On July 20th, the so-called Ocean X Team will be launching their third expedition to explore and analyze an anomaly on the floor of the Baltic Sea such as they have never seen before. And it just so happens to look like the Millennium Falcon. Peter Linberg and Dennis Asberg joined their diving forces in […]
A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to cross paths with Alex James and Sean May from Nerds with Guitars when they performed at the Launch Party for Hammer Comics in Hamilton, Ontario. After watching them perform, we swept them away from the raving fans to sit and chat. Alex and Sean met through […]
At Google’s I/O conference the giant company offered developers the chance to be the first to get their hands on the revolutionary Project Glass augmented reality devices in a Glass Explorer edition. The glasses are pretty incredible tech with some really intriguing possibilities, changing the way we share our personal experiences. From creating more realistic […]
Being the physics nerd I am, finding out that the announcement of the results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in the search for the Higgs Boson was going to be made in my city (Melbourne) at the High Energy Physics conference on the 4th of July, had me acting like quite the […]
I do credit a lot of my life skills to a wide variety of experiences, but a lot of them came from a strong background in Scouting. My former group was on the first episode of Discovery’s Canada’s Greatest Know-it-All challenging adult braggart Jack of all Trades to some of the more commonplace skills that […]
Great Scott! It is the Future!! Hold your horses there McFly, that image above is a simple but apparently effective photoshopping of the time console in the Back to the Future DeLorean. It is fake. Just like the one someone made two years ago that had everyone calling 2010 “The Future” Yesterday, this image was […]
If you weren’t already aware, you have a Facebook email address, ending in facebook.com. And now Facebook is attempting a full domination of the communication world, by swirling together SMS, IM and email into one big Facebook messaging system. They introduced a Facebook messaging app for smartphones, separate from the (crappy) Facebook app, in order […]
The recent film The Muppets didn’t wow the boxoffice but it did spark enough nostalgia to bring back a Muppet Show on TV. Maybe not your TV, but the people in the UK will be treated to No Strings Attached, a Jim Henson production greenlit by the BBC. The show will be quite similar in […]
So after months of speculation about what it will include, Apple finally released an iOS 6 preview to get the Mac fans salivating at what’s to come “this fall”. I’ve finally had the time to sit down and take a look at all the new goodies to behold. You can view their full list of […]
It seems forever ago, but it was only a few short weeks since Diablo 3 invaded the computer world and proved that even Blizzard couldn’t be ready for day launch problems. Instantly, Code 37 jokes (a common login error related to server connection issues) were the norm and the internet was pretty mad about it. […]