By Alex in Science Fiction on May 24, 2012 at 1:12 pm What could be better than H.P. Lovecraft or Nikola Tesla? Why, Lovecraft AND Tesla teaming up together as paranormal investigators, of course! Who you gonna call? Travis Pitts of Zom-Bot Labs, of course: Link - via Drawn Previously on Neatorama: Tesla: Master of Lightning Continue reading →

NEW YORK, May 24, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- WIRED today announced National GeekDad Day ( www.wired.com/geekdadday ), a comprehensive initiative to encourage parents and their children to strengthen family ties and ignite children's passions for science, technology, engineering, and math. On June 17, 2012, WIRED plans to take over Father's Day with curated activities, projects, and experiments that families can host themselves or do together at one of a national network of museums and educational centers including: -- Space Center Houston www.spacecenter.org -- California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco www.calacademy.org -- Denver Museum of Nature and Science www.dmns.org -- NY Hall of Science www.nysci.org -- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland www.omsi.edu -- Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago www.msichicago.org -- ... Continue reading →

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For those that missed Sunday night’s episode of The Simpsons, there was a brilliant “couch gag” in the opening credits: the Simpson family animated by The Ren & Stimpy Show mastermind John Kricfalusi. The bit (above) was bizarre, awkward, weird (yes that’s Homer pouring a beer directly into his cranium), and wonderful. Basically, it’s all the [...] Texas governor and presidential candidate Rick Perry is floating the idea of invading Mexico. Too late: The U.S. military is already up to epaulets there. 10.03.11 From Danger Room The United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore and South Korea signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement on Saturday, an accord targeting intellectual property piracy. 10.03.11 From Threat Level Ten years ago this month, in a small-ish theater ... Continue reading →

By Cory Doctorow at 6:00 pm Wednesday, May 23 DeviantArt's Ashleyisthebomb shows off a Starburst chewies castle whose individual bricks were melted together with a glue-less hot glue gun: "because there was no glue or anything, it was completely edible. My family and I had fun eating it until we got sick of starbursts, then i threw it out. It took FOREVER and ended up weighing about 60 pounds." Starburst Castle (via IZ Reloaded) Where not otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States and other countries. Continue reading →

Adafruit has an awesome LEGO kit design for Ladyada's Workshop up on LEGO CUUSOO. CUUSOO is a site where people can submit designs for new LEGO sets or vote to support designs that have already been submitted. With enough support, LEGO may eventually turn these into actual production kits. With your support, maybe we can all have the chance to play with a LEGO version of MOSFET, a pick-and-place and a soldering iron. Continue reading →

THE WELLCOME COLLECTION London, United Kingdom I'd recommend the Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road London. The best collection of medical art and paraphernalia in the world, and usually very fascinating and specific temporary exhibitions too. Always worth a visit and often overlooked. Stephen Fry [ @Stephenfry ] Actor, writer and Poet MIDTOWN COMICS New York City, USA Without a doubt, you have to stop by Midtown Comics. They have three shops in Manhattan, each with its own vibe befitting its location, and they’re all packed to the gills with essentials for geeks of every ilk. I even brave the horrors of Times Square to get my comics from them. Ryan Penagos [ @Agent_M ] Executive Editorial Director, Marvel Digital Media Group & Marvel.com THE MUSÉE ... Continue reading →

This Żubr A80 truck by Karwik will be going in my ‘clever techniques’ folder. Especially the use of the new arch for the front wheel and that beautiful texture in the wagon. And let’s not forget the bucket. gambort posted this entry on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012 at 3:00 pm. Posted in the category LEGO, Town, Vehicle You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. Posting your comment. Continue reading →

GeekDad posts a rave review of Titans of Industry, a Kickstarter project by Gozer Games, on Wired.com! GeekDad rates Titans of Industry as “Titanic”, in other words, “quite a good game”. From GeekDad’s review: “Overview: Titans of Industry is another heavy-duty worker placement game set in the 1920s, with players competing to build factories, produce resources, and then sell them at businesses for profit and sweet, sweet victory points. The game is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter; I received a prototype to try out. Who Will Like It? Gamers who enjoy worker placement games, like Belfort or Lords of Waterdeep. While the gameplay is pretty straightforward, keeping track of all your people and resources and buildings can be daunting, so this game is not for ... Continue reading →

Found on Totalgeekdom.com: this awesome wall and ceiling build area, which consists of Lego plates stuck onto convenient surfaces. I’m an avid Lego geek; I love sitting down for a build session whenever I can fit one in. This often means pulling out the bins of Lego bricks and clearing a spot on the floor or a table and having at it. With bricks flying and hands madly building it’s only a short time before robots, dinosaurs and all kinds of fun Lego creations are scurrying about. The downside to this fun is at the end of a build session you have to clean up and put away the bin of Lego bricks and even….gasp… disassemble your new creations! The horror. The solution to this ... Continue reading →