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Nikola Tesla is 150 Today

July 11, 2006 by Dave

“He had no hobby, cared for no sort of amusement of any kind and lived in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene” –Nikola Tesla, about Thomas Edison Nikola Tesla, my favorite scientist and the guy who really defined “mad scientist”, had his 150th birthday today. (No doubt, of course, that he is […]

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YouTubes of the Week: More than Meets the Eye

July 11, 2006 by Dave

From… to…

Filed Under: Movies, Television, YouTube Tuesday

YouTube of the Week: Big Lebowski Mutant Ninja Turtles

July 5, 2006 by Dave

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More Geeks in Love

July 2, 2006 by Dave

Congratulations to Critical-Hitters Bartoneus and Sucilaria on their recent marriage! While they are on honeymoon, there will be no Random Encounters column. And if you want to send your best wishes, I’m sure they’ll be logged on to WoW at some point during the honeymoon ๐Ÿ˜‰

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YouTube of the Week: The Game is Never Over, for Mario

June 27, 2006 by Dave

Bonus Short YouTube: Psycho Crusher FTW!

Filed Under: Video Games, YouTube Tuesday

Good news everyone!

June 23, 2006 by Dave

Like Family Guy before it, Futurama is returning with new episodes! Cancelled before its time (like oh so many other awesome Fox shows), Comedy Central will be making at least one complete new season. We already knew there were going to be some straight to DVD movies… but this is totally awesome news. My second […]

Filed Under: News, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Television

Dragonlance to become animated movie

June 23, 2006 by Dave

If there was an official announcement, it slipped under my rader. But there will be an animated Dragonlance movie made by paramount based on the book series (and D&D setting.) Lucy Lawless will be doing the voice of Goldmoon the Cleric, the disciple of healing god Mishikal, and first post-Cataclysm good cleric (no wonder no […]

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YouTube of the Week: Taking the Hobbits to Isengard

June 20, 2006 by Dave

Filed Under: Movies, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, YouTube Tuesday

Holy crap, it's Neil Gaiman! part 2

June 19, 2006 by Bartoneus

As was mentioned before, a situation such as this is perhaps why it was better that we did not encounter the noble author. Having no real prior template to pull from, I have little doubt in my abilities to say extremely stupid things to very powerful people. Neil Gaiman, being an epic-level Author / Rockstar, […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, The Architect DM

YouTube of the Week: Olaf's LotR Voiceover

June 13, 2006 by Dave

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Filed Under: Movies, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, YouTube Tuesday

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