Alex Albrecht, who will soon find himself with a bit more free time when Diggnation ends Dec 30, directed this four-minute fanfilm, Voltron: The End. It’s pretty impressive for a short, so here’s hoping the folks working on the official Voltron film follow suit and don’t muck the whole thing up. When a man regains […]
Finally! I’ve charted the very first accurate map of the entire fantasy world. Nerds will rejoice! …Or become enraged! [Via Dan Meth]
Speaking of Steve Urkel (Jaleel White), have you guys seen what he looks like today? I just love this song. [Via]
One mid-west hardware store is taking the initiative in getting you prepared for the coming zombie apocalypse. They have all your basics on hand for zombie-proofing your home and outfitting yourself for those late night zombie hunts: generators, nail guns, and sledgehammers. But they’ve also cornered in on another market, delaying your decaying zombie body. […]
Sony Europe has launched a webseries apparently intended to celebrate geek culture along with Sony gadgets. Because, you know, geeks like gadgets. They also can’t talk to girls, and probably wear pocket protectors. So if this is what we know about geeks, and we also know about girls, I wonder what geeky girls are like. […]
Less than 10% of plastic trash is recycled — compared to almost 90% of metals — because of the massively complicated problem of finding and sorting the different kinds. Frustrated by this waste, Mike Biddle has developed a cheap and incredibly energy efficient plant that can, and does, recycle any kind of plastic. [TED]
Seems climate change has forced Bigfoot away from his traditionally chilly home; the elusive (but totally real) beast of legend has had to resort to extremes, apparently, as he was recently spotted strolling along the surface of the Sun. See? Alan Friedman snapped this shot of an oddly familiar-looking solar prominence. [A] prominence [is] an eruption of ionized gas […]
We don’t know much about this cake, except that it’s an edible model of Serenity and therefore awesome. She’s a mighty fine ship. Erm, cake. [mechanicalbiscuit via reddit]
What do you get when you add Star Wars to any movie, cartoon, or TV series/sitcom? Some interesting Photoshopped mash-ups, where Yoda is a high-school show choir singer and Darth Vader really enjoys blowing up hospitals in Gotham City. This is the challenge Freaking News posed to their readers, and below are some of the entries they received. […]
A Doctor Who version of Ke$ha’s Tik Tok, but minus Ke$ha. (Can we stop using the $ now? Please??) Speakerwiggin does a decent enough job here, and though he falls a little short of on-key in the chorus, it’s fun if you’re a Whovian. If you want the lyrics, you can find ’em here. Enjoy! Warning: […]