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PlanetEye Officially Launches!

GeekSugar — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:30:26 PDT

PlanetEye, the one-stop destination site for all your travel planning needs, has officially launched with so many fabulous features! Whether you're organizing a trip from start to finish, or feel like getting to know a destination better, PlanetEye will help you do just that. With more than 70,000 geotagged photographs in its database so far, PlanetEye not only offers useful info about cities, landmarks, and hotels, but it also offers a visual experience like no other.

Once you type in a destination of your choice, you can check out city guides and mouse over media bubbles on the map, which will display landmarks on interactive maps. And if you check out the top preview panel on the map, you'll notice many more photos from that area as well, so you can see exactly what that location has to offer.

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PlanetEye offers a handy tool called "Travel Packs" which allow you to collect interesting photographs, attractions, hotels and restaurants in one convenient spot for you to share with friends and family or to use later. You can check out all your Travel Pack info on personalized maps and you can even book flight and hotel and car rentals right from your Travel Pack through Travelocity, make dinner reservations through OpenTable, purchase tickets via StubHub and even book a spa appointment with WaySpa!

PlanetEye also includes local experts in various places to give you the best advice about what to see and do when visiting a certain location. So once you sign up (don't worry, it's totally free) and upload your own pics, leave feedback and reviews, make hotel and restaurant reservations, and best of all, create a customized travel pack!

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Eco-fy Your Wedding!

GeekSugar — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:17:14 PDT

In honor of Earth Day (and wedding season here on PopSugar Network) we're serving up some easy and simple ways to make your wedding just a bit more earth friendly from a geek's perspective. These days, getting down with protecting Mother Earth can be simple.

From your wedding shower, to the big event and to all the details in between, little changes can certainly help our planet and our pocketbooks! Making your wedding eco friendly has never been more simple (and surprisingly) cost effective. Besides, wouldn't you rather spend all that extra cash on the honeymoon, or better yet? That flat screen HDTV you've been eyeing? Go, Earth!

Invites - We've already talked about how a wedding website can save you time, money, and the planet, and since all of your ceremony and reception information is in one place, no one will be losing the details on your big day. Allowing your guests to RSVP directly on the site at any time can reduce or negate the need for paper invites. However, if you are a traditionalist and want to send out your dream monogrammed paper invitations, make sure your paper is 100 percent recycled.

For a few more tips, just keep reading.

The Sloth Gets an Adorable Run For Its Money

Sara Yoo — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:15:00 PDT

Sloth babies are the celebrities of the animal kingdom this year, appearing on Animal Planet's Too Cute and in Kristen Bell's birthday fantasies. But we'd like to nominate a new junior cutie: the white-handed gibbon! These little primates hail from Southeast Asia, munching on fruit, leaves, insects, and flowers in the wild. Sweater-clad Knuppy, a 3-month-old gibbon born at the Bremen Zoo, can't get enough of his bottle. And with eyes like his, how can a zookeeper with a heart resist?

A Few of NASA's Top Planetary Picks For Extraterrestrial Life

Kristy Korcz — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:49:31 PDT

NASA has discovered yet another planet in our solar system that contains water. Saturns brightest moon, Enceladus, has been found to contain stress fractures on its icy surface that expand and contract as it circles Saturn. Such a flexible surface can only mean one thing - a planet covered in water. What's more, the water below the frozen surface could be hot, and with hot water comes biological growth.

Not surprisingly, Enceladus isn't the only planet that NASA has its eyes on for extraterrestrial life in and out of our solar system. Check out three more planets that could contain life, or have all the fixings for alien life in the future.

Source: NASA

Daily Tech: Tintin and Snowy, IRL

GeekSugar — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:52:28 PDT

The sweetest Tintin cosplay ever - GeekTyrant
A not-so-smart thief stole Microsoft cofounder's identity - Newser
Amazon may launch three new tablets this year - Geekosystem
The coolest lasers on planet Earth - Cracked
Eye-tracking machines may make the best interrogators - Geek.com
We'll take a concrete pipe hotel over a capsule room any day - Dvice
What Pinterest would look like without copyrighted content - BuzzFeed
The $1 million plasma TV, a Spring must have! - Tecca

Celeb Style: Beyoncé Pulls Off Printed Pants Like a Pro (You Can Too!)

