Byย Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] If you are familier with iRobot, the people who make the everybody’s favorite robotic vacuum cleaner, you know they are famous for their hacker spirit. ย There’s even a hackable version of the Roomba to support the community of tinkerers who have gathered around it. Well iRobot has been doing […]
23 years ago, William Shatner appeared on SNL to say this: Last night, Chris Pine (Kirk) and Zachary Quinto (Spock) did a quick appearance on the show to ask long time Star Trek fans to stop harassing them, proving that even 23 years, trekkies still haven’t learned anything. [Via]
In order to promote their new Star Trek glasses, Burger King has launched a new ad campaign featuring various techniques to help you defend yourself against “Kingons.” Now the Kingons (not to be confused with Klingons), are a race of evil alien mascots seeking dominion over dilithium, an element that is apparently present in BK’s […]
Slash000, for your unearthly patience, we salute you! For those of you who don’t get it, start by reading this, then look at the date on the receipt. Edit 07/09/2010: And now this. [Via]
Produced by Christopher Hendryx as his thesis for the department of Computer Animation at the Ringling College of Art + Design, Oxygen is a really cool 3D animated short featuring Oxygen as our main hero, with various other elements thrown in as supporting characters. Now, if all chemistry classes where this interesting, I guess it […]
In the following video, The Onion News Network reports that long time Star Trek fans feel the new movie betrays what Star Trek is all about. For instance, it seems that some trekkies are outraged at the fact that Klingon dialogues in the movie are subtitled, because it allows the Klingons to be understood by […]
It’s an all-out typeface-off in the sequel to the Font Conference.
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] So Google is getting in on the whole “going green” thing by foregoing the “noisy mowers that run on gasoline and pollute the air” in favor of renting a bunch of goats to chew on the lawn at the company headquarters in Mountain View. Two hundred of them hang […]
James T. Kirk is the new kid at Starfleet Academy and he’s got no friends… until… Thanks Kate!
The original version isn’t really entertaining, but now that I’ve seen this one, I have to get myself a Slap Chop right now!