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Unwrap an iPad or Kindle Yesterday? Fill it with 2011’s Breakout Science Fiction Author Andrew Mayne
SPONSORED POST The breakout Science Fiction author of 2011 is waiting to invade that brand spanking new eReader of your choice. If you found yourself a Kindle Fire or iPad 2 under the Christmas tree this year you need to snag entire Andrew...
The Doctor Celebrates Life Day [Doctor Who Dissection]
Chatting trees, mother knows best and things get dusty for the Doctor. The Christmas Day episode of Doctor Who written by current series mastermind Stephen Moffat gave us something we got frightfully little of this season: a competent...
And Now: Rollerman
Rollerman has created a 31-wheeled suit of roller-blades, which he uses to go very, very fast. Click the play button to watch three minutes of insanity. [Geekologie]
Smith is Back! Andrew Mayne’s Chronological Man Adventure: The Martian Emperor Available Now
SPONSORED POST Who is the Martian Emperor? When a giant airship descends on New York City in 1892 and threatens destruction if the world doesn’t submit to the Martian flag, it’s up to the mysterious Smith, inventor and adventurer to find...
Are Pigeons as Smart as Primates?
Oft-maligned as disease stuffed flying rats, pigeons tend to get a bad rap. But it looks like the city birds could be much smarter than we initially thought, or at the very least able to keep track of all the people calling them disease...
Large Metal Capsule Falls to Earth, Baffles Authorities
In what is surely not the seemingly harmless opening salvo for an intergalactic invasion, a mysterious metal ball has fallen to Earth outside of an African village. The hollow ball with a circumference of 1.1 metres (43 inches) was found...
Helen Mirren as Doctor Who HELL YES [FACT]
So some mouth-breather on this site decided to pour cold water on the idea of Helen Mirren playing Doctor Who. We’ll forget that this person up until recently called the Doctor “Dr. Who” and stick to the facts. “It’s a gimmick” Yes? And...
A Case Against Helen Mirren as Doctor Who [Opinion]
Helen Mirren says she wants to play Doctor. Not a “sidekick” but a proper Doctor, what with a screwdriver and everything. Everyone thinks this is a great idea. So what’s the harm at letting such an accomplished actress spend a regeneration...
Should We Name the Recently Discovered Kepler Planets Romulus & Remus?
There seems to be a movement afoot, begun on Space.com’s Facebook page, to colloquially refer to the recently discovered Kepler planets Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f by the Star Trek-inspired nicknames Romulus and Remus. According to Gene...
Petty Hate Never Dies: 1,700-Year-Old Furious Complaint About Grocer Recovered
Ever feel guilty about complaining? Sure the drive through clerk at Wendy’s forgot to remove the tomatoes from my Spicy Chicken sandwich, but do I really want to go back into the store? And even worse, what if my friends call me cheap for...
Perry Bible Fellowship Creator Stars as Villainous Sheriff in Awesome Western Webseries
Stargazin’: Trails Of Tarnation – Chapter 4 from New Picture Agencies on Vimeo. Trails of Tarnation is a western serial shot on 16mm film in Upstate New York and using awesome model sets and green screen to tell an equal parts...
NASA Finds Earth Sized Planets, How Big are They Compared to Earth, Venus?
The Kepler telescope has spotted two Earth-sized planets circling another star. Although they are too close to the star to be habitable, they are the smallest planets we’ve ever observed circling as close to their star, not unlike our sun....
And Then There Was The Time They Sold Golf Balls With a Radioactive Core
This one is going straight on my “Do Not Want” list. Apparently, back in the good old days of 1910, the Worthington Golf Ball Company produced golf balls with a radium-laced core. Known as the “Ball of Mystery that never loses life or...
Want to Spend New Years Eve with Brian Brushwood & Justin Robert Young?
SPONSORED POST What are you going to be doing New Years Eve? A whole bag of nothing, that’s what. Why not kick 2011 in the pants with your friends? Brian Brushwood will be performing his full magic show, Justin Robert Young will be hosting...
Dutch TV-Show Hosts Eat Each Other’s Flesh
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Two Dutch television-show hosts said they had their flesh cooked by a top chef and then dined on each other before a studio audience. “Nothing is really that special when you’re...
[Video] Spy Plane or UFO? Russian Pro-Democracy Protesters Spot Silent Flying Craft
[UFO Casebook]
Mystery Creature Lurking in London Lake Next to 2012 Olympics Site
It’s under the water. Just below the gentle, lapping surface near Olympic Park in East London. It lurks. What it is, we don’t yet know. Aside from the apparent taste for fat Canadian Geese, not much can be confirmed as no one has yet to...
Did a Young Benjamin Franklin Seriously Write About a Mermaid?
Did Benjamin Franklin report on an unsubstantiated mermaid claim in Bermuda as a young writer, or was it all a big joke? Here is what Franklin wrote in the Pennsylvania Gazette on April 29th, 1739: “From Bermuda, they write, that a Sea...
Ice Shelf Gets Wired for Transcontinental Phone Calls
The Ross Ice Shelf is about as desolate as desolate can get. All you can hope to do is complete your research of the warming arctic water, survive and hope that one of your colleagues doesn’t turn into The Thing. Now, the first of those...
Rogue Owl Theory Gains Convicted Murder New Trial
A man convicted of his wife’s murder will get a new trial for two reasons. 1) It has come to light that the, since fired, State Bureau of Investigation agent in charge of his investigation mishandled evidence in several of his cases. 2) A...