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Fri, 17 May 2013 23:26:45 -0400

OH CRAIG SAGER, YOU CARD.

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:58:53 -0400

“My mind,” he said, “rebels at stagnation. Give me problems,...

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:53:53 -0400

“My mind,” he said, “rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.” - Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four

YOU DON’T SAY. Cue the Republican outrage. Amirite?

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:50:36 -0400

YOU DON’T SAY.

Cue the Republican outrage. Amirite?

Gizmodo says it would cost $478,947,711,160 to build the starship Enterprise.

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:36:23 -0400

Gizmodo says it would cost $478,947,711,160 to build the starship Enterprise.: Good thing that in...

With cicadas set to emerge from the ground this year after a...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:46:11 -0400

With cicadas set to emerge from the ground this year after a 17-year sleep, WNBC TV here in New York City did something neat: they followed up on a couple they had interviewed during the last great cicada invasion in 1996. Then they went a step further and dug up a news piece from 1979 on the same issue. From the ridiculous Star Trek-inspired set to the sit-down stand-up by the correspondent, this segment is a real blast from the TV news past.

Dubai. (Photo by Daniel Cheong / Hot Spot Media via The...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:36:26 -0400

Dubai. (Photo by Daniel Cheong / Hot Spot Media via The Telegraph)

You guys go and do this awesomely nerdy thing that Slate did.

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:52:00 -0400

You guys go and do this awesomely nerdy thing that Slate did.

So the San Francisco Giants baseball team agreed to a $4 million contract with pitcher Jeremy...

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:14:02 -0400

So the San Francisco Giants baseball team agreed to a $4 million contract with pitcher Jeremy...

“O HAI, IT’S ME JJ, I MADE YOU A DOPE MOVIE YO,...

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:01:33 -0400

“O HAI, IT’S ME JJ, I MADE YOU A DOPE MOVIE YO, IT’S FRESH, IT’S REBOOTED STAR TREK AND IT’S AIIIIIGHT, GO SEE IT AND I’LL SIGN YOUR PICTURE WITH THIS HERE RETRACTABLE SHARPIE, IT MAKES CLICKING SOUNDS AND DOESN’T HAVE OR NEED A CAP LIKE A TRADITIONAL SHARPIE, IT’S LIKE A REBOOTED SHARPIE AND I’M HEAVY INTO REBOOTS, YOU KNOW WHAT I’M SAYING, HEY ANYWAY LET ME GET BACK TO AUTOGRAPHING PIX, WHAT IS THIS GIRL STARING AT OFF IN THE DISTANCE, GO SEE STAR TREK BECAUSE IT’S TOTES MAGOTES AWESOME, LIKE A SHAVEN TRIBBLE! K THX BAI!”

(Photo of JJ Abrams at the London premiere of Star Trek Into Darkness via TreksIntoSciFi.com)

Disney quietly backtracks, won't reboot Merida from "Brave"

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:37:18 -0400

Disney quietly backtracks, won't reboot Merida from "Brave": In related news, Disney no longer...

I know today’s Friday, but I’ll go on record and say my favorite day this week was...

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:23:49 -0400

I know today’s Friday, but I’ll go on record and say my favorite day this week was...

LeBron James, left, of the Miami Heat was guarded by Jimmy...

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:23:48 -0400

LeBron James, left, of the Miami Heat was guarded by Jimmy Butler, right, of the Chicago Bulls during Game Five of the Eastern Conference Semifinals of the 2013 NBA Playoffs on Wednesday in Miami. The Heat won 94-91. (Photo: Mike Ehrmann / Getty Images via The Wall Street Journal)

“The next Star Wars should be two hours of nothing but...

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:41:17 -0400

“The next Star Wars should be two hours of nothing but Lando.”

So Microsoft’s Bing does one thing better than Google: it...

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:28:24 -0400

So Microsoft’s Bing does one thing better than Google: it translates shit into Klingon.

Is it funny that some dude decided to give away clothing, made by a company whose CEO is a fucking...

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:09:48 -0400

Is it funny that some dude decided to give away clothing, made by a company whose CEO is a fucking...

WHEN IT RAINS… President Obama is seen at a press...

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:25:13 -0400

WHEN IT RAINS… President Obama is seen at a press conference on Thursday calling for Congress to help bolster security at U.S. Embassies. Republican seagulls were seen in the skies above, trying to poop on him. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times)

No word yet on who President Obama will appoint to temporarily head up the Internal Revenue Service. But we have it on no good authority that he will be wearing a tricorner hat and waving a Gadsden flag.

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:34:00 -0400

FLASH BURDEN Images captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics...

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:58:15 -0400

FLASH BURDEN Images captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory of the Sun’s active region AR1748 has produced the first four X-class solar flares of 2013 in less than 48 hours, all seen here in the extreme ultraviolet range. (Photo: SDO via NASA APOD)

MASHABLE: "Police were called to calm Star Wars and Doctor Who fans at a science fiction convention in Norwich, UK, after the two groups got into a heated argument, the BBC reports."

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:20:12 -0400

MASHABLE: "Police were called to calm Star Wars and Doctor Who fans at a science fiction convention...