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I never really got into the whole Bioshock thing, but the Big Daddy suit has always intrigued me, even more so since I saw the trailer for Bioshock 2, with the suit leaving only mass destruction in its wake. So naturally, when I saw the awesomeness of the Big Daddy, mashed together with the bricktastic building capabilities of LEGOs, my ...

Once upon a time, Sesame Street was the epicenter of my childhood memories. But now, thanks to this new Friendly Beasts t-shirt design, any hope I had at retaining that nostalgia has been dashed. Friendly Beasts reexamines the beasts of Sesame Street as, well, pretty much what they are: beasts. These scientifically correct animal caricatures�reevaluate�everything we thought we knew about ...

Us hardcore geeks need our own equivalent of the Boy Scouts, just�because�there is no way we’re spending any more than half-an-hour outdoors without any of our techy needs. We’re better suited for the Swiss Peace Knife than the Swiss Army Knife. How long could you go without your iPhone… or WoW? Seriously, God forbid I go a day without WoW. ...

Quirk Classics, publishers of both Pride and�Prejudice�and Zombies, and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters is getting geared up to release their next satirical work, this time taking aim at Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina with the aptly named Android Karenina. Ben H. Winters retells the classic through the eyes of, well, pretty much a geek. Including plenty of sensual android ...

While I’m sure many of you already know about the amazing service known as Chatroulette, I thought I’d introduce it to the three or four of you who don’t already know. Basically, it’s like Russian Roulette, with less bloodshed and much more penis. Chatroulette lets you view a random users webcam from around the world, allowing you to unshamefully skip ...

Enough is enough already. Can’t a superhero dressed in a Batsuit get a little privacy around here. Handle it yourself Gotham! The game is on! I’m not positive, but I think this means he’s not coming. Link [via]

I’d love if this thing could actually respond to your drink requests. Like “wait… you’re a man right? What’s with the fruity cocktail Mr. Tough Guy?” The aptly named Drink Making Unit can mix drinks with up to three�components. An 8�8 RGB LED matrix is integrated for use as a data display, and an ice bucket chills your drink as ...

Call it culturally�stifling. Call it disgustingly sexist and a shame on the feminist movement. Just don’t forget to call it sexy! Burqa Babes is on its way to an iPhone near you. With all of the fully-covered ladies you can handle, all for $1.99. Developer Elam Nikserof explains his case: “I want to stimulate the imagination first,” said Nikserof. “There’s ...

There’s nothing more thrilling than the mass slaughter of innocent fishies. Dump your oil in that lake. Piss in that stream all you want. Yeah, baby, that’s the stuff. The Goldfish Trash bag lets you feel like a real man, conquering nature at its best, showing those damn smug goldfish just who’s running things around here. I mean, come one, ...

Cornell University’s James Cutting has a theory about Hollywood blockbusters. To be a really engaging potential classic, a movie needs to follow the 1/f�fluctuation, a mathematical theory that attempts to solve the mystery of attention spans. In his research, Cutting measured the shot length of the 150 highest-grossing movies between 1935 and 2005. He then graphed the varying shot lengths ...