Oyster announced today that they have secured $3 million in funding for a new startup that will provide unlimited access to a library of books for a flat monthly price. The company is developing an application geared specifically for mobile use.
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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.
Amazon opens online Halloween Store featuring everything under the sun that is Halloween related
Andrew Moore photography shows eerie decay of Detroit city
It looks like something out of The Walking Dead. Detroit, a U.S. city that is decaying before our eyes, looks like its habitants simply vanished into thin air leaving behind a magnificent city that now resembles a war zone. No longer the Motor City of boom-time industry, the city of Detroit has fallen into an…
Funny Google Easter Eggs
Google has a great sense of humor and allows their developers to occasionally put Easter eggs in the search results (in addition to just about every other product they own). Here are a few of the funniest Google Easter eggs. Note: some of these require you run Chrome browser and some expire or only working…
Apple honors Steve Jobs on one-year anniversary of his death, with home page video and letter from Tim Cook
Thirteen Abandoned Mental Asylums
Twelve Abandoned Mental Asylums
Mechanical Steampunk hand contraption thingy
Cool: Remote control Pac-Man racers – Blinky and Ghosts can now chase each other around your living room
Hide your cherries and get out of the way, Pac-Man remote controlled racers have arrived. These iconic Pac-Man racers can move in all four directions and include authentic 8-bit Pac-Man sound effects (sound activated by a button on the side of the remote). The racers are weighted so they won’t topple over.











