Month: August 2012

Mitt and Rob, the illustrated edition: a comic artist’s vision of Delaney’s political comedy

Mitt and Rob, the illustrated edition: a comic artist’s vision of Delaney’s political comedy

A Rob Delaney tweet can stir up some absurd and um… special images to the brain (like how “Van Morrison’s ‘Crazy Love’ is about the time his mom’s friend Eleanor made him put on a buffalo mask & do her on a tractor”), but laughter-evoking 

SONIC BOOM! Street Fighter 2 in real life: flamethrowers, motion gloves, and a Burning Man debut

SONIC BOOM! Street Fighter 2 in real life: flamethrowers, motion gloves, and a Burning Man debut

At the Toronto’s Site3 coLaboratory hackerspace in Canada they’ve been busy working on a live action Street Fighter 2 game Super Street Fire, where every punch is translated into fire. For real. For all those who would sit in basements and geek out to Street Fighter 2 (not to mention, Mortal Kombat) 

Glass blower recreates nature with glass-blown hermit crab shells

Glass blower recreates nature with glass-blown hermit crab shells

Never was it more clear (no pun intended, swear) why these alien-like crustaceans are called hermits. With these glass-blown shells crafted by Robert DuGrenier, the crabs naturally take a liking to them, as they accommodate the exact contours of their body. And we’re able to 

Is the sun secretly jealous of Mars Curiosity rover getting all the attention?

Is the sun secretly jealous of Mars Curiosity rover getting all the attention?

With all excitement about the Curiosity rover landing on Mars, everyone seemed to forget about the rest of the solar system. But the sun isn’t letting any old Red Planet stand in its way: the buoyant star of fire experienced a 500,000-mile filament (that’s huge,  2x the 

It’s no surprise 3 out of 5 of the top liquors sold in the world are whiskey

It’s no surprise 3 out of 5 of the top liquors sold in the world are whiskey

Ahh, whiskey. How we love you in every way: with a splash of ginger, on ice (or you know, straight up with a shot of OJ). And in a recent trade report conducted by International Wine and Spirit Research, it seems lot of us feel the 

The flawless landing of the Curiosity rover forecasts future machinal expeditions

The flawless landing of the Curiosity rover forecasts future machinal expeditions

We all know the successes of the Voyager that just recently left the heliosphere since its first launch in 1977, and now a similar 2,000 pound spacecraft nicknamed Curiosity–very fitting for scientists’ magnetization towards the planet Mars and the abundance of information its resources–is on its way to 

Curiosity Rover plans for a 1:31 AM Mars landing Monday morning

Curiosity Rover plans for a 1:31 AM Mars landing Monday morning

It’s not easy getting to Mars. I mean, the planet’s nearly 35 million miles away, it’s not like it’s a quick 224,000 mile trip to the moon (either way, NASA makes it all seem like a breeze). But regardless of the struggle, the United States 

Aussie billionaire Clive Palmer wants a real life Jurassic Park with cloned dinosaurs and everything

Aussie billionaire Clive Palmer wants a real life Jurassic Park with cloned dinosaurs and everything

OK, OK. We’ve all been dreaming about this since 1993 when Jurassic Park first came out. Well, sort of. An Aussie man (who is also known as a “potentially crazed mad scientist”) Clive Palmer said he refuses to give any specific details, but he wants to