Archive: July 23, 2008
stephen-hawking-photo

World-renown physicist Stephen Hawking is recreated here using classic LEGO bricks and pieces. [via] If you don’t know how Stephen Hawking looks like in real life, you can use the photo below as reference.

batpod

I officially have Batman-fever. Ever since watching The Dark Knight yesterday, I can’t stop thinking about how fantastic the movie was. Batman is a hero with many gadgets, and one of the most impressive gadgets he uses is the Batpod (or Batcycle). The History Channel has produced and aired a segment about the technology behind [...]

M.O.P. (Mash-out Posse) is an American rap duo who have a somewhat popular hip-hop song entitled “Ante Up”. Here is a video mashup of Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street singing along to “Ante Up”. They do a pretty great job of being gangsta.

konk-kooks

I’ve been listening to The Kooks a lot lately, especially their latest album Konk which came out in April of this year. The album has substantially positive reviews all around and rightly so. The tunes on this record are catchy, upbeat, and full of rock. But personally, I think I’ve been listening to them a [...]

china-building-for-olympics

AP Photo/Greg Baker Lately, whenever I see photos of Beijing under massive construction in preparation for the 2008 Olympics, I compare it to the World Trade Center site (ground zero) and realize how sad it is that progress has been so slow there in the past couple of years. The new headquarters for China’s CCTV [...]

No one dare say it because Watchmen is supposedly some crazy-awesome classic graphic novel, but I’m gonna put it out there just for the record. The Watchmen trailer is terrible. This does not look like a good movie at all. Am I the only person who thinks this?