By JB Sanders<\/p>\n
The hot has begun…<\/p>\n
Because This Will End Well<\/a><\/strong> Muppets, Fraggle Rock and Serenity<\/a><\/strong> Behind the Scenes Photos<\/a><\/strong> Scary Great Toy Mashup or Sign of the Toy Apocalypse?<\/a><\/strong> Awesome People Hanging Out Together<\/a><\/strong> Laser from a Living Cell<\/a><\/strong> Well, The Assyrian Dictionary is Done<\/a><\/strong> Now, This is Graffiti I Can Get Behind<\/a><\/strong> From the ‘Dogs Can Smell Better Than You’ Files<\/a><\/strong> This is How Science-Fiction Becomes Reality<\/a><\/strong> How to Build an Awesome Enclosure for Your Telescope<\/a><\/strong> Mars in a Bottle<\/a><\/strong> Why Are Homo Sapiens the Only Hominids Still Hanging Around?<\/a><\/strong>
\nArchaeologists in Mexico have found a previously unknown tunnel under the Temple of the Snake in Teotihuacan. They estimate that it’s been sealed for over 1,800 years and there are chambers at the end of the passage. Those SciFi movie plots don’t just write themselves…<\/p>\n
\nNerd and geek combined into one: cross-overs that never existed.<\/p>\n
\nFrom little movies like Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Other shots:
\nHow they did the Empire Strikes Back text crawl (you’ll be surprised).
\nA shot of Alfred Hitchcock, Tippi Hedren and some birds.
\nA shot inside the giant alien spacecraft in Alien.
\nA picture of Max Schreck lounging creepily. (Bonus geek points if you know the Other Movie this ties into, all too eerily.)<\/em>
\nReally, why are you still reading this blurb? Click on the link already! <\/p>\n
\nSo, combine collectible action figures, with collectible card games, Pokeman, Gauntlet (yes, the venerable arcade game) and console-based video games. Oh, and throw in some old-fashioned leveling-up madness. What do you have? Skylanders. It’s a video game for consoles (all of them, I guess). It’s fairly standard Gauntlet-like collect things and smash monsters. However, the character you play is based on what actual toy action figure you plug into their USB-connected platform. Before your head explodes, you have to use one of the action figures (32 at release) they’re producing for the game. The plus side is that any items you collect or leveling-up you do with that specific action figure are stored — inside the action figure. You can take the guy with you to a friends house and have all those abilities and loot you got before. The game comes with 3 figures, and they’re going to be releasing “booster packs” with random figures inside.<\/p>\n
\nIt’s the name of the link and the subject matter all in one. Photos of unusual pairings, all looking like they’re candid shots. Lots of pop culture icons in there, plus some geek favorites: Niels Bohr & Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates (many, many years ago, looking all hippy and geeky), Neil Patrick Harris & Stephen Colbert, Chuck Norris & Bruce Lee (that’s a money shot). And something just for a conspiracy-theorist’s dream: Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Warren G. Harding, and Harvey Firestone (I mean, seriously); or Salvador Dali & Walt Disney.<\/p>\n
\nAre atomic mutants not far behind?<\/p>\n
\nAnd it only took 90 years!<\/p>\n
\nJust an inspired piece of art. Imagine drawing a mustache on a famous portrait, and then take it up about ten notches.<\/p>\n
\nScientists have discovered that dogs are better at telling twins apart than, wait for it, DNA tests. Turns out there IS a genetic difference between twins, but it’s so small that modern DNA tests have trouble distinguishing between identical twins. Not so with dogs.<\/p>\n
\nAustrian scientists have developed a new way to do what rotors on helicopters and airplanes have done before now. Heck, their flying machines don’t even need wings. They produce thrust by using rotating turbine-like blades, and because those blades can be adjusted, the D-Dalus can produce thrust in any direction, 360 degrees. It’s also fine with rough weather and nearly silent. <\/p>\n
\nHow? You make it into a TARDIS replica. Seriously.<\/p>\n
\nScientists create an artificial Mars-like environment and then toss in some Earth microbes to see how they fare. It does sound a little like a SciFi Channel Saturday movie, why do you ask? <\/p>\n
\nMaybe because homo erectus used the same axe design for a million years. Yeah, seriously.<\/p>\n