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Felicia Day
June 28, 2011 8:16 am BabesFelicia Day is the ultimate geek fantasy, because she’s a self-proclaimed geek herself. She appeared in the seventh season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, starred in the internet sensation Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and is the writer, producer, and star of the web series The Guild. In addition to being an avid gamer, Day is [...]
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Matthew Cusick’s Map Art
June 22, 2011 2:17 pm Artwork, featuredThis guy’s art is amazing through and through, but I found myself particularly captivated by his map art. Yes, you read that correctly. The man makes art out of pieces of maps. It has a striking result. I emailed him to ask him if I had permission to use his images in this post, and [...]
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Bacon Makes Everything Better
June 15, 2011 11:19 am featured, HumorThis started out as a post about businesses named Bacon. We love that, because everything really is better with bacon. Construction companies, insurance companies, farms, medical centers….it all puts us in mind of the bacon explosion. Never heard of it? Feast your eyes: mmmmm. Bacon. Things and People Named Bacon So, here are some businesses [...]
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They Used To Be So Cute
June 10, 2011 8:05 pm Animals, HumorThings that are small are cute…it’s just a fact of life. When living things are small they’re cute so that we’re compelled to take care of them and protect them from the big bad world. But what happens when they grow up? A tiger cub makes you think about getting a cat, a full grown [...]
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The Fact on Hoarding & Hoarders – Infographic
June 10, 2011 6:32 pm BizarreThe Psychology of a Hoarder Up to 5% of the world’s population displays clinical hoarding. Children begin collecting objects at 25 months of age. By age 6, nearly 70% of children collect or store things. Characteristics of a Hoarder Acquiring large numbers of useless items and neglecting or refusing to get id of them. Cluttering [...]
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Who Won E3 2011? Microsoft vs. Sony vs. Nintendo
June 7, 2011 1:15 pm Technology, Video GamesE3 2011, June 6-9, presented by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) for the video gaming industry. In a slight departure from our normal kinds of posts, I unveil the winner of E3 2011. Each year the “Big 3″ companies, Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo, hold a press conference, and each year one is crowned as winning E3. [...]
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Creative Money
June 2, 2011 1:07 pm Artwork, HumorWhat started out for his own amusement has turned into a project for artist James Charles. Along with artist Akira Beard, he’ll be showing his artwork at the Shooting Gallery in San Francisco until June 4th (so go check it out if you’re in the area) in an exhibit called American Iconomics. James Charles has altered [...]
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Best Fictional Weapons
May 31, 2011 3:02 pm Cartoons, Comics, Film, Technology, Video GamesFirst of all, a quick disclaimer: I am not glamorizing nor glorifying weapons, violence, or related topics. Ok, now that that’s out of the way…we’ve all watched some action movie, TV show, or played a video game and thought that the hero (or villain) had a badass weapon. But what are the best of these [...]
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Great TV Character Names
May 26, 2011 1:12 pm TelevisionShakespeare famously wrote that “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”, implying that it isn’t what you name something that’s important, but the actual character of what’s behind the name. That’s all well and good when we’re debating inner beauty versus actual beauty, but sometimes a name says a lot about a [...]
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Movie Trilogies That Don’t Completely Suck
May 24, 2011 11:39 am FilmThe movie industry is filled with trilogies that did good for two movies and then dropped the ball on the third time around. The Spider-Man, X-Men, Matrix, and Godfather trilogies easily spring to mind as film series that fell apart on the third time around. Does that mean that all trilogies are doomed to failure? [...]
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