Don't feel too bad if you're playing CitizenSugar's Presidential FaceOff Game and find yourself scratching your head at who was a better president, considering all of our early American History may be a little fuzzy.
So I come to you with this rockin' piece of trivia, courtesy of Neatorama: Rutherford B. Hayes, aside from being the owner of a smokin' hot Blue Steel, was the first geek in the White House!
Yup, Hayes brought the first telephone and typewriter into the White House, and considering I can't live without my iPhone or MacBook Pro, I would say I highly appreciate a forward-thinking man. Think Barack will ever switch from a BlackBerry to an iPhone?
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Fanboys Battle "Darth Weinstein" Over Fanboys So, there's this movie Fanboys, starring a brunette Kristen Bell and a dorky Seth Rogen, in which "a group of young, passionate Star Wars fans . . . drive cross-country to raid George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch, and watch Star Wars: Episode 1— The Phantom Menace."
Say you met your match at an Apple store, yes, it's possible to meet men there — would you consider tying the knot in one? Or maybe having your reception there? Well the Apple store dating blog explains that a woman named Sandy recently called the Apple store and inquired about having her wedding reception there in June. You see, Sandy met her fiancé at an Apple store, and couldn't think of a better place to celebrate on her wedding day. To listen to the entire phone conversation between Sandy and the Apple store manager, check out the video below!
For those of you waiting oh so impatiently for the Wii edition of Mario Kart, you'll have to hold your breath for only another month. Mario Kart Wii will be hitting shelves on April 27 here in the states, but lucky Japanese Wii fans can get their hands on it a whole two weeks and some odd days earlier. I hope we don't have a repeat of the delayed Super Smash Bros. Brawl release where it gets pushed back at the very last minute! I just don't know if my little heart could stand it.
Thankfully, Mario Kart Wii is coming stocked with the Wii Wheel (cause who would want to drive with the Wiimote? Not me!), although there's already sightings of some pretty impressive third-party steering wheels out there. Plus, this time we can race motorcycles and compete online with up to 12 players worldwide. Can't wait for some sweet Mario Kart action? Check out the trailer below when you read more
Remember when you used to wait for the dentist as a kid and ate up as much Highlights as humanly possible before your appointment? You were all, I do understand where Goofus went wrong and Gallant was right. And then you got to the two pictures and had to find what was wrong with the second picture? Photoshop Disasters is kind of like that. Except it's just one picture, and you get to scan the pics and figure out were the photoshopper went wrong.
Sometimes it's putting a three-handed woman on a book cover, sometimes there are no finger on the trigger on a movie poster, and my personal fave, photoshops so hilariously bad that you resent the graphic designer for thinking you're so dumb you wouldn't have caught it.
Photoshop Disasters won't search the web for your first attempts at the cloning tool (been there), they seek out commercial stuff in the mainstream, where someone was actually hired to make Heidi Klum look like an alien.
Beaded curtains and Star Trek kinda go together, don't you think? Artist Deborah Sperber created this colorful curtain with thousands of tiny beads to make up the Captain Kirk 3D image, which totally reminds me of a hologram. I can't even imagine how much one of these intricate portraits would cost! To see some more Star Trek curtains, head on over to Gizmodo, or if you are in New York, you can check them out at the PULSE NY Art Fair (Booth E13) from March 27 to 30.