By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] TG Daily brings us a list of the 100 oldest .com, .org, .net, and .edu domains. The first, symbolic.com, was registered 24 years ago this month. Some unsurprising names also topping the list are xerox.com, ibm.com, and intel.com. Stargate.com is 25th, but it looks like the science fiction fans […]
It may or may not be the longest slide in the world… I don’t really care. I just want to ride this thing… badly! [Via Gizmodo]
Yep folks, the full theatrical trailer for the new Star Trek movie has just been released. Enjoy! From director J.J. Abrams (“Mission: Impossible III,” “Lost” and “Alias”) and screenwriters Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman (“Transformers,” “MI: III”) comes a new vision of the greatest space adventure of all time, “Star Trek,” featuring a young, new […]
A funny clip promoting the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Thanks Georgina!
Created by filmmaker Bruce Branit, the award winning short “World Builder” paints the story of a strange man who builds a world using holographic tools for the woman he loves. The whole movie was shot in just a single day, but it took a whopping 2 years of post-production time to bring the production to […]
If you’re the kind of person who has trouble solving a Rubik’s Cute, then the following will probably turn you quite mad. The Petaminx is a face turning dodecahedral puzzle with 4 slices per face. It was completely custom-made by Jason Smith of PuzzleForge.com, who will be putting it for auction later this week on […]
Two former Google employees, Bindu Reddy and Arvind Sundararajan, have launched a private beta of a new recommendation site named likaholix. You can request a beta account from the site. It took 14 minutes for my invitation to hit my GMail account. The sign up process was quick and easy, and the site is pretty […]
By Brian Boyko Contributing Writer, [GAS] They call it “oilpunk” – a sort of “post-Steampunk” aesthetic, championing the designs of the early modern era (around 1920s/1930s) rather than the Victorian attributes of the “steampunker.” And what better homage to the era of the speakeasy than a bar? Yes, the fireballs generated by the twin propane-fueled […]
Don’t believe me? Check this out: Now just reading what’s in the can makes me want to puke, but the true horror comes only after reading the nutrition facts on the back label: Cholest. 3500mg – 1170% of your daily recommended value. Yum. [Via Geekologie]
Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — an endless floating waste of plastic trash. Now he’s drawing attention to the growing, choking problem of plastic debris in our seas.