Science fiction and animation are a natural combination. It’s a hell of a lot cheaper to draw an alien landscape covered in space ships than it is to create one in a studio. Too often forgotten as just “kid’s stuff”, there have been some truly excellent cartoons that combine science fiction and animation in absolutely […]
When Brazil’s Roberto Carlos struck a soccer ball from 35 meters against France and it appeared to change direction in mid-air on its way into the goal, the phrase “defied physics” was uttered by numerous pundits. Now physicists say it did nothing of the sorts. Four French scientists (Guillaume Dupeux, Anne Le Goff, David Quéré […]
You might notice I won’t be posting as much in the next few days, but it’s for a very geeky cause: I’ll be going to Dragon*Con! This is the third year that I’ve gone to the Atlanta-based fan convention, and every year I experience, well, something altogether different. When that many costumed geeks descend on […]
So you might have noticed I’ve got a little thing for the Middle Ages. Be it Arthur or Charlemagne, Margery Kempe or Marie de France, the period incorrectly referred to the Dark Ages has been a lifelong inspiration for me. In fact, I went through graduate school doing little else than perusing old manuscripts in […]
Had a bad day and need your ration of cute? Here’s Wicket from “Return of the Jedi,” in knitted stuffed animal form. This Wicket (and others like him) are called “Amigurumi,” which is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small stuffed animals. Our friends over at GeekDad pointed us to other geeky Amigurumi, including […]
In a parallel universe, Belgian actor Patrick Bauchau played Captain Picard. I’m basing that claim on a 23 year old memo that surfaced, on Paramount letterhead, written by John Ferraro, who was then a young development executive in Paramount’s syndicated television division, to John Pike, president of Paramount’s TV division at the time. The memo, […]
It’s important to note that no one knows for sure if this actually comes from Mrs. Roosevelt, and the quote itself is often attributed to Admiral Hyman G. Rickover. Though Admiral Rickover was overhead speaking these words, he never claimed to be the original author, saying on the 28th November 1959’s edition of The Saturday […]
Starcraft Mashups How do you make Starcraft 2 even more awesome? Mash Final Fantasy 7 style gameplay and music into it, that’s how! Final Fantasy 0.2 is a Starcraft 2 mod that uses the Battlemap editor to create a radically different gameplay experience. Other radically different gameplay modes include a first person shooter, a 3rd […]
When I was a kid, cheese was a no-no. Unlike the typical American family, the only cheese we had was of the soy variety; my mother was allergic, and my father just thought it wasn’t nutritious enough to be a mainstay in our refrigerator. So, in those rare visits to family members, especially during the […]
By Sterling “Chip” Camden Contributing Writer, [GAS] Leo Laporte, the famed technogeek personality and self-proclaimed web whore, has shuttered his Google Buzz account after Buzz mysteriously dropped fifteen of his posts over about two weeks. Laporte considers this event a wake-up call to the transitory nature of social media content that’s hosted by someone else, […]