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- Mashup Time: Winnie The Pooh vs. Calvin and Hobbes
- Bang! An Illustration About The History of Everything
- X-Men dropping like flies?
- First look at Thor
- GalacticBinder, The Star Wars Directory. I Need Not 28hrs Days but 30hrs Days! Unrelated: Lightsabers.
| Mashup Time: Winnie The Pooh vs. Calvin and Hobbes Posted: 30 Apr 2010 04:58 PM PDT If you have story tellers in the team the scope of the site obviously broadens. If it weren’t for Robin’s Alien Vs. Pooh entry I would have hesitated posting this. But it’s Friday evening. And my sources all are drunk. Trolling /b/ and sending me the stupidest links in IM. I’m spending the evening with a Russian skank, AKA as vodka. Hey, I’m not coding so no gin for me tonight! And it’s about Calvin & Hobbes. And it’s a mashup. We love mashups here at FG. Did I mention Winnie The Pooh already? Winnie The Pooh Vs. Calvin and Hobbes.
Maybe now the woman who answers Vic-20 when I say C64 will stop teasing me for my [via 9GAG]
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| Bang! An Illustration About The History of Everything Posted: 30 Apr 2010 08:46 AM PDT Now a days people’s entertainment knowledge is given more credit then their science knowledge. Even though it would be better to know how our universe was created then to know all funny quotes of a certain geeky TV show. I’m first to say that I need to beef up my knowledge of relevant things rather then filling my brains with information that won’t make it in any school books in the future. Most of us geeks are fans of the TV show The Big Bang Theory but until recently I could only tell you that the Big Bang was an explosion that created matter and existence. The details where beyond me. One month ago the Large Hadron Collider in CERN collided particles for the first time to recreate the Big Bang, it was all over the news and yet most people where oblivious to what exactly was done at the CERN. I spend at least a couple of hours on Wikipedia reading up on the Bose Higson particle. Now you can learn about the Big Bang with an illustrated and rhyming book, Bang! The Universe Verse, created by twenty-six year old James Lu Dunbar.
The illustration is about an old couple of which the male looks a bit like Albert Einstein. Together they show you the creation of universe while explaining it in rhyme verses.
Well if they explained this to me like this when I was a kid I think chances are very high I would remember it today. Heck I think if everything science was taught like this if you are a kid it is bound to stay with you. According to the author it will be a four part comic book with this one being the first part naturally. You can read the book online for free or buy a paperback version for 12,95 dollars.
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| Posted: 30 Apr 2010 08:44 AM PDT
Well it’s been a rough week for the X-Men, with a number of big names dying this week. Of course, we all know that mutant heaven has revolving doors, but I doubt some of the smaller names will be given the same grace as the more major stars. Still, Illyana has been in worse scrapes, and we must recall that this is not Illyana, merely the DarkChylde. One character I doubt will be receiving a resurrection is that of Ariel, incinerated as a missle hit the car in which she was travelling. Of course Wolverine and X-23 manage to walk out of the wreckage, but Ariel was not so lucky. Her fifteen minutes of fame arrived with her first appearance in the Fallen Angels back in the late Eighties. Not technically a mutant but an extra-terrestrial from the curiously named world of Coconut Grove, she came to earth on a mission to recruit mutants for research by her race, hoping to create mutations in themselves. Considering that it was implied all of her race had the ability to bend space as she did, this was more than a little greedy.
Ariel switched loyalties when her homeworlders realised that her ability to influence peoples decisions was a mutant power in and of itself, and she returned her allies to Earth. But like the New Mutants supporting character Gossamyr, she vanished into obscurity until recently. How and why she was now part of the X-tribe was never explained, although her return was celebrated here with sentiments close to mine. Was she on the run from Coconut Grove, that hell second only to Hollywood? Or on yet another mission? Will her death have repercussions? Will the Grovers (ooo, bad name, visions of Sesame Street) pursue her, or want revenge for her passing? How would the Earth fight off an invasion of space-benders? Who will the X-Men now rely upon for cutting edge fashion advice (even if it is by way of Dame Edna). It is a crying shame that Ariel’s return to the spotlight has been so very brief. I hope this is not the end we have heard of Coconut Grove.
