In the past, I have been a vocal critic of the Church of Scientology. Like many of you, I saw the video of Tom Cruise, wide-eyed and cackling, talking about how only Scientologists know what to do when they pass a car wreck. It made me pray to God that, should I actually be involved […]
By Mark O’Neill With the untimely tragic death of Heath Ledger, movie industry watchers are predicting that the profits of the upcoming Batman movie, The Dark Knight, will ultimately go through the roof. The release of the new Batman posters, showing Ledger as the Joker, has the actor “gruesomely made-up” and there was a lot […]
By Mark O’Neill If, like me, you enjoy your daily dose of Dilbert, then you’ll be pleased to hear that he has gone all widgety on us. Dilbert’s daddy, Scott Adams, has produced free widgets of varying sizes which show the current Dilbert strip (in color!) and you can put the widget on your website […]
Last year, the MPAA released a study claiming that 44% of all illegal movie downloads via P2P networks could be directly linked to college students with high-speed network access. Using that report, the MPAA then coerced many college campuses into installing a P2P-monitoring toolkit on their networks. This program reports back to the MPAA directly, […]
By Mark O’Neill Now this is talent I wish I had! A Chinese boy who couldn’t afford his own Hasbro Transformers toy decided to make his own – out of a Kentucky Fried Chicken cardboard box! He was apparently inspired after watching the recent movie. Just follow the link to see how he put […]
By Mark O’Neill I would consider myself to be a fairly serious Star Wars fan but as usual, I’ve been reminded that there are some fans even more hardcore out there. This guy has made himself a R2-D2 model and placed it at the back of his car, X-Wing fighter style! Sweeeet!
By Ilya Kochanov Contributor, [GAS] My article on arrogant Mac fans made as little impact as I predicted it would. It seems like the whole community has decided to fight back against my discriminatory work with a movie dedicated solely to the culture behind owning said brand of computer. Agreed, there are sub-cultures for almost […]
By Brian Boyko [GAS] Contributor I’ve got a second quick clip from “Makers” my documentary about do-it-yourselfers at the Austin Maker Faire. This five minute movie deals with a live-sized Mouse Trap. As in the game, Milton Bradley’s Mouse Trap. While you can find the standard definition of the video embedded below, if you’ve got […]
By Marco Jardim Contributing Writer, [GAS] As my first article here in GAS, I thought would be a good idea to pinpoint the differences between blogging in “technologically-updated” places of the world and one that is several months behind all others. If there are any Australians reading this article, they will probably relate to parts […]
By Lyle Bateman Contributing Writer, [GAS] From a perspective of some six centuries later, it’s pretty easy to see the revolution inherent in the idea of movable type and the printing press. Once a hugely expensive endeavor confined to the scriptoriums of only super-wealthy patrons, book production was suddenly a fraction of the cost. Books, once highly […]