oxide7 writes "Starting from August 1, internet users will have to register using their real names for playing online games, China Daily reported on Saturday. The regulation, issued by the Ministry of Culture on June 22, is said to be ...

Slimer Stormtrooper helmet by Nicole Falk for the TK Project.*Buy Ghostbusters toys at Amazon. See the original post here: Slimer Stormtrooper helmet

Not long ago it was rumored that Adrien Brody was in talks to take on the lead role in Edgar Wright's Ant-Man film. Turns out that never was the case because Wright said so. But it seems like Brody has ...

theodp writes "Remember those old Lifecall commercials? Well, you've come a long way, Grandma! The NY Times reports on a raft of new technology that's making it possible for adult children to remotely monitor to a stunningly precise degree the ...

I'm sure you've all seen the new trailer for Tron: Legacy by now, if not get your ass in gear and watch it now! This trailer was pretty freakin' incredible, and it got us all crazy excited for the movie. ...

An anonymous reader writes "At the annual SIGGRAPH show, Microsoft Research showed new technology that can remove the blur from images on your camera or phone using on-board sensors — the same sensors currently added to the iPhone 4. No ...

Stormtrooper helmet covered in cute doodles by Katie Cook for the TK Project.*Buy Katie Cook sketch cards at eBay. Go here to see the original: Stormtrooper helmet customized by Katie Cook

Here is the U.S. poster for Gasper Noe's first film since Irreversible, Enter The Void. I had a chance to see this movie at The Sundance Film Festival, and it was the most insane trippy film I think I've ever ...

It was reported a few months ago that Fox has approached Robert Rodriquez to direct the upcoming Deadpool movie. Rodriquez himself admits that Fox sent him an early draft of the script to read to help him make up his mind, ...

Lego Red Bull Air Racer by Ed Dimnet. (I love the Red Bull Air Race.) Via.*Buy Lego minifigs at eBay. See the original post: Lego Red Bull Air Racer

How long have you been waiting for new iMacs or Mac Pros? What about the Cinema Display? How about free iPhone 4 cases? For ...

pitchpipe writes "A puzzling pattern in the cosmic rays bombarding Earth from space has been discovered by an experiment buried deep under the ice of Antarctica. [...]it turns out these particles are not arriving uniformly from all directions. The new ...

wooferhound writes "Sophisticated synthesizers and computer-manipulated recordings are increasingly taking over orchestras. Sounding almost like real players, while costing much less, they're especially popular with provincial or touring companies. But until mid-July — when 'West Side Story's' producers announced that ...

Three book covers by Buchanan-Smith. Links are to Amazon:CathedralSpeck: A Curious Collection of Uncommon ThingsA Shortcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer Via these sites. Go here to see the original: Book covers by Buchanan-Smith

Bus-shaped packaging for Children's Tylenol. Here's a gallery of several more vintage vehicle-shaped packaging. Via.*Buy the Little Book of Big Packaging Ideas at Amazon. Go here to see the original: Vintage Tylenol Children's Packaging

hasanabbas1987 writes "It's just been a few months since a 45-gigapixel panorama of Dubai claimed the title of world's largest digital photograph, but it's now already been well and truly ousted — the new king in town is this 70-gigapixel, ...

Todd McFarlane's Spawn has become quite successful over the last several years as a comic, an animated series, and a movie that really wasn't that good. You may or may not know that Neil Gaiman played a part in creating ...

Steven Speilberg's Abraham Lincoln biopic is a film I've been looking forward to seeing since I first heard Spielberg wanted to make it. He's been talking about it for years, and he's said that he would finally start working on ...

What if Law & Order was a science fiction show? I imagine  Law & Order: Space Crimes would make most fans lives complete. Personally, if it took place in space and had robots and aliens I think it would still ...

destinyland writes "For the first time, the majority of cell phones are accessing data services — 53 percent, compared to only 42 percent last year, according to a new study by Validas. And each user downloads an average of 145.8 ...

China Mieville answered several questions about his detective novel The City and The City.Maps of The City and The City exist: I did indeed draw them: three maps in fact. One the physical outlines of streets, then two maps that ...

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From Judge Barbara Crabb's finding that Todd McFarlane stole Neil Gaiman's character:The two characters are similar enough to suggest that either Dark Ages (McFarlane) Spawn is derivative of Medieval (Gaiman) Spawn or it is the same character to which plaintiff ...

josath writes "Texas Instruments' flagship calculator, the Nspire, was hacked to allow user-written programs earlier this year. Earlier this month, TI released an update to the OS that runs on the calculator, providing no new features, but only blocking the ...

This has been the week of StarCraft 2, whether you're playing the single-player game, trying to improve your online rank, or just complaining about ...

Movie posters by Olly Moss for the 2010 Alamo Drafthouse/Levi’s Rolling Roadshow tour: Jackie Brown, Dirty Harry, There Will Be Blood, Convoy, The Blues Brothers, Robocop, Rocky, On the Waterfront, and Godfather.Via.*Buy Olly Moss posters at eBay. Here is the ...

eldavojohn writes "Gizmodo's got an interesting scoop on a list of IPs acquired from Peer Block revealing who is downloading the Facebook user data torrented this week: Apple, the Church of Scientology, Disney, Intel, IBM and several major government contractors ...

Download the BP oil slick monster here.BP fish oil supplements by Luke Bott, who has various prints on sale at Etsy. Via. Go here to see the original: Oil slick monster; BP brand fish oil supplements

TravisTR sends word of research from Bloomberg New Energy Finance which found that direct subsidies for renewable energy from governments worldwide totaled $43-46 billion in 2009, an amount vastly outstripped by the $557 billion in fossil fuel subsidies during 2008. "The ...

Trailrunner7 writes "Microsoft will issue an out-of-band patch on Monday for a critical vulnerability in all of the current versions of Windows. The company didn't identify which flaw it will be patching, but the description of the vulnerability is a ...

pcardno writes "The UK government has responded to a petition encouraging government departments to move away from IE6 that had over 6,000 signatories. Their response seems to be that a fully patched IE6 is perfectly safe as long as firewalls ...

Ahoy bastards! Since we know your appetite for Captain America: The First Avenger news is insatiable we’ve got two brief tidbits to hold you over. Last week at Comic-Con during the Captain America panel it was mentioned that the story’s antagonist ...

Kanye West tweets. Read the original, in all its glory, right here: Why Twitter Must Be Stopped

drbutts writes "The Toronto Star has an interesting story on how they are securing DNS: It's housed in two high-security facilities separated by the North American landmass. The one authenticated map of the Internet. Were it to be lost — ...

Fox Searchlight Pictures has announced that Darren Aronofsky's new film Black Swan, will get a limited release in select cities on December 1st. Just in time for Oscar season. Aronofsky directed the film from a script written by Mark Heyman, and the film stars Natalie Portman, Mila ...