Why is it against the law to sell chewing gum or to not flush a toilet in Singapore, but completely legal to smoke pot ...

Way back in... 2007, I co-authored

While most Americans are awaiting the conclusion of the two-part Doctor Who, ‘The Almost People’ premiering this Saturday at 9pm on BBC America, the Brits and a few pirate-Americans are looking forward to the mid-season finale, ‘A Good Man Goes ...

I knew it! I knew the same man who created the best saga in the galaxy couldn’t have been responsible for the prequels and that shameful Indiana Jones flick! Now, the truth is revealed.In this fake-trailer (Wait, what? It really ...

It had to happen sooner or later, zombies and musicals are both magical in their own unique ways. Mashing them together was only a matter linking the love of a gory head-shot with the lyrics and toe tapping music of ...

After being canceled by NBC, The Event show’s creator Nick Wauters and executive producer Steve Stark toldfans that there was a possibility for the sci-fi drama to continue elsewhere. Looks like it might be happening at the SyFy channel in the ...

An anonymous reader writes "An article at Ten Ton Hammer has an interesting take on the current state of the MMO genre; not too doom-and-gloomy, but it makes some good points. Ultimately, it's about how games that foster community the ...

Passion Play comes from Image Entertainment. This movie on Blu-ray was a nice watch but sometimes kind of difficult to believe.Passion Play stars Micky Rourke as  musician Nate Pool who has bad luck and a gangster named Happy out to get him. Happy ...

Everybody as a kid loved Hanna Barbera cartoons. The company put out numerous titles over the years which brings me to Challenge of the Gobots, which originally started out as a toy line from Hasbro. You know, I think I might ...

Check out my latest Versus interview with director Thomas Churchill over on GeekTyrant. Be sure to check out Emerging Past on DVD on June 7th. Here is the original post: Interview: Director Thomas Churchill Vs. Brian S

There's been a little news lately about the third installment in Vin Diesel's Riddick series. Now, director David Twohy has talked more about Riddick 3 a little more saying; The hurdles seem to be dropping. The final turn is being rounded. ...

An anonymous reader writes "The Ministry of Defence says they are working on a range of offensive cyber weapons to increase the country's defensive capabilities. The armed forces minister, Nick Harvey, says, 'The consequences of a well planned, well executed ...

Zynga's Newest Social Game Lets You Fight Your Friends All sizes | 117/365 AdaD | Flickr - Photo Sharing! Roguedolls Diary Originally posted here: Links for 2011-06-01 [del.icio.us]

An anonymous reader writes "According to recent benchmarks by Phoronix, using the GNOME Shell will cause a large performance hit when running OpenGL games on Linux. Using Unity and GNOME Shell are also hitting various bugs in the open-source drivers." ...

StormDriver writes "Basically, Fujisawa SST is envisioned as a bottom-up approach to energy efficiency — a green village built from scratch with modern green technologies rather than less-efficient older tech. Panasonic wants to use it as a template for other ...

astroengine writes "When considering the fuel source for a fusion-powered interstellar probe, wouldn't it be a good idea to set up a colony on the moon and start pillaging the lunar surface for its helium-3 riches? Not so fast, says ...

In a surprise announcement at Computex in Taiwan, AMD unveiled its plans to produce a Bulldozer-based APU, codenamed Trinity. The company also launched its ...

jfruhlinger writes "A North Korean defector claims that the secretive totalitarian state is nurturing a team of "cyberwarriors," identifying young people with computer skills and sending them abroad to learn the latest hacking techniques, while lavishing privileges on their families ...

At the D9 conference today, Steve Sinofsky, President of Windows and Windows Live at Microsoft, gave the first look at ...

That's right!  Just a reminder that I'll randomly give away some ALIEN BEE t-shirts on Facebook in the month of June. You have to "Like" the Alien Bee Facebook page to be eligible to win, that's all you have to do. All ...

inflamed writes "The Canadian government has announced a consultation period concerning its secretive plans to "integrate" the US-Canada border systems. Last on the list of topics for consultation, but foremost in importance, is the issue of cybersecurity. With the deadline ...

Dimension has changed the release date for APOLLO 18 for the fifth time people. The new date is set for September 2nd.  The movie is directed by Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego and looks pretty cool for what they've shown so far.  Synopsis: Officially, Apollo 17 ...

Calling all Dr. Who fans! Check out these life size Dalek replicas. the thing stands at 5'3" and is hand built to the color of your choice (using spces and molds from the BBC prop dept.). The replica features a plunger ...

In an effort to avoid costly patent litigation, Microsoft has become the first company to sign up to a crowdsourcing service that seeks to ...

MTV has gotten their nappy paws on the teaser for THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN Part 1 which will be shown in greater detail this weekend on the VMA's. The two part finale will be released in theaters this November 18 ...

Coming Soon and SuperHeroHype has some cool shots of the licensing photos for STAR TREK 2 and THE AVENGERS. These magazine photos will make nay geek or nerd have a joygasm immediately. All this comes form the  Licensing International Expo Who's stoked ...

Turkey vultures, hands down one of the ugliest-faced birds ("It looks like a ballsack!") in a family of ugly-faced birds, are being trained by German police to sniff out dead human bodies in areas much larger/difficult to access than traditional ...

If you'd asked me when I was 10, I would have told you WITHOUT A SHADOW OF A DOUBT that by 2011 we'd all be shooting around in the sky with jetpacks on, crashing into each other, getting sucked into ...

D H NG writes "Google announced that it recently uncovered a campaign to collect users' passwords. The campaign, apparently originating from China, affected what seem to be the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of users including, among others, senior U.S. ...

Scammers based out of China have been hijacking the personal Gmail accounts of "hundreds of users," Google revealed on Wednesday. The company wrote in ...

ClientNine writes "California could collect more than $1 billion a year by taxing Amazon and other online retailers if a bill approved by the Assembly becomes law. Assemblyman Charles Calderon, a Democrat from Whittier, says his legislation doesn't impose a ...

​I managed to get a hold of the David E. Kelley-written, NBC-ordered-and-then-cast-aside-in-shame Wonder Woman pilot over the holiday weekend. After I watched it, I became horribly ill. Was the Wonder Woman pilot to blame? Yes. Absolutely it was. There is ...

Warner Brothers will be teasing Lord of the Rings fans at E3. Attendees will get their first look at LORD OF THE RINGS: WAR IN THE NORTH which  the surprise main character is the big bird Beleram. Video game makers Snowblind ...

Editor’s note: We just wrapped up the first ever Creator Camp as part of the YouTube NextUp program in the U.S., and we felt like we should hand it over to the class itself to tell you all how the ...

With less than 3 weeks until the Green Lantern films release, Blake Lively has come under fire for a set of nude pictures that have hit the net.  Lively, who will be playing Carol Ferris, an important character in the ...