What Your Frames Say [Pic]
So nerds and geeks that don eye-corrective accessories, what is it your spectacles indicate about your nature? Agree, disagree? Love, hate? [by Reading Glasses Shopper | via GraphJam]
Category Archives: Culture
Avengers Scratch Off Lotto [Pic]
On the way back from A-Kon in Dallas, TX my I came across this gem at a gas station in Tyler. Figures Hawkeye would be our big winner, my friend scored a whole $1.00. (Lindsey with her winning ticket).
This Guy Deserves a Pad on the Back
Don’t you love it when the world just works? This guy works at a restaurant part-time while doing his degree. A semi-regular customer – who this guy had only talked to about 3-4 times about how the customer was doing an aeronautical engineering PhD – came in and left a package for him, telling him […]
Revealed: The Face of Twitter
In most walks of life, claiming that you could see Twitter’s face would have you locked up. Thankfully there is one situation where it is acceptable: academic research. Said visualization was the conclusion of a presentation I recently attended by Nello Cristianini, the Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bristol’s Department of Engineering […]
Justice League Movie Rumored to Be Back in Development
According to entertainment magazine Variety, DC has been working on getting their powerhouse superhero team to the big screen. The rumor is newcomer Will Beall has been hired to draft up the screen play. His work includes several episodes of Castle and a film about the Mafia versus the LAPD to debut this year. After […]
AMPED: A Future with Superhumans [Video]
Superhumans with neural implants may belong to the realm of science fiction for now. But the day is fast approaching when technology offers us abilities beyond our wildest dreams (or darker than our worst nightmares). PhD in Robotics and NYTimes best selling author Daniel H. Wilson had a conversation with us to discuss the near […]
Author Ray Bradbury Passes Away
Media outlets are reporting that author Ray Bradbury has passed away. The illustrious author, known for penning Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Martian Chronicles and many other stories, died in Los Angeles, CA at the age of 91. I had the honor of interviewing Bradbury years ago. He was an amazing man, […]
StartupBus: Building an App En Route to SXSW 2012 [Video]
Back in March, my pal Michael Tapp (Who shot some pretty awesome pictures for us at New York Comic Con) went to SXSW 2012. To go there, he hoped on board a StartupBus alongside a bunch of entrepreneurs, who all worked together during the 72-hour trip to build an app before they arrived at the […]
A Brief History of Video Games [Video]
An abridged history of video games in under three minutes. Made using only sounds, music and video from the video games themselves. Produced for Polygon.com by Reverse Enginears featuring P Sus. [polygon]
The Evolution of Anti-Video Game Bigotry Throughout the Ages [Comic]
[Source: Virtual Shackles]