Archive for the ‘Hilarious Technology’ Category

Seriously, the Best Viral Marketing Since Subservient Chicken

Never has YouTube been used by business to create something this awesome. It takes Subservient Chicken to the next level. Enjoy! Click on the pic below to see it @ YouTube: Or, if you can, just watch it below:

Greatest Rube Goldberg Machine Ever?

I have trouble believing that there wasn’t some movie magic and/or behind-the-scenes chicanery to make this video work, but, on appearance alone, it’s bar none the best thing to happen to Rube Goldberg since the invention of the marble.

Will Somebody PLEASE Think of the Mars Rover!

In researching my new novel, I’ve been following International Space Station cosmonaut Maksim Suraev’s blog (kindly translated by the good folks at RT). Suraev’s blog is a fascinating window into life at zero-g, and he’s got a great, easy manner and a good sense of humor — two essential things when you’re cooped up in [...]

My Favorite Story of the Year: Time-Travelers Use Super-Awesome Physics to Sabotage the Large Hadron Collider

I love literature; I’ve pretty much devoted my life to its creation and study; I’ve no regrets. And yet. Sometimes, when perusing the pages of the New York Times, it’s not the stories about writers and their cock-eyed theories that make my heart well with amazement and joy. (Take a look at this utterly homophobic [...]

World of Workcraft — Pitch Perfect WoW Satire

The proof that machinima is growing into an artform of its own. Juvenal would be proud! WeGame.com – WoW Videos  

Virtual Cheating: the Second Life How-To Guide

So the Wall Street Journal featured an article recently on the painful human consequences that may come from living part of one’s life in a virtual world. The graphic on the left, courtesy of the Journal, pretty well maps out the bizarre love triangle featured in the story, but let me give you the quick [...]

Armor For the Fight Against Terror

Ready to lay the smackdown on those e-vile terrorists, but not sure what you should wear? Cory Doctorow has the answer: this spiffy tee! Note: be sure to click on the image so you can read the small print around the image of the eagle. ZOMG! When I went to the web page, they were [...]

Your New Remote Control

Courtesy of Wired magazine, I bring you the future. Apparently, we’ll all be wearing one of these in order to change channels. Obviously, this technology is mostly cool and surprisingly advanced. It’s just funny that one of the things the scientists chose to do with this new device is to use it to change channels [...]


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