Who doesn\’t like a show about freakish time-teleporting dinosaurs that terrorize contemporary humanity? If you haven\’t experienced that kind of bizarro fun, then you haven\’t caught up with BBC America\’s sci-fi series Primeval (also shown on Syfy). The premise revolves around a group of scientists, cops and soldiers investigating temporal riffs around England that have […]
With an anticipated release date of March 16, Dragon Age: Origins — Awakening is ramping up the hype quite nicely. Today, we get a short introduction to Velanna, who joins Anders in the \’Guild of Mages Who Totally Have Some Beef With Everybody. I\’m glad to have more mages available to me in Awakening — […]
I never knew this, but \”Jiffy\” is not just slang… Jiffy is used in different applications for various short, very short, or extremely short periods of time. In informal speech a \”jiffy\” means any unspecified short period of time, as in \”I\’ll be back in a jiffy\”, but in other contexts it has more precise […]
Destructoid says it too well… I can\’t think of anything more to say, other than I wish they\’d finally have a decent sale on the game… I\’m probably the only one that doesn\’t own a copy…. Yes, you read that ludicrous number correctly. 28,981,249,043 zombies have been shot, battered, exploded and otherwise massacred since Left 4 […]
News Flash…. News Flash…. Researchers on Wednesday published a technical paper in the journal Advanced Materials that describes a solar cell made of abundant materials with relatively high efficiency. The cell can convert 9.6 percent of solar energy into electrical energy, a 40 percent boost over current methods. What makes this more remarkable is that […]
Last week there was one critical piece of news: The Lancet, the medical journal that broke the news about the autism-vaccination link, publicly retracted the study due to ethical misconduct and conflicts of interest on the part of the leading researcher. That bears repeating. The study that sparked twelve years of debate about the dangers […]
Windows/Mac/Linux: The latest version of OpenOffice.org, the free and open-source office suite, improves startup times by over 40 percent (by some tests), improves importing and support for password-protected and 2007 office files, and improves many areas of the Calc spreadsheet. You can check out the full feature list at OpenOffice.org, but the majority is nitty-gritty […]
First, Breathe… Â Yes, take a few deep breathes…. You see, we\’re all doomed… Â Yes, indeedy, doomed I say. Â After all, the Macintosh Dashboard is the vector which all viruses will be created with in mind… Â And Windows viruses will disappear due to the popularity of the Dashboard vector…. Â (SLAP)… Â Sorry, I needed that, I was […]