Roswell Watch is a Sci-Fi Geek’s Dream Come True

The Roswell watch has everything to please the sci-fi geek within us: Alien remains, the barren soil of a distant, unknown world, and the exploded gears of an unearthly aircraft. This watch is part of Romain Jerome’s Moon Dust DNA collection, and unfortunately, for geeks who have really deep pockets, only 9 units will be manufactured. Price and availability to be announced.

[Via A Blog to Read]



Dot Com Time Capsule: The Oldest Domains

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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 haven’t gotten hold of it yet.

The first university to snag a .edu address was Berkeley, followed by Purdue, UCLA, MIT, and Harvard.

It’s also kind of interesting to hop in a time capsule and see what apple.com looked like in 1997. And it was only ten years before that that the company registered the domain, three years after they registered the APPLE trademark (which, of course, they’ve been dilligent about defending ever since).

I may be older than the oldest .com, but I definitely had no idea what the Internet was in 1987.  Do any of you remember these early websites? I for one would be interested to know what ibm.com looked like in the mid-eighties.

Signs: Office Geeks in Love

Thanks to my new-found pal Patrick Dion, French blogger extraordinaire, I stumbled on Signs, a simple short film about love and communication in the cold, harsh world that is the life of a single, friendless office geek. My guess is that the ladies among you will particularly appreciate this. It’s a great way to start the weekend with a smile on your face and a tear in your eye.

Asteroid Nearly Misses Earth Monday

At 5:45 a.m. (EST) Monday, an asteroid (DD45) with a diameter of 60 to 150 feet nearly crashed into Earth. The space rock sped past the planet at a distance of 49,000 miles, about one-fifth of the distance separating us from the moon and only two times as far as some satellites currently orbiting Earth.

“This was pretty darn close,” said astronomer Timothy Spahr of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Wednesday.

It seems the size of this asteroid is similar to one that blasted over 800 square miles of forested land in Siberia in 1908. DD45 was discovered only a few weeks ago by Australian scientists, who concluded right away that the object was no danger to our planet.

It’s frightening to think that an object with a diameter as small as 60 feet could vaporize over 800 miles of land. With only a few weeks of warning, do you think our governments could do something in time about a threat determined to be “risky?”

[Via AP]

Star Trek 2009 Full Theatrical Trailer

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 crew venturing boldly where no man has gone before. The film is a chronicle of the early days of James T. Kirk and his fellow USS Enterprise crew members.

[Via Latinoreview]