The Hugo Awards are an annual awards ceremony honoring the very best in written science fiction and fantasy in different categories. The Hugo is named after Amazing Stories founder Hugo Gernsback The awards are presented each year by the World Science Fiction Society at the World Science Fiction Convention (WorldCon). In more recent years, the […]
Michael Anti (aka Jing Zhao,) a key figure in China’s new journalism, has been blogging from China for 12 years. Despite the control the central government has over the Internet — “All the servers are in Beijing” — he says that hundreds of millions of microbloggers are in fact creating the first national public sphere […]
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That’s right. A stunningly low proportion of only 16% Americans know what “the cloud” is, according to a national survey conducted by Wakefield Research, commissioned by Citrix. Other stunning statistics to come out of the survey are as follows: 29% of correspondents responded with a reference to an actual cloud, the sky or something related […]
It’s kind of sad that working and sleeping takes most of our time, while taking care of elders and children is way down the list. Everyone likes to blame the education system for the troubles we have with our kids, but overworked parents are often the problem… at least that’s what I think. Thoughts? The […]
An hilarious scene from the 16th episode of the eight season of Roseanne, where Leonard David (Johnny Galecki) tries to get his friend Jackie (Laurie Metcalf) off from the Internet. Have you noticed that Johnny Galecki still looks pretty much the same even after 16 years? [Via LS]
An awesome new cake by Chef JB Cada and Stephanie Santos from The Regali Kitchen. “I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall.” -Dream, in Brief Lives. [Source: The Regali Kitchen]
World of Warcraft is supposed to take place in a fantasy online universe without the national borders of the real world. But if you live in Iran, you’ve been banished. Blizzard has cut off access to players in the country, blaming United States trade sanctions. The company says it has recently tightened up its procedures […]
For those of you who haven’t heard yet, the Nintendo Power magazine was cancelled for good earlier this month. Oh the memories! Oh the nostalgia! So in honor of the magazine and the joy it brought to countless kids throughout the years, cartoonist Andy Kluthe and Andrew Bridgman have drawn this fitting homage that actually […]
I chanced upon this article where the author is spouting the benefits of getting ‘chipped’. And that’s exactly as Skynet-like as it sounds. He says that to avoid a Wall-E existence for the human race, we must all get chipped and start monitoring our health using accurate data from within our bodies themselves. He himself admits […]