Misc. Nerdiness
If Marvel characters were in a Ren and Stimpy cartoon, it might look a lot like this highly amusing short entitled Disassambled by Junaid Chundriga (We especially like the bits with the Silver Surfer and Nick Fury). I guess heroes don’t always win the day.
Check out the video after the break.
After starting life as a Kickstarter campaign, these Mathematician’s Dice have landed on ThinkGeek, where they are being offered as exciting substitutes for conventional dice. Instead of merely displaying the numbers 1-6, the math dice are emblazoned with the the additive identity, the multiplicative identity, the golden ratio, Euler’s number e, the imaginary number i, and the circular constant pi.
If these look like hieroglyphics to you, prepare for your board game / gambling jaunts to become infinitely more confusing and time consuming.
Product Page: ($20)
Voice actor J.K. Simmons has recorded a series of new Cave Johnson lines for the Portal 2 level-maker DLC, which players will hear randomly as they begin levels. YouTuber “ac1th” thoughtfully combined this audio into a 25 minute video that will serve as a soothing fix for gaming addicts.
Check it out after the break.
Etsy seller “Movie Guns Inc.” is offering this custom 1:1 scale replica of the Colonial Marines’ Smartgun from Aliens which consists of over 60 individual parts made from a mix of aluminum, resin and steel. The prop offers features such as grips reinforced with steel rods, a removable ammo drum, a removable top cover and a functional rear trigger handle.
Check out some additional pics after the break.
Curtis Glover gave water conservation a nerdy twist by creating a rain barrel that looks like R2-D2. Wisely, Curtis thought the droid design would be popular and help raise additional money for The Water Quality Forum’s annual contest/auction for custom designed rain barrels.
This particular barrel can be viewed at Knoxville’s Bearden Beer Market through May 24th. Check out an additional pic after the break.
As you know, Biff Tannen was Marty McFly’s nemesis in The Back to The Future trilogy. It didn’t matter if he was young Biff or old Biff, he was a jerk. But the guy that played him, Tom Wilson, is damn funny and he has the world’s most verbose business card as proof. Rather than answer the same questions about the movie over and over, he wrote up all the things he’s constantly asked and put them on his business card. And he even wrote up a song to go with it.
Check out the whole business card and the video after the jump…
Something tells me that the AT-AT Walker walker will be commonplace for an elderly Star Wars generation. Mine’s going to have flames on the sides.
(Keith Greenstein via G4)
The highly-anticipated Tron: Uprising animated mini-series is set to begin its 10-episode run on Disney XD starting on June 7th. However, the entire first episode entitled Beck’s Beginning has been released online and you can watch it right here after the break (may not be viewable outside of the US).
