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Music Video: This Too Shall Pass

Mar 3 2010 No Comment  22 views

OK Go’s latest music video features an astonishingly complex Rube Goldberg machine. According to the YouTube info, it was built over the course of several months in a two story warehouse in L.A.




Book Trailer: Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter

Mar 3 2010 No Comment  11 views

The book trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith may well be the most kick-ass book trailer I’ve ever seen… because there’s only one thing that could make Lincoln’s legacy greater! The truth about Lincoln’s double life as a vampire slayer!

Geek Media Round-Up: March 3, 2010

Mar 3 2010 No Comment  38 views

The Losties Wallpaper

Art

  • Check out this Google Monster by Asaf Hanuka for an article in California Lawyer about groups protesting Google’s plan to scan every books.
  • Edgar Mueller takes 3D chalk pavement art to a new level! [See more]
  • Patrick Hughes is rapidly gaining a name for his Amazing 3D Paintings.
  • Springfield Punx has Simpson-ized the cast of Lost and is now offering a wallpaper of them all together.

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Picture of the Week: Alien Facehugger

Mar 3 2010 No Comment  17 views

Plush Facehugger

Seriously, people. Your fandom has gone to far when it becomes a choking hazard for your infant. (No matter how cute the resulting photo is.)

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This Day in Geek History: March 3

Mar 3 2010 No Comment  14 views

March 3rd is Hinamatsuri, the Japanese Doll Festival. It’s a day to pray for the growth and happiness of young girls. It’s also sometimes called “Momo no sekku” (Peach Festival), because of the peach blossoms dedicated to the dolls traditionally used in the festival.

1863
United States President Abraham Lincoln approves an Act of Congress (12 Stat. L. 806) which charters The National Academy of Sciences. The Act stipulates that the Academy will “whenever called upon by any department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment or report upon any subject of science or art.” Members of the Academy will serve pro bono, without compensation, but the actual expenses incurred for the Government’s requirements are to be paid from appropriations.

1865
Provisions for photographs are added to the United States Copyright Act.
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Geek Quote of the Day

Mar 3 2010 No Comment  2 views

What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence, away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence and more toward what might be called a utilitarian intelligence. The price of zipping among lots of bits of information is a loss of depth in our thinking.

      - “Is Google Making us Stupid” by Nicholas Carr.
      First published in The Atlantic, July 2008.

Media Releases for the Week of March 2, 2010

Mar 2 2010 No Comment  11 views

Hardcover Book Releases

The Dream of Perpetual MotionCoyote Destiny by Allen Steele
The Dream of Perpetual Motion by Clarence Palmer

Paperback Book Releases

The Last Stormlord by Glenda Larke

DVD Releases

2012 (PG-13)
An epic disaster film featuring about ten minutes of plot and an hour and a half of characters running for their lives. It’s impossible to suspend your disbelief so far as to find any part of this film plausible and it’s ending sucks, but it’s a great late night shut-off-your brain shout-at-the-screen with your friends flick.
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Geek Media Round-Up: March 2, 2010

Mar 2 2010 No Comment  19 views

Art

Spicy Horse

  • Over at Flickr, Spicy Horse has posted a gallery of Concept Art for the video game American McGee’s Red. [More here]
  • Riccardo Bucchioni offers more minimalistic movie posters at Flickr.

Film

  • News: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is being made into a film.
  • News: Moon sequel Mute Witness a homage to Blade Runner
  • ForkParty offers this list of 7 Horror Movies So Bad, They’re Good.
  • SciFi Scanner points out the Five Ways Tim Burton Changed Comic-Book Movies.

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