The Super Mario Bros. theme performed in a minor key makes it sound super sad. But have you ever wondered why songs played in a major key sound happy and those in a minor key sound sad? Apparantly, it’s the result of “cultural conditioning.” When we listen to tunes we rely heavily on our memory […]
Comic by Grant Snider of Incidental Comics. [Source: INCIDENTAL COMICS | Follow “Incidental Comics” on Twitter | Like “Incidental Comics” on Facebook]
Depending when Marty visits Hill Valley from Back to the Future, it might be a frontier town, an idyllic 1950s neighborhood, a sleek 21st-century metropolis, or a dystopian alternate-universe hellhole. This video allows Hill Valley to inhabit all those modes at once, with four screens simultaneously depicting past (distant and recent), present, and future. “Welcome […]
From Gary Turk: I thought I would try and recreate Google’s autocomplete feature in the real world using the public. I wanted to see if people are really as similar and predictive as google’s search results would have us believe. [Gary Turk]
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A fantastic fan film based on The Witcher, one of the greatest games ever made. Starring Maul Cosplay as Geralt. [Erika Rodgers]
Mozilla has abandoned work on a Firefox operating system. The system was first developed for smartphones and then repositioned for connected devices such as smart TVs. The Firefox OS project started back in 2011 with the idea of making a completely open mobile operating system that would make it easier for developers to make apps. […]
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A chart by artist Mike D. Monjo that that takes a look at various types of swords and what they might tell about their owners. [Source: Mike D. Monjo]
Written and Directed by Brent Bonacorso, The Narrow World is a short sci-fi flick that tells the story of a massive alien that arrives on Earth and heads over to Los Angeles, peacefully. The whole thing is filmed a little Neil Blomkamp-style, and I quite like the approach the director took on this one. Check […]