Since beach volleyball's introduction to the Olympics in 1996, female athletes have been required to wear a bikini or a full body suit for cold weather. However, the London 2012 Olympics will allow women to wear less revealing clothes like shirts and shorts. The sport is currently dominated by the western world (United ... [Read More]

Cartoon Network celebrated April Fools' Day as it usually does by replacing anime with Tommy Wiseau's infamously bad movie The Room, or so it seemed. The opening credits were interrupted by the return of the Toonami programming block, which included 11 anime series: Bleach #247, Dragon Ball Z #191, Gundam Wing #10, Tenchi ... [Read More]

Everyone knows Captain America is actually Steve Rogers, a 90-pound weakling who was transformed by the Super-Soldier Serum. The real secret is that he's a comic geek!? Not even the Watcher saw this coming. Avenging Spider-Man #5 opens with a comic within a comic, called Liberty Bonds. The one page comic was written and ... [Read More]

Anchorman Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) made a very classy entrance on Conan this week. After giving an encore of his jazz flute solo, he announced some exclusive news in the most roundabout way possible. "I want to announce this to everyone here in the Americas, to our friends in Spain, Turkey, and the UK, including ... [Read More]

You may have to wait a little longer for the Xbox 720 (durango). A lite version will be released first, according to "MS Nerd" an anonymous blogger who has a knack for forecasting the future of Microsoft (hence the alias). "My understanding is that we'll see a Xbox device in late 2013 which does Arcade-style games & all ... [Read More]

Missed calls could soon be a thing of the past. Nokia has filed a patent for magnetic tattoos that vibrate in tune with your phone. The vibrations can be calibrated to distinguish between things like text messages, voice mail, and low battery. "The magnetic field, when detected by the apparatus, will cause a different ... [Read More]

In Hack/Slash #14, the monsters get taught a lesson but it's not by monster hunter Cassie Hack. They have to attend a mandatory seminar about sexual harassment in the workplace in the ongoing backup story Monstro City. Most of the monsters are reluctant to participate, mainly, because they have no interest in biologically ... [Read More]