need more […]
An EPIC Hip Hop History of Human Civilization [Music Video]
The history of “modern” mankind as rapped by Dan Bull, with visuals from Civilization. I’m a big fan of Dan Bull, and IMHO, this is the best thing he ever released so far. [Dan Bull]
‘Sikh Captain America’ Walks the Streets of New York [Video]
Vishavjit Singh was born in Washington, D.C. but moved with his family to New Delhi, India, when he was very young. He now resides back in America – in New York City – and makes his living as an editorial cartoonist, while also “documenting the thrills and travails of real-life Sikhs in the aftermath of 9/11 […]
What do you Go For in a Girl? [Video]
This is fantastic. Please watch the video before leaving a comment. Oh, and this applies to you ladies as well, what do you go for in a guy? Watch the video. Warning: Video contains a few inappropriate words. [Roundhouse London]
QUESTION: Which Books Have YOU Re-Read Time and Time Again??
Yesterday, as I was browsing various sites in my favorite RSS reader, I stumbled on a post on IO9 asking their readers which books they kept re-reading again and again throughout the years. For me, among all the books that I have in my collection, I’d say that there are three series that stand out […]
The New Ms. Marvel is a Teenage Muslim Fangirl from Jersey!
Writer G. Willow Wilson is helming the next generation of Ms. Marvel comics and young Kamala Khan will take over for Carol Danvers. Khan is a Pakistani teenage girl living in New Jersey, and she and her family are Muslims. She’s also a fangirl. Khan is a member of the Carol Corps., a “a real-life […]
Internet Archive Hit by Fire
The offices of the Internet Archive project have been badly hit by a fire. Appropriately enough, no data was lost, but staff are appealing for donations to help replace damaged equipment. The project is best known for its WayBack Machine, a tool that archives copies of web pages over time, aiming to keep track of […]
The Star Wars Gangsta Rap is Already 13 Years Old! [Video]
I remember when the original version of this song/video came out in 2000, I watched it over, and over, and over again. Back then, Youtube didn’t exist, and the video was in flash format on newground.com. I’ve included both the revamped (above) and original version (below) to share the nostalgia with you guys. We’ve got […]