Over at Nerd Dads, we’re getting our geek on with these quality posts:
We look at an amazing ad campaign for “Twilight” that came with our Sunday paper
Andrew discovered that nowadays Underoos are fun to wear if you’re a millionaire
We discover the world’s freakiest commercial aimed at kids
We decide we’d like to spend our “Summer Days [...]
Really? Is it any surprise to anyone that they have loads of this in the local dollar stores right now?
I should have bought some…
Spread the word!
This is pretty cool – Zazzle has recently added the ability for folks to design their own skateboard decks. After spending about 45 minutes mucking about, I ended up with these two beauties.
Pretty badass, eh? I’m assuming the quality to be fairly good as far as the printing goes, but I haven’t found any reviews [...]
Once again, big entertainment announces they’ll be doing something awesome, then panics and overcompensates with their online security causing frustration and annoyance among viewers, limiting their potential moneymaking abilities. This time around, NBC online gets the booby prize. After making big announcements and running advertisements about allowing people to watch the entire Olympics online, NBC [...]
Sports Illustrated’s website is currently hosting a “Tale of the Tape” comparison betwixt the Olympic’s insanely fast runner, Usain Bolt (the commentator’s description was that he was running at video game speeds) and DC’s Flash. It’s actually a pretty fun, well put together little feature.
The only comparison I see missing is the fact that Wally [...]
After reading this article on the new LZR swimsuits worn at the Olympics, two things immediately pop into my head.
One: it’s fucking awesome that Speedo was faced with a conundrum and did the right thing by essentially opensourcing their new technology. Definitely a lesson to be learned here for other major companies, as they still [...]
I’m going to make the assumption that everyone’s heard of Michael Phelps by now. Apparently the world’s most popular super human is responsible for this being an insanely watched Olympics, with over 40 million people tuning in to see his final race this past Saturday. Again – 40 Million People! On a weekend! Without [...]
There’s been a lot of pomp and circumstance surrounding this year’s Baseball All-Star Game because of where the game is taking place: Yankee Stadium. This is the last year of the historic park, with the Yanks set to move into new, cursed-by-buried-Red-Sox-jersey digs next summer.
Not everyone will miss the old park, it seems.
Today’s All-Stars have [...]
