New York Times Best Selling author Tom Sniegoski, who has written some great works such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Batman, Punisher, Bone, Star Trek, The Fallen, etc. is returning to the Vampirella series in a new series entitled Vampirella Strikes!
Year: 2012
Huge Windows 8 cumulative update rolls out prior to SP1 – promises performance improvements
Microsoft is rolling out a cumulative update today ahead of an official service pack for Windows 8. The update includes power and performance improvements as well as some driver fixes and updates to some core Windows 8 applications. It is unusual for Microsoft to roll out cumulative patches (other than service packs) but with Windows…
Curiosity Rover finds mysterious metallic object while scooping its first soil samples [UPDATE]
Curiosity Rover scooped its first soil samples yesterday and while scooping, took a picture of something that NASA cannot identify. It’s a small, silver metallic looking chip or flake of some kind. It could be something left over from the MSL descent mechanisms or some previously unknown soil anomaly.
Girl has stomach removed after drinking cocktail with liquid nitrogen in it
Liquid nitrogen boils at -196C, a characteristic that makes it pretty cool for oh, flash freezing alcoholic beverages and making cocktails give off a cloud of smoky vapor. That’s what Oscar’s Wine Bar in the United Kingdom puts in their drinks to give them that “cool” look. Until yesterday when Gaby Scanion, a teenager who…
More Geek Jokes
Keep ‘em coming. Here’s more Geek jokes. PayPal: Your funds have been frozen for 668974 days 1-800-404 : The subscriber you are trying to call does not exist 1-800-403 : Access to that subscriber was denied Error message: "Out of paper on drive D:" If I wanted a warm fuzzy feeling, I’d antialias my graphics!…
YouPorn serves a staggering 100GB of data – per second! This is how they do it.
Porn sites are often technology leaders. They have to be. It is believed that porn is the most widely viewed content on the Internet. Just how much traffic do they serve? YouPorn, who serves free pornographic videos and is the second largest porn site on the Internet, hosts over 100TB of porn. At peak times,…
SpaceX’s first operational mission goes off (almost) without a hitch – should dock with ISS on Wednesday
SpaceX’s first operational flight to the International Space Station went off without a hitch. Around 8:50 PM EST, SpaceX announced via Twitter, “Falcon 9 rocket booster has delivered Dragon to its target orbit!”, making history as the first commercial flight to ISS after NASA’s Space Shuttle program was shut down.
Mass Murder in World of Warcraft game – hackers take down entire cities [VIDEO]
Flying synchronized RC helicopters are quick and agile enough to throw a ball and then catch in a net
Swiss researchers demonstrated three robotic quadrocopters, flying in formation and tethered to a net, playing catch with a ball. The helicopters maneuver to catch balls that are tossed to them and catch them in the net. Once they catch the ball, they launch it back by flying outward and stretching the net tight.
The stages of motion picture development and the odd movie lingo that goes with it
On Geek Slop, you often hear us mention movies being “in development” or “pre-production” stages, but what do these movie terms really mean? Filmmaking or film production consists of four steps that define the process of making a movie – development, pre-production, production, and post-production. Each of these stages is discussed in detail below.








