Coolest Holiday Phone Video Ever
If nothing caught your fancy on our list of different things you can do to geekify your holidays, here’s something that ought to get your guests amazed and make your holiday party the talk of the decade. [Via [H]]
Category Archives: Culture
Geeky Christmas Trees [Pics]
Even if you don’t celebrate Christmas, it’s kind of hard to avoid the decorations. Of course, after seeing your millionth tree-topping star, strand of silver garland, and candy cane reindeer ornament, the trimmed trees all start to look the same. So here’s a few that stand out from the pack. O Christmas tree, thy hardware […]
Yard work and self-loathing the trends for social networkers
Facebook users didn’t seem to have a great 2009 according to data the firm has just released. The biggest trends among status updates included celebrity deaths, swine flu, and general depression. You’ll probably be seeing reports on the data in a variety of outlets today, but many of them are incorrect. The phrases and topics […]
Five Ways to Geek it Up This Holiday Season
Yes, it really is that time of year again. For many of us the season means withdrawal: less game time, less computer time, less iPod time. And even though it’s getting harder and harder to get disconnected from the virtual world, still, geek-less living can be hard on any of us. So why not Geekify […]
Living Inside a Full-Sized Lego House
Remember James May’s Toy Stories show we told you about back in November? Well, at the time of the post, 2 episodes remained to be aired, including one where the show’s crew built a full-sized lego house. That episode was recently shown on UK’s BBC Two, and some clips appeared online shortly after, showing Mr. […]
“Avatar” Grosses $242.5 Million on Opening Weekend!
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] The title really says it all, but there are some other interesting details to share. Avatar, the big hit movie that has everyone talking, really scored big time as opening weekends go. According to the latest numbers by 20th Century Fox, Avatar earned $77.0 million in America and $165.5 million in the […]
Monday Evening Humor: King Leonidas vs. Chuck Norris
Some interesting facts about Chuck Norris: When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris doesn’t read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants. There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Chuck Norris has allowed to live. Outer […]
Facebookers rage against the musical machine
The 1992 release Killing In The Name of by Rage Against The Machine was the best selling song in the UK last week. Why that came to be is an example of several ways in which the internet affects cultural life in 2009. For many years there was a long-standing tradition in the UK of […]
Tap Dancing to the Super Mario Bros. Theme
[Via Kotaku]
Don’t Step in the Hot Mag.ma!
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] When social media first emerged, it was more or less a chaotic system where the most popular content floated around through many, many blogs and websites. Nowadays, though, a majority of that content is hosted on the “big names” of video storage: YouTube, Vimeo, and others. This makes […]