Hannah Weil — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:13:55 PDT

With a handful of insanely-styled postbaby appearances, Beyoncé may just have solidified her place as one of the planet's most fashionable moms. This time she gives us a perfect take on Spring's printed-pants trend in a pair of Stella McCartney's tropical trousers from Resort 2012. The pattern's bold, but Beyoncé styles them with a silky black button-down that both tempers the print and lends an easiness to the whole look. We love that she accessorizes with a bright pair of pumps and a hot pink Bottega Veneta belt to complement the pant's brilliant hues, then finishes with a pair of cool-girl cat-eye shades. Tempted to try out your own printed pants? Shop our editors' picks to style up the same pair à la Beyoncé, or peruse our other options for a pair with a similar tropical print.

Meet the World's (New) Hottest Pepper

Susannah Chen — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:49:27 PST

If Valentine's Day wasn't hot enough for you, then consider a new way to get fired up, with what's been identified as the world's hottest pepper.

Researchers at the New Mexico State University Chile Pepper Institute has identified the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion as the most potent pepper in the world, surpassing even the bhut jolokia in searing heat.

The institute's researchers were prompted to establish a benchmark for heat levels, after hot sauce makers and other spicy pepper industry insiders claimed there wasn't enough scientific proof of which chiles were actually hottest. The record-holding bhut jolokia, which was certified as the planet's hottest pepper in 2007, clocks in at one million Scoville units, while some individual Trinidad Moruga Scorpion plants reached a whopping two million.

No doubt some new hot sauces will follow, but proceed with caution: a single seed from this pepper will cause puffy, watering eyes, a runny nose, and a burning sensation that can last for hours. Is this something you'd ever dare to try?

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Website of the Day: Google Sky

GeekSugar — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:43:28 PDT

If you've got your eyes to the sky after today's total lunar eclipse, you can keep the celestial magic flowing with Google Sky.

This website allows you to get a closer look at our neighboring stars, planets, and constellations with different layers, and even gives you details on distant galaxies found through the lens of NASA telescopes and informative podcasts about our own galaxy.

Do you have an interesting website you want to share? Join the Website of the Day group and blog it for a chance to be featured on GeekSugar.

Gerard Butler Says Shooting Machine Gun Preacher Made Him Feel Like He Had Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Shannon Vestal — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:13:32 PDT

Gerard Butler stars in this week's new release Machine Gun Preacher as Sam Childers, a man who left a life of crime and drug addiction to devote himself to his children who'd been affected by the violent attacks of the Lord's Resistance Army in the Sudan. Butler, who also serves as executive producer, and his costar Michelle Monaghan, who plays Sam's wife Lynn, chatted with us during a recent press day in San Francisco. They talked about what it was like portraying real people, how Butler prepared for the role, and the difficulties he endured while filming some of the more disturbing scenes in Africa.

Did you know about Sam's story, and what did you think of the title when you heard it?
Gerard Butler: It was my agent who'd heard about it for a long time, and he loved it, was very passionate about it for a long time. He pitched the story to me, so I immediately connected Machine Gun Preacher with a guy who fought for children in the Sudan. I like the [title] Machine Gun Preacher, I think it's very catchy, but I think that it allows the movie to reveal the far deeper, interesting, more complex story. And yet to let people know that it's a crazy ass movie at the same time. He's a crazy ass guy, a hell of a powerful adventurer as well. I didn't know about it before, and [then] I wanted everyone to know about it.

Michelle Monaghan: I mean obviously, I got the script and saw Machine Gun Preacher, and I was intrigued - come on! I was completely inspired when I'd read it. This is definitely a project I wanted to be a part of, and certainly knowing that Gerry was on board to tell his story, as was Marc Forster, only cemented the idea of being a part of it even more.

To find out what else Butler and Monaghan had to say, like how hard it was shooting the violent scenes, just keep reading.

Website of the Day: NASA Eyes on the Solar System

Kristy Korcz — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:21:22 PDT

Commercial space flight may actually happen in our lifetime, but why wait for a tour of the solar system when you can get a better look now with NASA's new Eyes on the Solar System app for your Mac or PC. All that's required to see the Milky Way up close and personal (and I do mean up close - you can hop on an asteroid, see NASA's Juno spacecraft in real time, and check out other planets, thanks to loads of NASA data) is download the Unity 3D plug-in and you're ready to rock and roll, space style.

If you want to get a precursor to what to expect from Eyes on the Solar System, check out this walk through of the Juno mission to Jupiter. It's pretty cool to see things happening in real time, but you can control space in this app - speed things up to see what's expected in 2015 or take a flyby of Mars to see the landscapes. If you can't find me, I'll be swimming through Saturn's rings!

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