10 Things That Make You A 90s Kid [Video]
From Power Rangers to Pokemon, here are 10 things that make you a child of the 90s. [AllTime10s]
Category Archives: Culture
Proof That You Have Absolutely No Concept Of Time
Time to put a few things into perspective: Did you know that Cleopatra was born closer to the date of the first lunar landing than the construction of the Great Pyramid? [BuzzFeedVideo]
A Brief History of Plural Word…S [Video]
All it takes is a simple S to make most English words plural. But it hasn’t always worked that way (and there are, of course, exceptions). John McWhorter looks back to the good old days when English was newly split from German — and books, names and eggs were beek, namen and eggru! [TEDeducation]
Breaking Bad: Badger’s Star Trek Script [Animated]
How did a pitch for an episode of Star Trek end up in this weekend’s premiere of Breaking Bad? Easy: Vince Gilligan had been telling the story of a pie-eating contest gone wrong aboard the Enterprise to the writers of Breaking Bad for as long as writer Peter Gould can remember. “Since probably the first season,” laughed […]
Snacks You’ll Probably Never Eat Again [Video]
Om nom nom nom. There’s almost nothing as good for breakfast as a big bowl of French? Toast Crunch. Yes, it’s true, they’re still available in Canada and my kids love them. Oh, and about that homemade Eco-Cooler recipe? It’s available here. [Buzzfeed Videos]
Star Wars Medley by Lindsey Stirling and Peter Hollens [Video]
This wraps up YouTube’s Geek Week, a sad moment but one we’ve chosen to end on a high note. Lindsey Stirling and Peter Hollens’ violin-and-vocal medley is the perfect tribute to all things geeky. They’re both well-known on YouTube and the web as excellent artists as well as geeks, and bringing them together for this […]
10 Incredible Things That Happen Every Second
By the the time you’ve read this, all 10 of these incredible things will have taken place… multiple times. [AllTime10s]
“Game Launch Rock,” or Why You Shouldn’t Buy a Console at Launch [Video]
Geek Week is full of gems. Take this School House Rock parody, for example. It mines nostalgia for fun and profit by using our beloved SHR memories to warn us against the pitfalls of the modern gaming industry. It’s catchy, familiar, and only a little depressing for those of us who paid $600 for a […]
I Just Wanna Be a Superhero [Video]
Who doesn’t want to be a superhero? YouTube’s SneakyZebra set Tim McMorris “I Just Want To Be A SuperHero” to footage shot this year at San Diego Comic Con to celebrate YouTube Geek Week (and as a follow-up to last month’s SDCC Cosplay Music Video). Can you name them all? Tell us who your favorite […]
Five Stages Of Fangirling
You learn something new every day! [OnlyLeighm | Via LS]