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The Periodic Table of Fictional Minerals

The Periodic Table of Fictional Minerals from Buy Metal Online

Wait, Architecture Was Once A Competition in the OLYMPICS?!?

First modern Olympic stadium for the 1896 Games in Athens by VangelisB (CC BY-ND 2.0)

Over the course of the first 40 years of the modern Olympic Games, at least 150 medals were awarded to participants in the categories/competitions of sculptures, painting, literature, music, and (yes) architecture. After he resurrected the modern games after the demise of the original Olympic games and…

Yeah, Sephiroth is the new DLC for “Super Smash Bros. Ultimate,” but what we REALLY want is…

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Watch “You Cannot Kill David Arquette”!

“Wrestling’s. Not. FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!” – David Arquette, Ready to Rumble (2000)

Jumping off from that quote below the trailer video, does anyone remember that while David Arquette was promoting his 2000 movie “Ready to Rumble,” he won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship in a storyline stunt both he and fans of…

Praise KFC & Watch the Trailer to “A Recipe for Seduction”, premiering December 13th on Lifetime

Who betta than AC Slater himself to portray the legendary chef, Colonel Harland Sanders, in a Lifetime holiday movie? I’m almost completely certain that that’s a question I never thought I would ever have to ask…

So hear’s the gist, coming straight from b Lifetime’s YouTube channel:

As the holidays draw near, a young…

Bart Simpson - Do The Bartman (Official Video HQ) from Wolfgang Dey on Vimeo.

See the "JAZZMAN" too !! :vimeo.com/309333753 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Do the Bartman" "Do the Bartman" is a rap song from the 1990 Simpsons album The Simpsons Sing the Blues. It was performed by The Simpsons cast member Nancy Cartwright (the voice of Bart Simpson), with backing vocals from Michael Jackson, alongside additional vocals from Dan Castellaneta. It was produced and written by American recording artist Bryan Loren, and released as a single on November 20, 1990.

Swing Time Lip-Dub from Bytejacker on Vimeo.

Bytejacker's Swing Time Lip-Dub from Spider-Man Vs. The Kingpin created from video comment received from Bytejacker fans: Laurence, Headphonic, Tom Pease, Sanskrit and Joe Larson.

You’re Not Seeing Things; Microsoft Brings 1st Office App to Linux

LET THE INVASION BEGIN!! Yesterday, Microsoft Teams was released in a public preview phase to the Linux operating system via native Linux packages in two formats: .deb and .rpm. The app doesn’t differ in the looks department compared to it Windows and macOS brethren, and the goal of this release to for Microsoft to further push Teams as a bridge for the implementation of other Office apps (i.e.…

Microsoft’s Seeing AI App adds Five More Languages to Assist the Blind

While the Microsoft Seeing AI has proven to be successful for assisting the blind by describing objects and text, the only issue has been that it’s only been available in English, so you’re crap-outta-luck if that’s not your first language. Thankfully,  Microsoft recently updated the free (and currently) iOS-only appwith five additional languages that it can support: Dutch, French, German,…

Ex-WWE Star TJP to Compete in New Japan’s Super J-Cup Tournament

Now that former WWE stars Jox Moxley (f.k.a. Dean Ambrose) and KENTA (f.k.a. Hideo Itami) are competing in New Japan G1 Classic Tournament, another former WWE star seems to also have been stung by NJPW tourney fever. TJP (f.k.a. TJ Perkins; man, there’s a ton of “f.k.a.” so far) will take part in this year’s New Japan Pro Wrestling Super J-Cup tournament.

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Women in Ministry from NC Conference of The UMC on Vimeo.

We invited male pastors to read real comments made to female pastors in the NC Conference of The United Methodist Church.

Dang Arcade 1UP! Back At It Again with the new Arcade Cabinets!

The crew over at Arcade1UP have been releasing replica arcade cabinets for retail for the past year-or-so with licenses from the makers of Pac-Man, Defender, and Street Fighter, to name a few. The arcade cabinets are less-expensive — starting at $199 — and smaller in scale compared to their original releases — allowing for…

Behold, the First Photo and Video of an ACTUAL Black Hole…

Ladies, Gentlemen, and everyone in-between; we have witnessed a major milestone in astronomy. After many, many years of depending on computer-generated images based on the what the theory of general relativity has predicted for decades, we finally have an actual image of a black hole in space. I know, I know; IT’S FINALLY…

How Do You Celebrate the Louvre Pyramid’s 30th Birthday? OPTICAL ILLUSIONS!!!!

In celebration of the 30th anniversary of IM Pei’s Louvre Pyramid in Paris, France, artist JRcreated a large-scale collaborative art piece, titled ‘The Secret of the Louvre”, that takes up the entirety of the Napoleon Court. The reason for the Pyramid’s creation was to ease down the congestion from museum’s thousands of daily visitors. The artwork was made with the assistance of 400 volunteers,…

Jerry Lawler & Rikishi Dance, then Beat-up Scott Steiner & Buff Bagwell at Grizzlies Game

During a Memphis Grizzlies game this past Saturday, where they fell 112-99 to the Minnesota Timberwolves, WWE Hall of Famers Jerry “The King” Lawler and Rikishi Fatu would join the Grizz Girls in the third quarter to perform the latter’s dance routine made famous with Too Cool trio in WWE. This was moment that was wonderful and…