Archive for January, 2009
The Megastructures Where You’ll Live in Space
io9 has a great gallery of what the future of human space structures might look like. Here are just a few samples:
Barats and Bereta in ‘Bible in a Minute’ and ‘Douche Off’
I’ve been a fan of Barats and Bereta for quite a while. Somehow, though, I forgot to check their site for updates for several months. Lucky for me, that I remembered today and found some awesome new videos.
Bible In A Minute – barats and bereta
Douche Off – barats and bereta
LOTR Cakes
OMG. Now I’m so confused. Do I get a Dragon cake or a LOTR cake for my next birthday?! Decisions, decisions. Life is hard. Let’s go shopping.
via Geekologie and Cake Wrecks.
Beat Poet Confronts Hippy Science
Lene sent this one my way. Make sure to listen carefully. There are no visuals, just spoken word. And, although it’s long, it’s totally worth it!
Awesome Photoshop Tennis
Bush’s Science Advisers
Star Trek on Robot Chicken
Leave it to one of the biggest Trekkies in the world (Christian) to find these and send them my way. Enjoy:
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And this one isn’t Star Trek, but it’s from the same post. It’s Zachary Quinto spoofing his own character on Heroes:
Only Five Red States Left?
That’s what Nate Silver says the new polls are reporting:
That’s right: just five states, collectively containing about 2 percent of the American population, have statistically significant pluralities of adults identifying themselves as Republicans. These are the “Mormon Belt” states of Utah, Idaho and Wyoming, plus Nebraska, plus Alaska. By contrast, 35 states are plurality Democratic, and 10 states are too close to call.
Create Your Own Star Trek Story
Christian and I have been watching a lot of Star Trek lately. I never really watched much of Voyager or Enterprise, so he’s been catching me up. Now we have a tool that’ll allow us to create our very own Star Trek adventure! (via io9)
Click on the image to see the full chart.
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