Star Wars Arch-Nemeses
Yep, grooming Chewbacca would be quite a nightmarish job… and that’s why you need to hire the Galactic Groomers corp. [Source: Doghouse diaries]
Category Archives: General
Baby Carrot Swears Revenge for Fallen Father [Comic]
[Source: FormalSweatpants]
President Obama’s Touching Homage to Spock
President Obama is a huge nerd, and regardless of your political allegiance, I think that his homage to Leonard Nimoy is indeed a fitting tribute. Via Vulture: “Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy. Leonard was a lifelong lover of the arts and humanities, a supporter of the sciences, generous with his […]
Mr. Spock Was Once a Teenage Outcast: Here’s His Advice to a Troubled Young Lady [Pic]
As I’m sure you all know by now, Leonard Nemoy has passed away earlier today. In honor of this great man, here’s some advice he sent to a troubled young lady in the May 1968 issue of the teen magazine FaVE. (second part below, in the middle column.) [Source: My Star Trek Scrapbook | Via]
An Affordable 3D-Printed Arm: Help Kids in Need Get One for FREE!
Check out this awesome project where college kids at the University of Central Florida are building 3D printed arms and giving them to kids in need for free. Insurance companies usually do not pay for prosthetic arms for children since they cost over $40,000 and the kids outgrow them in a period of about 6 […]
Photomath: The App That Does Your Math For You
I look at the Photomath app, and I get very sad. Not that it will make future generations stupid or any such nonsense. No, I am mad that it didn’t exist while I struggled through algebra. That was essentially a semester I spent barely treading water, and knowing this would exist one day would’ve eased […]
Biocomputer Music: Musical Mold Prepares To Perform
A fungus is to duet with a piano at an upcoming arts festival. The Physarum polycephalum mold responds to music in what the pianist calls a creative way. It’s the work of Professor Eduardo Miranda, who specialises in the crossover between music and science, His previous work includes a collaboration between a traditional string quartet […]
10 Essential Animated Movies That Are Absolutely Not for Kids
The wonderful thing about the medium of animation is, even though it caters to kids visually, animated movies can be aimed at adults and children. Not all animated films feature cute, fuzzy animals getting into hilarious hi-jinx. Some feature them being ripped apart and raging war against one another, like Watership Down. Something I touched […]
RIP Leonard Nimoy (1931 – 2015)
It is with great sadness that I have to announce that Mr. Spock, also known as Leonard Nimoy in this reality, has passed away this morning in his home in Bel Air, California, from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 83 years old. Apart from his acting career, Nimoy was also a poet, a director, […]
Top 5 Games Within a Game
The Smartest of us call it “Gameception.” It is when you are playing a video game only to stumble on another and different video game INSIDE that other video game. Often times, you can play it, too. Yes, you can play the video game that is inside the video game you are playing. That is […]