(Click image to embiggen.) Things you’ll look for right away: WALL-E, Bender Bending Rodriguez, Daleks, c3PO. Things you’ll see before all of those: R2D2, Rosie, Sonny. If you need an even larger version, check it out here at 1450×987. [Hopewell Studios via G.TDW]
This video is so old that Billy Corgan, Dave Matthews and Moby still had hair. Also, people knew who they were. Coolio shows up, which seems as though it bears mentioning. Watch as the world discovers email, chat, and Twinkie haiku. The video also warns that the World Wide Web is filled with naughty material, and […]
Examine any internet forum or blogs and their comment sections and you’ll find countless people with a loyalty to one brand or another that get very agitated by any criticism. Now researchers have suggested consumers may effectively be mixing up their own self-image with that of the brand. A research project involving staff in Illinois, […]
Facebook fan Joe Adams brought this awesomeness to our attention (thanks, Joe!)–it’s a life-sized mirrored replica of the TARDIS, and depending on the viewing angle, it can nearly disappear into its surroundings. Mark Wallinger, he creator of “Time and Relative Dimensions in Space 2001,? the piece’s official title, says: “I have always been interested in how we […]
Social networking and mobile phones have been blamed by some for fuelling last week’s riots in the United Kingdom. But now police say they were able to use the technology to head off attacks at high-profile targets. While some of the less academically gifted rioters published their intentions on Twitter or Facebook, some ringleaders communicated […]
Here’s a cool thing: this is the two-page spread from Bongo Comics’ Futurama/Simpsons Infinitely Secret Crossover Crisis. (Click the pic for a larger version.) Check out Mrs. Krebapple with Zapp Brannigan. They were practically drawn for each other. [G.TDW]
Ernest Cline’s reportedly awesome Ready Player One released today, and geeks of a particular variety will be happy to learn that Wil Wheaton–Evil Wil Wheaton himself–is reading the audiobook version. If you haven’t heard about Ready Player One yet, here’s a brief description and the book trailer: At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible […]
Richard Dawkins wrote The Selfish Gene in 1976 to present his theory of gene-centered evolution. In the 35 years since its publication, The Selfish Gene has been widely hailed as a revolutionary text in the field, and because of Dawkins’ popularity (or infamy, if you prefer) has remained a well-sold title, rolling out well over […]
Those 8-bit reworks are so hot right now.* These posters are from fashionary, where you can purchase any of these (plus several others shown on the site) printed on heavy-weight matte paper, which is presumably quite fabulous. When I see 8-bit figures that are elongated like this, I’m reminded of Interplay’s “Out of This World.” […]
Presented without further comment, a photograph of literary and comics legends Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman. [starrie]