The geek has indeed inherited the earth. A growing number of pursuits are now aimed squarely at the geek in all of us. Gone are the days when poring over comicbooks, talking about gadgets and raving over Star Trek is a sure way of getting beat up. Now it is cool to be a geek. It’s practically a badge of honor to be able to reference science fiction shows and fantasy novels, actually recognize physics terms and theories, have a huge comicbook collection and have a slew of gadgets — most of them released just a few months ago. For the true-blue and hardcore geek no other country in the Read more »
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Marvel vs. classic heroes, or violence in cartoons
Interesting article on the level of violence in cartoons and comics, comparing the amount of violence in classic cartoons and the dose of aggression offered by modern superheroes.Moneyquote: The accompanying article complains mostly about the violence in the new generation of cartoons featuring the “weirdies”, the Super-Heroes. While the piece does mention both sides of the argument about the effects of violence on children it comes down in favor of the classic and presumably more kid-friendly characters from animation. The author seems to have forgotten how incredibly violent the old cartoons were. They were astonishingly brutal even with the heavy editing that was performed prior to network broadcast to ensure Read more »
Youtube Find: Futurama Space Invaders
Old school gaming fans and cartoon fans have everything their heart desires in this Youtube find: Futurama stars fighting Space Invaders (not the space invaders ice cubes). Read more »
The New Testament Narrated in Lego
Lego is fun, Lego is ace, Lego kept us geeks busy for many many hours during our youth. And we love Lego at FG HQ. No surprise we were positively surprised by the website The Brick Testament which narrates the New Testament in Lego form. Not that we are religious here at FG but this _religious testament_ still deserves a mention. An honourful mention that is and a listing in our Dept. of Awesomeness. Read more »
RSS Icon Pillow
At the FG HQ we certainly love our coffee, but RSS is another hot topic for us geeks. Drink coasters are just a small sign of our addiction, we also love pillows and what better way to feed our feed addiction with this new RSS pillow? The pillow is 12″x12″ and can be bought from Craftsquatch on Etsy for $14.99. Craftsquatch also offers a whole set of Adobe Creative Suite icon pillows at the same price. Read more »
Tigatron USB flash drive: storage (kinda) in disguise
Do you need a Transformers fix and the ability to store 2GB of data in one go? If so, the not-so-compact Transforming Tigatron Flash Drive is for you. I’m not convinced it looks a whole lot like the original Tigatron, but there you go. It’s not arriving until September, and will set you back around $50. Not cheap but then what other USB drives come with their own robotic disguise? Click over for more images. Read more »
Youtube Find: Amazing Japanese Animated Street Art
Japanese art collective Rinpae Shidan released a time lapse video of one of their projects where they have been painting on the same wall for one week long. Every art work they created served as base for the next painting. Read more »
Bowers & Wilkins offers super high quality music downloads
You’d expect audio experts like Bowers & Wilkins to be pushing the envelope when it comes to quality music reproduction, and today the British company has announced an upgrade to its Society of Sound Music download service. Members can now get access to three lossless music download file formats – Apple Lossless, 16-bit FLAC and now 24-bit FLAC. Membership is £23.95 for six months or £33.95 per year, and for that you get to download an album every month, recorded at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios. This isn’t iTunes or any other mass-download music site, so it probably isn’t for everyone, but it does offer a range of alternative music Read more »
Seductive Espionage: The World of Yuki 7
Seductive Espionage: The World of Yuki 7 is a soon to be released 60′s style espionage comic by Kevin Dart. Special about this comic release is the HD theatrical trailer ‘A Kiss from Tokyo’. I like this style of introducing new comics. Preorder and more preview images here. Read more »
Feed and drink with these RSS-themed coasters
It’ll certainly provide a little conversation starter and allow you to educate your non-techie friends and family on the fineries of RSS. This set of 16 RSS-themed coasters will not only keep nasty glass and mug rings off your furniture but also advertise one of your favourite pastimes – browsing web sites via Google Reader or Bloglines. Read more »
