If you’ve watched Western movies you’ll know that most of the time there’s a predictable pattern to shootouts: the villain draws his gun first, but the hero shoots quicker and wins (before blowing the smoke from the tip of the barrel.) Ask most people why this is and they’ll guess it’s to tell a moral […]
Now this is something frivolous, fantastic, and futuristic that I can really get behind. According to CNN, London-based design company, Seymourpowell, has proposed a project for floating hotels, called AirCruise. Essentially, the idea is to travel in the form of a futuristic airship/luxury hotel, designed to float from destination to destination rather than zoom at […]
As part of an interview for PBS’s upcoming airings of “Macbeth” and “Hamlet” in April, Captain Jean-Luc Picard, aka Sir Patrick Stewart (or is that the other way around?) gives us his views on twitter and the Internet, and explains why he is afraid to start “gaming”. [Via Thenextweb]
It’s Groundhog Day today in the world of meteorological superstitions. (In the world of multi-channel cable film networks, of course, it’s Groundhog Day every day.) But that’s just one example of the curious historical methods we use to guess what the weather will be, with mixed results. The basis of Groundhog Day is that if, […]
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] This is probably older than the internet, but we just discovered it the other day (via the hallowed “instant messenger” method) and figured it was worth a laugh or two. One thing I noticed after watching were the tags on the YouTube page for this clip. They include […]
As the saying goes, “There’s a flip side to everything,” and in the following video, Derek Sivers shows this is true in a few ways you might not expect. Ask [GaS]: We’d love to hear other similar anecdotes from you guys, so if you’ve got any, feel free to share them with us in the […]
It was International Data Privacy Day yesterday. That’s doesn’t appear to have led to any restaurant or bar discounts or formed the basis of an awesome themed party, but it did produce a series of events and speeches to promote the issue. The day is promoted by The Privacy Projects, an organization which researches and […]
DMs are the unsung heroes of tabletop RPGs. They get a bad reputation (sometimes deservingly) for being a little power hungry, often times controlling, and frequently heartless when it comes to playing games. But the truth is that every DM has their own style of DMing and their own approach to the game. Some like […]
File this under “strange but true.” Apparently one of PETA’s latest projects is an attempt to save Punxsutawney Phil from the cruel and unusual treatment of being forced to see his shadow (or not) every February 2. They believe that the ceremony is “traumatizing and stressful” for the groundhog, and that he should be replaced […]
Believe it or not, yesterday was a rather important day, and not just because of the big announcement (or the other big announcement). Aside from the hype and the craziness, January 27th is a surprisingly historic day for geeks. Personally, I got a little tired of reading about iPads—and increasingly amused by the bad name […]