Culture Buzz Warning: This image will give you feelings. Unless you are some jaded monster. You aren't a monster, are you?
Shift Buzz Michael, a 24-year-old who works in finance and likes to collect data, apparently had a strange dating habit: asking women he went out with to fill out a worksheet about how he fared. Naturally, one such woman sent that worksheet on to Deadspin! Here it is for your enjoyment/embarrassment for all involved.
TV Buzz This 50-minute YouTube clip contains 56 “Star Trek” episodes from the 1966-69 series. Perfect for the multi-tasking Trekkie or geeky housefly.
Culture Buzz From the absurdly titled BBC show “World Series of Dating,” an awkward moment is salvaged by the discovery of a common interest in being great big nerds. I see a bright future for these two. (via kotaku.com)
Music Buzz She's 8, she kind of acts like a robot, but she has about a 14-octave range.
Science Buzz And you thought “Twister” was bad! Last week, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite captured these stunning images of magnetically captured plasma moving like a tornado across the sun's surface. But even more stunning than this video of the solar tornado are its statistics: it's estimated to be about as large as Earth itself, with wind gusts approaching 300,000 mph and a temperature of 15,000 degrees fahrenheit. Uh… wow.
http://www.good.is/post/people-are-awesome-meet-the-world...
People are awesome. Ben Shaw lost both his eyes to a roadside bomb while on duty in Iraq, but with a little help from a friend it won’t stop him from his hobby.
And here I thought she couldn't get more adorable than she already was.
Tech Buzz Well, it was nice to have my life back for little while. Once more into the breach, my friends!
Music Buzz Need more DoTs! Stop attacking the spawns, guys. Seriously.
Dick Figures' Red and Blue get their quest on. “A tweedle COCK and tweedle BALLS, holy sparkles, bubble gum.”
There's more than one way to play the game. A student-run choir puts together a live performance of music from the video game, “World of Warcraft” for full orchestra and choir.
Business Insider has a wonderful shot of the shoes Palin was sporting at a speaking event in Long Island yesterday. Not what you were expecting, but: Rawr!
http://sororitygirlplayswow.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/love...
Advice on how to get a non-gamer girl to play World of Warcraft without freaking her out.
How did it take cats all the way up until now to get around to playing World Of Warcraft? Maybe they were just perfecting their technique. This guy's clearly got it down.
As a WoW addict and former Little Mermaid fanatic, I approve of this on multiple levels.
And he'll happily kill to get it. No one gets between a man and his Cataclysm expansion.
Culture Buzz Nerds are the best. Looking through these galleries just confirms what I've always known - these are my people.
http://www.wow.com/2010/07/30/the-maelstrom-is-probably-e...
A week or so ago, someone on the Cataclysm beta forums complained that the Maelstrom's appearance in the upcoming expansion just wasn't epic enough. It's a pretty silly thing to say. Re: The M
Finally, a good reason to play with your food. This is hands down the coolest thing you could ever do with BBQ ribs, besides eat them of course. (Via)
Hundreds of pounds of feathers, rising, swirling and settling in a 50-feet installation—Tokujin Yoshioka’s “snow” aims to evoke the snowscapes of our memories.
The Plastiki, a boat made out of 12,500 recycled plastic bottles, completed its tour after it docked at the Sydney Harbour. The boat spent four difficult months crossing the Pacific Ocean on a journey that was meant to raise awareness about the perils of plastic waste.
http://epod.usra.edu/.a/6a0105371bb32c970b0134841730c5970...
How things like this fall down is beyond me.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=259...
Trolls can breath easy…for now.
Real ID reveals what had previously been a refuge for some A-listers. Even in a virtual world, celebrities are just like us.