Category Archives: Culture





Holy Crap that’s Awesome: Geek & Gamer Girls Music Video

Yeah, this is another one of those Caligornia Girls parodies… but this one is really, really cool. Apart from starring the four sexy geekettes from Team Unicorn, the video also features a rapping Seth Green, Battlestar Galactica’s Katee Sackhoff, and legendary comic book writer Stan Lee. Check it out:

Journalist publishes the 12,000th draft of history

A tech writer has put together a five-year history of the Iraq war. But James Bridle’s publication does not cover the military conflict: instead it’s a complete record of the Wikipedia page on the topic. The idea of the project, which Bridle describes as a “historiography”, is to highlight the effects caused by the fact […]

QUESTION: Are Atheists Really Smarter?

A dating website has implied that atheists are more educated or intelligent than religious people. But applying the rationality that is supposed to accompany atheist thought highlights some major caveats. It’s not often you can release a set of statistics comparing the reading levels of people of different religions and it be among the least […]

The British were playing D&D on Television in the 80s.

Here’s an odd one from the past. Around the same time that Double Dare was being shown in American households, British television had “Knightmare,” a game show where one contestant would play a “dungeoneer,” traveling through an animated dungeon of chromakey rooms. He would be guided by three other contestants, hunkered over a television screen, […]