A group designed to bring cultural creatives together has deigned today to be the start of National Day of Unplugging. The group wants people to pledge that from sundown tonight until sundown tomorrow, you’ll give up electronic gadgetry. The ethos of the event is clearly stated: Do you have multiple cell phones? Take your ipad […]
Spoken word poet Shane Koyczan has created a wonderful, beautiful, emotional roller coaster of words speaking about his time he and his friends were bullied in school. He enlisted the help of numerous other artists to help him bring his words to life and the result is positively chilling — with an emphasis on “positive.” […]
Gary Gale is a geo technologist, a geographer – a “self professed geek with a life”. Hailing from London, his realm of geekdom centers around maps. His “Vaguely Rude Place Names of the World” exhibits his geek-level passion for cartography in having collated some of the world’s cities that have rather…amusing names. At least in […]
The man who made one of the most popular TV and movie technologies work has died at the age of 96. Petro Vlahos did not invent “bluescreening” but was responsible for making it work smoothly. The technique, known colloquially as chroma key compositing, is now widely used for special effects, both in a genuine attempt […]
Yeah, I know, we’ve posted something similar a few weeks back, but this alphabet is actually a lot cooler since the designer assigned each letter of the alphabet, both in lower and upper case, to different superheroes or supervillains. [Mike BaBoon | Via LS]
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Finding the right Valentine’s Day card can be a tricky sport. With so many ways to express your undying devotion to your lady love or favorite mountain man, what is the best way to truly say, “I love you?” Well, don’t fret! The Epitome of Comedy’s Never Ending Dick Jokes has a cache of nerdy […]
While every region has its own particularities when it comes to food that could eventually lead you to a heart attack, here in Quebec we’ve got something called “poutine,” and amongst poutines, the Heart Attack from Poutineville is the Queen of all poutines. You see, the Heart Attack is a 15-pound mess of fries, chicken, […]
Next up in our series about geeking up Valentine’s Day, here we have a collection of awesome Valentine cards from Etsy. Why just say “I love you” when you can express your love in geekier ways? Click on the caption to visit the store listing! I wish I was your derivative so I could lie […]
On January 28, 1986, NASA Challenger mission STS-51-L ended in tragedy when the shuttle exploded 73 seconds after takeoff. On board was physicist Ronald E. McNair, who was the second African American to enter space. But first, he was a kid with big dreams in Lake City, South Carolina. [Storycorps | Via Neatorama]