Richard Garriott, creator of such games as Ultima and more regrettably Tabula Rasa, is launching a futile mission in October to bring 40 samples of DNA with him to the International Space Station.
Why is this mission futile? Read on!

USC’s Gamepipe brings us Lockdown, which they describe as “a serious game for incident response to school shootings.” Obviously, this game, or simulator, or training application, however you want to bill it, isn’t about graphics, but I can’t stop thinking of Playmobil as I look at the video.
It’s supposed to be used to teach SWAT […]

In order to learn the public about science we’re kicking off the Fun Vampires Summer Science Kamp with this chemistry lesson. Once you’ve mastered this material, you should keep going for math and biology.

If I had a lot of money to kill I would probably turn into Donna Hutchings and buy 2342398 rad X-Files collectibles. Apparently this picture shows 50% of her collection.
Even crazier nerd collections after the jump.

This tattoo is so bad and so NSFW that I can’t show it above the jump.
Alex wrote to me, and said “the bet was high card draw best 2 out of 3 winner got to pick, but had to pay for the losers tattoo.” Click to find out what the winner picked for him, but […]

Whoa, i was trying to show a coworker Japan’s favorite Holy Poop Shinto cellphone strap charm when i came across this wonderful R2-D2 soy sauce dispenser. this is definitely a must have! They even have other astromech droid styles available along with star wars shampoo dispensers, doo-rags, key covers and more. God Praise Nippon! more […]