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| Posted: 30 Apr 2010 07:49 AM PDT Chris Hemsworth, aka James T. Kirk’s dad in last year’s Star Trek, is starring in Marvel Studios’ big-budget adaptation of Thor, for director Kenneth Branagh. Hemsworth appears alongside a killer cast that includes Anthony Hopkins as Thor’s father Odin, Natalie Portman as his human love interest Jane, Ray Stevenson as Volstagg, and Tom Hiddleston as the villainous god of mischief Loki. The movie is filming as we speak, and is scheduled to hit theaters next summer. Hemsworth will reprise his role alongside Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man and Chris Evans as Captain America for Joss Whedon’s 2012 team-up The Avengers. Anyhoo, whether or not an actor is accepted in any iconic role always comes down to how he or she looks, and how their acting choices translate to interpreting the character on screen. It’ll be a while before we see Hemsworth in action, but Yahoo! Movies has today provided our first look at Hemsworth in the title role:
Looks like Thor to me! I love the lighting and composition of this shot, I dig Hemsworth’s hair and beard, and I appreciate that the costume is following the more recent comic book “armored” look rather than the older look that showed more skin. I don’t think we could hope for anything better than this in interpreting Thor live-action. I’m having warm fuzzy feelings towards this movie now. What about you?
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| Posted: 30 Apr 2010 06:40 AM PDT Yesterday evening I received an email like at least 10 others every day. The subject was Love the site! and of course we are pleased whenever we get a similarly titled email but usually… they are bait and the email sender wants something from you whenever the subject is a highly emotional expression of love. Of course I was right in my judgement of the email subject:
But there was something about this email. First let me tell you that I get at least 15-20 emails every day of people who think their stuff is cool enough to be listed on FG (14-19 are PR agencies looking for some love on some 3000 or more sites). But there was something about the email. Something more than a site owner asking for a link and some promotion. Something… Star Wars. I should have known better but against better judgement I decided to mark the email as unread and said to myself that I would visit the site before going to bed. Actually I managed to finish work rather early yesterday and around 01.30AM I was about to hit the pillow. I had even caught up with V. This was going to be my early night of the month. Boy was I wrong. GalacticBinder.com, Star Wars Directory and news. Of course the first thing I did was check out our own listing in the category Pop Culture. Now let me tell you that if as a site owner you place ForeverGeek next to Den of Geek and Empire Online, you are doing everything right in my little book. You make my day. But what about lightsabers?
If more so you have awesome Star Wars News and a blog with lots of Star Wars swagalicious, what you actually do is steal away lots of time of my life. And of my sleep. But after having reduced my ‘early night of the month’ to less than 4 hours I left disappointed. Disappointed because I did not get enough lightsabers! That’s right, I had hoped to see more lightsabers and recently there have been some awesome drawings with lightsabers. And Darth Vader. And Batman. To say that creating a mashup of Batman and Darth Vader epic is would be an understatement. But what if you add lightsabers? It seems that rumours of a Dark Horse – Batman cross-over comic could become reality? Who knows whether the dream of many a nerd, no I do not mean that bikini, will finally be realised. What we already do have is this awesome drawing by Dave Dorman. Lightsabers and Batman. Can it get better? Maybe not better but it certainly doesn’t get worse if you throw sharks in the mix, does it?
Via iheartchaos. Pete, from GalacticBinder, this is to you: you actually just stole more than 4 hours of my life but I do NOT want them back! I want 2 hours a day more so I can browse those more than 1000 sites in your directory. Well done, awesome site man! Still… needz moar lightsabers though.
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