The Periodic Table of Awesoments

Field correspondent/ninja/pirate/LeMons crew member Beth sends in the best compilation I think I’ve seen on various degress of awesome, the Periodic Table of Awesomenets. Bacon, ninjas, Chuck Norris, quite a lot of awesoments included here though there are yet a few undiscovered ones as well. What would you add to complete the table? Read more

J.J. Abrams loves to hide Easter Eggs - The Observer in “Fringe”

One of my favorite new shows this season is “Fringe”, the new J.J. Abrams science-fiction-kinda-mystery show on Fox. It’s been called an X-Files for this generation, which I can kind of see as I used to watch the X-Files and liked the weird things they would try to figure out from week to week. Aside from Dr. Walter Bishop (singlehandedly the best thing to happen to Sci-Fi television since . . . Hurley’s “Duuuude” lines I guess), this show has the trademark Abrams nuggets that you probably miss the first time you see the show, but just amaze you when you go back for a second watch to get the details. “The Observer” is one of those awesome details. More on that, and video after the jump. Read more

Guitar Hero World Tour played on a bike?

No, really. This has got to be the most awesome and well planned out thing I have ever seen. Last week, I picked up the new Guitar Hero World Tour for the Wii and have been having fun with it with the kids. Introducing them to drums, singing (or just random sound effects during a song) and guitar on the new beginner level has been a blast, as well as all the new songs since we’ve really been stuck with the ones on GH3 for a while now with no downloadable content on the Wii (and, no, GH: Aerosmith doesn’t count…). Anyway, someone took one of the better songs included and through some creative and well coordinated and timed help from some friends, rode his bike through the note chart for “Prisoner of Society” by The Living End. I don’t even want to know how many times they had to try this before they pulled it off. Full video after the jump. Read more

Gadgets + Pets = Total Win

Great video, kind of makes me wish that they made Super-sized Roomba’s so I could have a turn. Our Roomba never sees this much fun. Read more

If you thought the Star Wars prequel trilogy was bad…

I give you, for your viewing pleasure / displeasure,

The Star Wars Holiday Special, in it’s entirety (while it lasts on Google Video, at least). Life Day, Chewie’s family (and son “Lumpy”), Bea Arthur, Harvey Korman, Jefferson Starship, and the one shining moment, the first real appearance of Boba Fett in the animated segment, all after the break. Read more

Brief political rant

Last week during the election, we took the kids to the happiest place on Earth, Disneyland in Anaheim. We made sure to do early voting to do our part as citizens of this country, and here in Arizona one of the items on the ballot we felt strongly about was Proposition 102. Basicially the same thing as Proposition 8 in California, though gay marriage was still not allowed here so it differed in that it wasn’t reversing it like Prop 8 was doing. Having friends and coworkers that are gay, I was against 102. Even if I didn’t have friends and coworkers that were gay, though, it’s a matter of civil rights and I would still be against it. While we were at Disneyland the day before the election, there was a really cool bit of skywriting, kind of dot-matrix style. As it cleared some of the trees and we could see it, we could read “Save Traditional Marriage”. Sick that they would do that directly over Disneyland, who also opposed Prop 8. The Governor opposed Prop 8. Apple opposed Prop 8. Yet both it and Prop 102 here in Arizona passed. This morning, I saw a video that I think says what I’m still feeling about that much better than I could ever express. Read more

Which candidate gets the World of Warcraft vote?

This being a technology-based blog, I usually steer away from politics. Too messy, and very passionate viewpoints from both sides. I wanted to pass on a great non-partisan video found today based around a machinma (or basically artistic gameplay) video done out of World of Warcraft, interviewing actual gamers on their political preferences in hopes of seeing which way Azeroth would go if they were included in the election. Great video, funny but also interesting to see the diverse views even of the gaming community. Video after the break. Read more

Found trivia fun - The Drake Equation

In doing some research today on astronomical topics, I came across this little gem that is the cornerstone of the belief that extraterrestrial life is out there somewhere - the Drake Equation, named for Frank Drake and published in 1960. It is what tries to estimate the number of possible extraterrestrial civilizations out there that we might come in contact with. The full equation and explanations, as well as the current estimates of the result of the equation, after the break. Read more

Watch the alien invasion on Twitter - War of the Worlds 2.0

In a unique take on Orson Wells’ historic retelling of the H.G. Wells story “War of the Worlds”, the folks over at “Ask a Wizard” are preparing a new retelling of the alien invasion on Twitter. More after the break. Read more

First rule of Super-Geeks - Knowledge is Power!

Uber-geek Andy checking in (no, that’s not me in the picture) with some interesting learning resources for you geeks looking to expand your horizons. The first rule of being a super-geek we learned from Schoolhouse Rocky, “Knowledge is Power!”. I’ve been away for a little bit from the blog updating due to study work preparing to renew some of my technical certifications that I’ve let slide over the years. For those of you looking into learning from a more scientific field, read on after the break: Read more

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