Gadgets, Superheroes, Retro Tech, RPGs, Art
We’re Trekkies And We Know It via Giant Freakin Robot I’m proud to be a Trekkie and I’m glad these fellows feel comfortable enough in their nerdiness to do this video. But I also cringe while watching it because of the stereotype...
'Game Of Thrones', A Clash Of Food Fine Dining Lovers, an online magazine for food enthusiasts, thought you might be interested in the story about Game of Thrones from a foodie point of view. Fans of Game of Thrones want to eat and...
Interesting Articles: Banana Sex, Android for Battle,... Top 10 films that predicted the future [Listverse] The unfortunate sex life of the banana [Damn Interesting] Securing Android for the Battle Space, armed conflict has radically changed. ...
The Art of Film & TV Title Design The credits are often the first thing we see when we watch a great film or TV show, but the complexity and artistry of title design is rarely discussed. From PBS Off Book, a quick look at the thinking...
Rash of UFO Sightings Around the World There’s been a lot of UFO sightings in the USA, England, Canada and Australia, all reporting seeing an object in the sky shaped like a pyramid. Coincidence? Conspiracy? You decide. Here’s a...
Category : History Geek
On this day in 1799, French troops in Egypt uncovered the Rosetta stone while digging the foundations of an addition to a fort near the town of el-Rashid (Rosetta).
The Rosetta Stone is a basalt slab inscribed with three ancient languages that allowed researchers over 20 years later to translate the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt.
The text on the stone was simply a decree by Ptolemy V.
PLEASE go watch these. Acts 1-3 are currently available and free to watch until July 20 when they’ll be taken offline.
Stop reading this, go now if you to want to learn how to get into the Evil League of Evil.
Category : Gadgets
Found via macenstein.
Funny, sick, hilarious, amusing, sidesplitting, priceless. Pick your synonym, you get the point.
Independent tests show that Red Hat Linux pulls as much as 12% less power than Windows 2008 on identical hardware
While this is an interesting read from Network World, it’s not a slam dunk win for Linux because there are just a few too many caveats in the test bed for the Linux test. So instead of the goal to compare “apples to apples”, when you really dig in and look at the results what you’ve got is trying to compare a Red Delicious to a Granny Smith. I’ll let you decide who’s ‘delicious’ and who’s ‘granny’ 
Snip:
Our tests point to Linux as the winner of the green flag by margins that topped out at 12%. But we must note that our results are full of stipulations imposed by our test bed, and as the more truthful car advertisements might warn — your wattage may vary.
Megan Fox was told to put on weight for the new Transformers movie. She said director Michael Bay wanted her full of energy for the action sequences.
“I had to put on size for Transformers 2 because Michael doesn’t like skinny girls”, she said.
In 3 weeks she put on 10 pounds. Not sure when the pic above was taken but looks like she could do with a couple more pounds.
In other Megan Fox news:
