February 2009
Damon’s. The 70 year-old restaurant with 80 year-old servers. http://snipurl.com/b3af4
Damon’s. Stuck in time since 1937. http://snipurl.com/b394p
At Damon’s. The oldest restaurant in Glendale, and one of the last tiki bars left.
Wall-E COMPLETELY snubbed by Kung-Fu Panda in animation industry awards. Having worked in animation, frankly I’m shocked. http://is.gd/hXdR
20 Celebrities and the Cars They Drive (PICS) →
Want to know what celebrities drive? We’re so curious, we put together this list of 20 celebs and the cars they drive. So, without further ado, here’s the best of what we found in an hour of…
20 Cute, Creepy, & Geeky Urban Vinyl Collectibles... →
Urban Vinyl collections are home to diverse figures from movies to comic books and even original creations straight from the artist’s mind. Here are some of the internet’s newest and hottest…
Extinct ibex is resurrected by cloning →
An extinct animal has been brought back to life for the first time after being cloned from frozen tissue.
The Drill Down LIVE is on now http://ping.fm/NHT9z
January 2009
The suspect you'd least suspect. →
A TV news blooper causes some unexpected lulz…
Exclusive (and creepy) Watchmen Art (PIC) →
io9 presents a frighteningly skinny Dr. Manhattan from the mind of artist Alex Pardee. Check out the New York Comic-Con exclusive, but be warned you’ve never seen your beloved Watchmen like this…
Statistics (COMIC) →
Remember the red button for a little extra smile.
2009 Oscars Interactive YouTube Photo Hunt! →
A recap of most of the nominees for the 2009 Oscars in the first ever interactive photo hunt on YouTube! Spot the differences and click on the correct square. Pretty cool for YouTube!
Laissez lez bon temps roule! ♫ http://blip.fm/~1wh5u
listening to "Let The Good Times Roll - B.B. King" →
Laissez lez bon temps roule!
Exclusive: First Look at Chaka from Land of the... →
So, when I got an email earlier this week from Brad Silberling, asking me if I’d like to debut the first image of CHAKA from LAND OF THE LOST before you saw him moving in the LAND OF THE LOST TV Spot…
Five A-Listers Who Died in Obscurity →
It’s unimaginable to think that today’s Hollywood A-List could someday die in obscurity. Just imagine, 50 years from now they’ll be running one of those “In Memoriam” clip shows at the Oscars and…
Why Obama is not F.D.R. Or Kennedy. Or Lincoln. Or... →
No American president since Kennedy … or maybe Roosevelt … or perhaps Lincoln … has inspired such a tide of historical comparisons. The danger in so relentlessly referencing historical…
TDD fans: due to unforeseen circumstances, tonight’s live show will be postponed until tomorrow day, Time to be announced. Much apologies!
By popular demand, The Drill Up! An impromptu episode of TDD, hosted by JD Rucker, Live, here soon… http://ping.fm/NHT9z
Amazing Chemicals Invented by Nature, Rebuilt in... →
Many researchers enjoy the challenge of building complicated molecules from scratch in their laboratories, testing their skills in service of a worthwhile goal. Duplicating Mother Nature isn’t easy,…
Photo Manipulations by tebe_interesno (PICS) →
Today’s inspiration comes from LiveJournal user tebe_interesno, a talented Russian artist from Moscow, famous for his creative photo manipulations. Creepy!
Sims of sims: 10 ways to escape from escapism →
Yo dawg, we heard you like simulations so we put a simulation in your simulation so you can simulate while you simulate.
The 9 Lamest Film Fight Scenes Ever →
There’s nothing more thrilling than a finely-crafted movie fight. Filled with flair, passion, and drama, it’s something that’s only possible when the best Hollywood talent are working at their top…
Building a Portrait of a Lie in the Brain: →
In search of a better lie detector, scientists are peering into the brain to probe the origins of deception
Exclusive Images Reveal McG's Terminator Salvation... →
New types of killer robots and a science-inspired conception of post-apocalyptic Earth are helping McG turn Terminator Salvation into an eye-scorching sci-fi flick.
A more accurate FBI Warning (PIC) →
I’m sticking this on the beginning of all my torrents.
EFF, press groups want file-swapping trial video... →
The RIAA is opposing a federal judge’s plan to put part of a pending file-swapping case online for all to watch. The EFF, Associated Press, New York Times, and even John McCain’s former intellectual…
The Energy Scale: 100 Orders of Magnitude (PIC) →
‘Relatively’ fascinating! Get it?… alright, never mind.
Fun and Unusual Units of Measurements →
Humans like to measure things - distance, mass, time, you name it, we’ve measured it. And along the way, people hve come up with some interesting and unusual units of measurements:
Visualizing the Growth of Target, 1962-2008 →
You might guess that Target and Walmart expanded similarly (I did, at least), but you’d be wrong. Both were officially founded in 1962. However, besides more rapid growth, Walmart first expanded…
The 13 Best Films of Sundance 2009 →
Looking back on the festival as a whole, these are the 13 best films, in order. (Click any of the titles below to see my full review)
Red Billboard of Death (PIC) →
If it’s ‘shopped, it’s hilarious. If it’s real, that’s amazing. This picture was created by Pete359 (digg user Arothlink) for Cracked’s forums. I hope you win their contest!
15+ Incredibly Useful Mac Apps For Freelance Web... →
In today’s post you will find 15 incredibly useful Mac Apps for freelance web designers to get their website or application styled in a fraction of the time it took before and help them manage their…
Watchmen: Photo Proof of Our Alternate History... →
The production team for Watchmen have been leaking some really cool stuff, a ton of images from The New Frontiersman - the fictional newspaper of the alternate universe, the alternate 1986 where…
an all-time favorite classic, ♫ http://blip.fm/~1vgk7
listening to "Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto" →
an all-time favorite classic,
Angels of Death: Seven Medical Murderers →
The grisly stories of eight medical professionals who killed their own patients.
Red Billboard of Death (PIC) →
If it’s ‘shopped, it’s hilarious. If it’s real, that’s amazing.
Across the ocean in a pedal-powered submarine →
SOME men mark their 40th birthday by buying a flashy new car, changing jobs or finally getting started on that novel. Ted Ciamillo decided he would pedal across the Atlantic in a one-man submarine he…
Microsoft asks open source developers to play in... →
Microsoft has announced plans to open the source code of Web Sandbox, a project that the company created to address JavaScript security challenges. The code will be distributed under the permissive…
10 Websites To Make You A Photoshop Ninja →
Using the Web, you can learn how to do just about anything in Photoshop, and either become great at it or just get really good at faking it. Either way, you’re doing cool stuff.Here are ten sites to…
Older 'Net users giving youngsters a run for their... →
Teenagers and Generation Y aren’t the only ones who have the Internet down pat. Older users do many things online that younger folks just aren’t into as much, according to the Pew Internet and…
Lighters...Sure, they'll blend, but... →
…not without a nice fireball.
Wacky Apple concepts from 1991 you've never seen... →
Okay, so there I was in Newtown last week looking through Goulds Book Arcade and I found this magazine…”What the hell is this?” I thought.. it’s Apple, yet clearly an unreleased concept. I opened…
50 Amazing Digital Painting Portraits (PICS) →
Digital Painting is an art that takes a lot of knowledge and a lot of time, and these artists sure took some time to create these amazing portraits, there is no easy job when it comes to recreating…
Why Your Bank is Broke →
Sketch loans, financial blunders, and a string of bad bets have left America’s banks nearly insolvent. How an industry collapsed — and why only nationalization might solve it
Growth of gaming, TV hurting kids' critical... →
review of the literature suggests that the growth of visual media, such as games and television, is producing a generation that has greater visual reasoning skills, but a reduced ability to stop and…
If I lived in the past... (COMIC) →
Today i discovered you can’t spell “sexist” without “exist”. not really sure what that means though.
45% Of Dutch Media-Buying Population Are "Pirates" →
4.7 million Dutch Internet users 15 years and older downloaded hacked and pirated DVDs, games, and music in the last 12 months — or, about 25 percent of the Dutch population. But ‘the average [Dutch]…
Too Zune to pass judgement: a review of the Zune... →
When Microsoft announced that its flagship digital media player had posted a stunning 54 percent year-over-year drop in holiday sales, Zune-bashing officially became an Olympic sport. But, unlike us,…