I’m working a bit late today as I had to schedule some downtime for a critical piece of hardware that needed to be powered down, lightly disassembled, have a part replaced and then powered back up. As I unscrewed the…
So, Comedy Central, not content with letting one of your stars steal other people’s bits, eh? Wanted a piece of that action too, didja? Prior art, and all that.
So, Comedy Central, not content with letting one of your stars steal other people’s bits, eh? Wanted a piece of that action too, didja? Prior art, and all that.
Seriously, people: Beacon of Hope.
Or, at least, it certainly did funny things to Mark Littell’s head (see: NuttyBuddy). For reference’s sake: Yes indeedy, ’cause taking a fastball to the groin is a sane, rational thing to do. The above-linked PopSci article claims the genius…
Ne’er has that particular Homerism been more appropriate than at this moment. Roman Cortes constructed the above artwork, a feat which is unremarkable until you realize that he created the entire thing using HTML and CSS. Ned Batchelder has the…
By way of Geekadelphia we have rather striking visual evidence of the similarities between the ’89 Michael Keaton Batman and this summer’s Christopher Nolan/Christian Bale/Heath Ledger Dark Knight incarnation. Judge for yourselves: Obviously, since the underlying material is so similar,…
For instance, Stephen Fry’s BBC documentary on the Gutenberg press: Watch the other 5 parts on YouTube as well. It’s excellent viewing for all linguists and Anglophiles alike.
This is a pretty nifty idea: Youngme / Nowme asks folks to send in photos of themselves 1) from their younger years then 2) recreating (to the best of their ability) the scenes in the photos right now. Some are…
No. No they isn’t. Whoops: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is fond of quoting a particular passage of Scripture. The quote, however, does not appear in the Bible and is “fictional,” according to biblical scholars. In her April 22 Earth…
