Some of you (like myself) may remember actress Erika Alexander from Living Single where she played Maxine Shaw. Back in December 2011, Dark Horse released her and Tony Puryear’s (Eraser) Concrete Park under its “Dark Horse Presents” series. Now, because of critical buzz, Dark Horse will give Concrete Park a 5-issue miniseries, starting in 2014! [via Bleeding Cool]
Back in early 2012, Anthony Rosner released a short documentary called IRL about how he put an end to his World of Warcraft addiction after losing 6 years of his life to the game. IRL 2.0 in moderation is the sequel to the first film. IRL 2.0 In Moderation is a short documentary about playing […]
http://youtu.be/0sJDQt3XwSw It’s easy to see here why Ashton Kutcher was cast to play Steve Jobs. Way back in 1978, Steve was a young (hirsute!) guy just beginning to see the first hints of success. Though the actual interview Steve is prepping for here is no longer available, the timing suggests that he was invited to […]
From the unicorn stampede (with shark action) to a 1/3 scale wooden model of the Russian space station MIR, to people wearing red noses everywhere… this is Burning Man! Thanks Mark! [Mark Day Comedy]
Muppet Wikia Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock first aired in 1983, introducing us to the show’s five main Fraggle characters — Red, Gobo, Mokey, Boober, and Wembley — and a large secondary cast that includes Doc, Uncle Traveling Matt, the Ancients, the Doozers, various Fraggle townspeople, the Cave Fraggles, the Gorgs, and Marjory the talking trash […]
http://youtu.be/f__qNnj65Ts We’re getting closer and closer to settling on it that it only seems right to learn a little more in 10 amazing facts about the planet Mars. [All Time 10s]
In case you still need to be convinced on how awesome a person and a scientist Bill Nye is, I strongly encourage you to watch this clip. Not only was this guy one of my role model back when I was a kid, but he still is today, alongside with Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan, and […]
http://youtu.be/XYzXqrChQ6A We can’t tell you how Iron Man’s suit works, or how the Hulk’s pants stay in shape, but we can tell you 10 little-known facts about Marvel. [Alltime10s]
I’m old enough to remember this commercial, but too young to understand at the time what D&D was, exactly. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, both former Napoleonic wargamers, developed D&D in 1974. The game was based on one of Gygax’s earlier game developments, Chainmail, and incorporated rules and structure from the pair’s experience with wargaming. […]
Here is an infographic listing 50 things a geek should apparently know. The level of knowledge required to have a perfect score is a little broad, but I was able to score 37. What about you guys? [Source: Virtualhosting.com]