World’s Most Kick Ass Insert Coin Animation With Real Coins
I remember playing the arcade games, especially the pinball machines, in the arcade halls when I was younger. Unfortunately, most of them were closed and shut down long ago. The magic of entering a hall full of 8-bit music and people cheering for each other is what I miss the most, and I have no i ...
Star Wars Typography: Darth Vader Created With His Quotes
They say all good things come in threes, and since we've featured two articles so far with Star Wars inspired typography, I thought I'd top it off today with a third. Although Richard's articles about the Boba Fett Typography and the Star Wars Ad Campaign Typography were awesome in their own right, ...
Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal Like You’ve Never Seen
As Randy Jackson says on American Idol... "Dawg pound, we got a hot one tonight!" This unbelievable video has only been on YouTube for ten days, and it has almost 2 million views. I'd say that certainly qualifies as viral, and boy does it deserve it!
We are all familiar with Michael Jackson's S ...
Fascinating Tree Bark From Around The World
Trees are truly one of Mother Nature's many miracles. If you do a quick Google search for tree facts, you'll find some very interesting information that you probably never knew before, or at least I did.
Back in 2009, I remember seeing the Redwood tree on the cover of National Geographic. That pi ...
Recycling: Old Plastic Toys Get A New Life As A Dog
If you have young children, you probably know what it's like to have itty-bitty toys all around your house. Whether it's little plastic numbers, pieces of broken figures or used crayons, that stuff just seems to accumulate everywhere. My son, who is ten years old, has gotten to the age where he is ...
Photography: Abandoned and Lonely World War II Bunkers
Normally the words "beautiful" and "war" do not go together in the same sentence. However, this stunning photography of old abandoned World War II bunkers is truly beautiful, in a historic kind of way.
When I was attending University, for a short while, I was a history major. I changed my studi ...
Egypt: A Nation Forced Offline
Since this is not a political blog, we don't usually write about what happens in the governments around the world. However, we do write about social media, and when the government in a country completely shuts off access to not only Twitter and Facebook, but all the Internet, it becomes almost our ...
How To: Make a Beating Origami Heart for Your Valentine
Valentine's Day will be here soon, and if you are like most people, you haven't yet figured out the perfect gift for your sweetheart. We tell our sweeties all year long how much we love them, but then the one day comes when we are supposed to show them with a gift, and suddenly it gets all stressfu ...
A Wedding In Cold Water: Would You Get Married Here?
When you spend all day surfing the Internet looking for interesting material, like I do, you come across some pretty unusual things that people do. I always say that after some of the things I've read, nothing surprises me anymore. However, usually as soon as I say that, I read something that make ...
This Family Unplugged For 6 Months & Lived To Tell About it
Hmm... unplugging for six months? Are you kidding me? I can't even imagine unplugging for one week. I'm so connected to my online world that I sleep with my phone. I'm not the only one though, as it turns out, it's a habit that a lot of people have. Technology and our gadgets are no longer part of o ...
Squeeze Me: The Coolest Music Video Flipbook Ever
Music videos are getting more and more creative by the day, and I truly enjoy that. I remember not too long ago when music videos were just a bunch of exclusive mansions, high definition footage and a whole lot of girls. However, that has somewhat shifted in the last few years. We have started to ...
Add Some Happy Sunshine To Your Life Today!
If there is one thing I will always remember about the winter of 2011, it will be the unseasonably cold weather. Here in the south, we aren't used to it being so cold for so long, and I'm very excited for spring to come back! Yesterday, we got a glimpse of it. It was sunny and beautiful outside. ...
Why Knot? The Geek Way to Tie a Necktie
Have you ever noticed that a lot of times in movies, the woman makes a romantic gesture to her man by seductively walking up to him in the morning and tying his necktie? I've always been fascinated by that because I don't understand it. I actually don't understand why some men have to wear ties in ...
How Important Is Your Twitter Username?
I remember back in the 6th grade, Calvin Klein jeans were very popular. All the girls in "the club" wore them, and I begged my mother to take me shopping for a pair so I could be cool. Now that I'm an adult, I'm noticing that there are still things in life that can make us cool, but it's no longer a ...
Alertron: The Bluetooth Babysitter For Your Phone
It's interesting to me that as the number of gadgets we get grows, so do the number of products that help us keep up with them. We depend on our technology for almost everything these days, and it's only natural that we would lose our gadgets from time to time. Last week I wrote about a remote con ...