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William Shatner Wakes Up The Space Shuttle and The History of the Star Trek Theme Song
A special pre-recorded greeting by William Shatner was played along with the Star Trek theme song for the “wakeup call” of the crew of the…
Charlie Sheen on UStream and Charlie & Chuck Lorre on The Night Shift
Oh dear. Charlie Haz a Stream. Can you tell his publicist quit last week? The “Sheen’s-Korner” show debuted on Saturday night with something that looked…
Laughing Squid Featured In Hugh MacLeod Comic
Our friend, cartoonist Hugh MacLeod has just featured Laughing Squid in his latest comic, which is part of a series of comics he is doing…
LetterMPress, A Beautiful Letterpress App for iPad
Designer John Bonadies is using a Kickstarter project to fund LetterMPress, a beautiful virtual letterpress for iPad. LetterMpress will be a virtual letterpress environment, released…
A Chicken Made Using Eggshells
“What Came First?”, a sculpture by Kyle Bean featuring a chicken made using eggshells.
Socialcam, An Easy Way To Share Videos With Friends
Justin.tv has just launched Socialcam, a new iPhone and Android app that makes it easy to share video with your friends. Here’s more on the…
National Geographic Describes the World’s Most Typical Person
With the earth’s population expected to exceed 7 billion this year, National Geographic set out to describe the “world’s most typical person” in the video…
Photos: Needle Felting Extravaganza at Gallery Hanahou in NYC
Here are some photos from last last Thursday’s Needle Felting Extravaganza at Gallery Hanahou in New York City which featured some amazing needle-felting art by…
Nerdmergency Kit and MaxFunDrive Fundraiser for MaximumFun.org
Our friend Jesse Thorn and the team over at MaximumFun.org are in the midst of their annual MaxFunDrive. Even though The Sound of Young America,…
The Elfoid, A Creepy Humanoid Mobile Phone
photo via IEEE Spectrum photo via Ars Electronica The same Japanese robotics team that created the unsettling human-ish Telenoid robot has now released a prototype…