Monthly Archives: October 2011

NASA Three-year Mars journey presented in three minutes

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NASA Three-year Mars journey presented in three minutes

It took the NASA Mars Rover Opportunity three years to cover 13 miles of otherworldly terrain, but now you can experience the journey condensed into a three minute span. NASA recently posted the “Rovers Eye View” video on its website gallery, explaining the Mars trek took the vehicle from Victoria crater to Endeavour crater between September, 2008, and August, 2011. In the course of the trip, 309 “horizon photographs” were captured and later edited together for the slide show. NASA adjusted audio data recorded by the rover so it could be heard and applied it to the video as a captivating soundtrack. Read more »

Bang! The Bullet gets EPIC update for iOS

by Jayvee Fernandez
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Bang! The Bullet gets EPIC update for iOS

Many weeks ago we reviewed Bang! The Bullet. This app never made it to the top list of Apple apps for download but among a huge niche of board game geeks, Bang! is definite favorite. Recently, Palzoun & SpinVector released a much needed update that not only incudes the Dodge City Expansion set, it also put in the much needed online multiplayer that players from around the world were clamoring for. Previously, Bang! only had pass on play for some semblance of multiplayer but this turned out to be rather tedious and impractical. To sweeten the deal even further, the app now sells for only USD $3.99, a full dollar Read more »

11 Superhero Movies That Never Escaped Development Hell

by Robin Parrish
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Concept art from Tim Burton's 'Superman Lives'

With all of the great superhero movies that there have been, there’ve been quite a few stinkers as well. And then there have been some that never made it before cameras — both promising sounding scripts and some that were so very, very bad. Here are 11 superhero films that might have been. Read more »

Lebowski Ipsum Generator [Might Be NSFW]

by Noemi Twigg
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Lebowski Ipsum

It’s the end of the week, but it doesn’t mean that it is the end of the line for Lorem Ipsum generators that are not the run-of-the-mill kind. Do you remember the Lorem Ipsum Generator for Hipsters? That post also included a bonus: the Bacon Ipsum Generator. Earlier today, I found myself playing with a different kind of Lorem Ipsum Generator. Called the Lebowski Ipsum Generator, it has all sorts of references to the 1998 comedy movie starring Jeff Bridges. I guess it’s time for another confession: I only got to see the movie very recently. And I didn’t even pay that much attention as I was working. After playing Read more »

Releasing The Fear

by Darren Burr
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Xenoholics #1 from Shadowline

So, Fear Itself finally concluded (sort of) this week, and unlike Dark Reign, I find I am quite looking forward to the fallout. We can anticipate a new Defenders series, Hulk and Banner are split, a new Thunder God and a more prominent role for Brunnhilde the Valkyrie, which is not before time. Yet my attention has been drawn away from the large events with two new mini-series and a third series that should be a HUGE event for fans everywhere. One question demands to be asked. Just how many stories can companies tell about zombies? Of course, zombiegeddon makes the perfect backdrop for stories about human nature itself, and Read more »

How to Get Married the Super Mario Way

by Noemi Twigg
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Super Mario Wedding Invite

Talk about a cool couple getting together to produce even cooler offspring. (We hope!) Even a blind person can see that that is a Super Mario wedding invitation! Now don’t get overexcited – although I would totally understand if you do get all worked up. After all, with all the boring and sickeningly sappy wedding invitations that you see today, this Super Mario wedding invitation is a sight for sore eyes. The invitation was designed by Larry Quach, for his friends Esther and Ryan. If you were a friend of the couple, this is what you would get in the mail. The actual invite – a game cartridge – is Read more »

Evernote: An Infographic

by Dave Jones
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Evernote: An Infographic

Evernote is a company that provides a software and services for archiving data, taking notes and syncing all your computers and devices together so that all your data is easily accessible. In the past we would keep all or the majority of data on our computers or laptops with some kind of external backup on a hard drive or disc. In these days of smartphones and tablets where we have multiple devices that can function in almost every single way that a computer can- we want to be able to access all our data from any location and not have to worry about which device we have on us at Read more »