Category: Geeky Stuff

Wealth in America

This is a most enlightening infographic video highlighting the extreme extent to which wealth inequality exists in America today. It’s well worth looking at, and quite an eye opener. Of course, one must not blindly believe everything one reads, sees, or hears on the Internet, so here’s a few links...

Global Trends 2030

Well, this is certainly interesting. The National Intelligence Council, one of those enigmatic-sounding-yet-mostly-harmless-(well-probably) US government agencies,  has recently released a report called Global Trends 2030. This is interesting because it projects 4 plausible scenarios, or “Alternative Worlds”,  for the future state of the world in the year 2030, covering the...

No Death Star by 2016, Says White House

The White House has just rejected a modest proposal to secure resources and funding to begin construction of a Death Star by 2016.  White House science and technology adviser Paul Shawcross shot down the idea sighting the $850 quadrillion dollar price tag, plus pointing out that the Death Star has...

Zeitgeist 2012

Google has put up their retrospective of the year 2012 with Zeitgeist 2012. A lot happened this past year, so a 2 minute 45 video hardly does it justice… Nevertheless, it is a great perspective of the year in review. Enjoy!

NASA Johnson Style

This is certainly interesting: NASA Johnson (Space Center) Style, an unofficial NASA parody of that wacky K-Pop song, Gangnam Style (the first YouTube video to get 1 billion hits…) Check it out!

Disney Buys Lucasfilm

Holy mother of Vader, Disney has just acquired Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion! Apparently, Disney is also going to make a 7th film for release in 2015, with more films to follow every 2 to 3 years. Here’s a video interview: I guess we’ll just wait and see where this is...

Joss Whedon on Romney

Still not sure who to vote for? Perhaps director Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, and directory of Marvel’s Avengers, can offer you some sagely advice.  

Samuel L. Jackson: Wake Up and Vote

I normally shy away from posting on political topics, but this one is just too good to pass up. Samuel L. Jackson himself has a few choice words about this coming election — and be warned, he does use that one word for which he is most famous.  

Dragon*Con 2012 Parade

As I previously posted, we’ve just returned from Dragon*Con 2012, and it was great! Most of my pictures turned out to be from the parade (since I skipped out on the costume contest), and while I have far more pictures than I can possibly post, I thought I would just...