When I first saw this Pepcid Complete commercial parodying a fast food restaurant, I immediately scoured the internet to find out who was the adorable actress playing Debra the cashier. Everything about her exudes cuteness: her eyes, her voice, even the little gap between her teeth. Unfortunately, all I found was a lot of other people desperately searching for her as well. Eventually the commercial stopped airing and I stopped

Blood of the Cybermen is the second of four episode length games available for free from the BBC website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/theadventuregames) if you live in the U.K. that is. For those of you who live across the pond, you’ll need to use a proxy website to download the game, see my guide to the first game: Doctor Who: The Adventure Games – City of the Daleks Blood of the Cybermen is

It was almost as if Futurama was never cancelled. The voice actors, the animation, the writing, all were as great as ever. The only noticeable change was a complete disregard for any censorship. In the premiere episode “Rebirth” the entire Planet Express crew showed off their birthday suits covered in a fresh coat of stem cells. It’s ok though, they were harvested from adults, who were murdered for their stem

Designed to looked like actual X-rays these bare bones calendars are actually a brilliant marketing campaign by EIZO, a Japanese company that manufactures medical displays for the examination and diagnosis of radiographs (i.e., X-rays). EIZO says their intention is to break the taboo that pin-up calendars are only for craftsmen. If the models seem similar, it’s because they were pieced together from individual bone X-rays since receiving full-body X-rays would

The Science Channel’s new series Through the Wormhole looks at life’s big mysteries, and what bigger mystery is there than “Is There a Creator?” In this premiere episode, astronomer Rich Terrile takes intelligent design to a whole new level by suggesting that God is a programmer and we are the program. Quantum Mechanics, the branch of mathematical physics that deals with atomic and subatomic systems, shows that when you zoom

Live-action and animated characters rarely work well together but I gotta admit the Smurfs look great in 3D! They have a real grittiness to them but they’re as cute as ever. I could just eat them up! And unlike similar hybrid moves like Garfield, it’s not only acceptable if the Smurfs look like they don’t belong in this world, it’s expected. I was also skeptical of the premise that Gargamel

Digimon Battle (digimonbattle.wemade.net) is the “newest” game based on the popular animated series Digimon, but it’s actually been out since 2002 in Korea, which explains why the player avatars and starter Digimon (Gigimon, Gummymon, or Viximon) are from the Digimon Tamers series of the same period

Hallmark has pulled a graduation card from stores after cries of racism by the NAACP. The space-themed card includes an audio message that exclaims, “This graduate’s going to run the world, run the universe, and run everything after that… whatever that is, maybe black holes… you’re so ominous.” But that’s not what the NAACP heard. “You hear the ‘r’ in there. ‘Whores,’ not, ‘holes.’ The ‘r’ is in there,” said

An evil corporation is drilling down to the center of the Earth and only one demon can save Hell. Balthazor Hellman is a lousy demon but thanks to years of watching TV, he’s the perfect infiltrator or as he calls it “SNORFIN” (Seeming NORmal and Fitting IN). Silly acronyms is about as funny as it gets (i.e., not very). The show starts in Hell where Balthazor is torturing a man

The future is finally here! Inspired by a 2008 exhibition called “Back to the Future” French artist Nils Guadagnin set about recreating the floating skateboard featured in the movie Back to the Future II. Guadagnin calls it “a reflexion on the multiple possibilities of how to give a sculpture full spatial autonomy.” That’s my kinda sculpture! The hoverboard can only support 2kg (4.4 lbs.) and it requires magnets beneath it,

The Daleks have exterminated The Beatles! (and everyone else in1963) If the Doctor doesn’t repair the timeline, Amy will disappear with along with the rest of humanity. City of the Daleks is the first of four episodes in Doctor Who: The Adventure Games, available for free (if you live in the UK) @ http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/theadventuregames/ There are no difficulty settings and the game is very easy. A checklist keeps track of

Like all episodes in this season of Doctor Who, “Cold Blood” ended with the same strange crack in time and space that brought the Doctor and and his new companion, Amy Pond, together in the first place. Doctors make the worst patients. The Doctor has given numerous warnings to avoid even looking at, let alone coming into contact with the anomaly lest your entire existence be erased, but that doesn’t