The guys over at Penny Arcade have been working to bring Tycho and Gabe to “life” in an action-adventure game known as “On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness” and the preliminary trailer is a hoot: It will ostensibly run on…
We’ve previously discussed the lolcats Internet meme briefly here before, so I won’t go into its origins at the moment (citations for the development of said meme/macro/fad/”kitty pidgin” available here, here, here, here, here and here, if you’re interested). However,…
A small programming note for my dedicated readers: I just moved this blog over to WordPress version 2.2 since the version I was running (2.1.3) was vulnerable to a rather nasty cross-site scripting vulnerability. If you notice that anything is…
Ever wonder how Walt Disney World stays so clean, so spic-and-span? Turns out it’s actually built on top of enormous tunnels that whisk away garbage, convey employees to their destinations, deliver supplies to vendors and offer employees a respite from…
I know, I know, I abuse this crutch way too often, but the fact of the matter is that I’m busy almost all the time at work these days. As a small token of my continued affection, dear readers, please…
Ben Kenobi walks into a used car dealership and… Tell me, how much is the going rate for passage to Aldershot? *chuckle*
Have you seen the new Transformers “exclusive” trailer over on Yahoo! Movies yet? Proceed there posthaste or imperil your Official Geek Status and prepare to turn in your membership card, slide rule and protractor. Sweet.
What do you get when you congregate a bunch of medical doctors and scientists with little to keep themselves amused? You find out that Abraham Lincoln might have survived, had he had access to 21st century medical technology. Next up,…
The latest likely-to-get-signed-by-The-Decider-in-Chief border “reform” package looks likely to pass the House and Senate, a proposition that has conservatives and many libertarians hopping mad. Lest we be too quick to judge our Congresscritters, though, Rick Moran points out that we…
I didn’t want to laugh, quite frankly, at anything poking fun at United 93, the single best tribute Hollywood has managed to pay to the ordinary-men-turned-heroes of September 11th, but heaven help me, I couldn’t help laughing at United 300:
