Say what you will about Steampunk having gone mainstream, I’m always happy seeing artists get some great recognition! SkynzNHydez creator Ian Finch-Field created the arm piece worn by The Biebs in this latest photo shoot. The designer is limiting his run to 10, for the low low price of $2,700 CAD (is that even real […]
Our friends at Break have just released this funny music video showcasing some of the greatest staches from the recent history of humanity, all of this to promote the Movember cause. So, anyone among you guys helping the cause by getting an epic moustache this month? Thanks Matt!
Amazon has confirmed the details of its Kindle “lending library” for Amazon Prime subscribers. It’s a neat feature, though not enough to be the sole reason to subscribe. The library of books available to “borrow” is around 5,000 titles of which more than 100 are either currently on the New York Times Bestsellers list or […]
Valve and Dark Horse have joined forces to bring us a hardcover edition of comics: over two hundred pages of story and awesome new art in three fan-favorite series. Included: Team Fortress, Portal and Left 4 Dead. These are new stories, including origins and history, for Valve’s greatest games. What’s not to love? Check out some of […]
The world’s first regular high-definition television broadcast took place 75 years ago. Of course it wasn’t 720 lines, but it was arguably the birth of what we know as television today. The broadcast came from Alexandra Palace (pictured) in London on November 2nd, 1936. It came seven years after the first broadcasts aimed at a […]
Some of you might be runners. Others might wonder why on earth you would want to run if nothing’s chasing you. Here’s a race for all of you! Run For Your Lives is part 5k race, part obstacle course, part zombie apocalypse training ground. Taking place in cities across the U.S. next year (currently Atlanta, […]
Tomorrow is Wednesday and that means new comic book day! I recently had a friend tell me he is giving up smoking, and using all this cigarette money on comics. I told him he’d still need to come up with more money for all the titles he likes to read. Luckily this will be a […]
It was just over two centuries ago that the global population was 1 billion — in 1804. But better medicine and improved agriculture resulted in higher life expectancy for children, dramatically increasing the world population, especially in the West. As higher standards of living and better health care are reaching more parts of the world, […]
Just because there won’t be any more Harry Potter movies doesn’t mean that you can’t enjoy a rousing game of Quidditch – or at least Muggle Quidditch, the real sport based on the fictional one. And if you’re interested in serious Quidditch teams, look no farther than the International Quidditch Association, the governing body founded […]
Thirty days and thirty nights of literary abandon began today for aspiring novelists participating in National Novel Writing Month. Launched in 1999, NaNoWriMo is an annual challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days. Last year, over 200,000 people signed up, writing 2,872,682,109 words. Of course, you can write a novel whenever you want to, […]