Random House released a statement this afternoon confirming that fantasy author Anne McCaffrey has passed away at age 85. Reports say that she suffered a stroke in her home in Ireland. McCaffrey is best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. She began her career in 1967 with the novel Restoree, and was rumored to […]
Here’s a direct translation of a to-do list that was discovered inside a small notebook that Leonardo Da Vinci’s apparently carried everywhere back in 1490. [NPR]
TLC, the television station known for reality shows of “personal stories,” is taking on a new topic next month: geek dating. Geek Love follows something that is becoming a staple at conventions: speed dating. In this case, the cameras were at New York Comic Con, where the setup for speed dating is pretty conventional aside […]
The Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen (or GISHWHES) is the brainchild of Misha Collins, best known as the actor playing Castiel on the television show Supernatural. Or maybe you saw him on that SyFy original movie about Stonehenge. Or perhaps his tweets, which are definitely some of the more entertaining for […]
The second season of Game Of Thrones will premiere in Spring 2012. [via HBO]
Ever wonder what it would look like if Dali animated “Alice in Wonderland”? Well, he did, sort of. He painted some of it, anyway. [Via io9]
Not sure if it’s too early to put out geeky Christmas things but this 8-bit version of the classic tune by English electronic artist Superpowerless, who just released his new album called Monsters, is catchy nonetheless. What do you think GAS readers, is it to early for Christmas, or do you say bring on the […]
Artist Robert Burden spent over 1000 hours of working time to complete this massive 72″ x 132″ oil on canvas painting of the thundercats, and the only word that comes to my mind after watching this is: wow, amazing! [Via Topless Robot]
Apparently, as a woman, if you want to be taken seriously in technology, you need to stop reffering yourself as a “girl.” Ok there’s actually a lot more to this than just calling yourself a “girl”, but the basic idea is there. Do you agree? Disagree? Start by watching the video and then let us […]
As of right now, if you visit Tumblr you won’t find the typical stream of animated gifs, blog posts, and videos – but rather a page of big gray CENSOR bars. Tumblr is drawing attention to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which is being discussed today in a hearing in the U.S. House judiciary […]