Americans were just Facebookin’ their asses off last week, finally putting the social media giant over the Google mark for most viewed site in the country, according to a new report from Hitwise: It might be time to call your stockbroker.
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Posted inPoll
You Pick the Star Trek: TNG Column!
As regular readers of the Mercury know, we’ve been trying since 2000 to find a great new columnist to share the space currently held by Ann Romano’s One Day at a Time. And while these “New Columns!” may have excellent pedigrees—such as “One Hulk’s Opinion,” “Frank Cassano’s Imbecile Parade,” “I Slipped the Banana to Hannah […]
Posted inFashion
wtfjeans… WTF Indeed
Dorkiest thing ever: wtfjeans (tag line: “wear them ftw”) are made special to hold your iPhone or iPod and even have a “hidden memory stick pocket.” Even if the concept is kind of ridiculous (they probably will no longer be compatible with the latest Apple products after a year, tops), they don’t look bad, and […]
Posted inFood and Drink
This Week’s Mercury Food Section: Pi Day Pie
This week’s Last Supper is concerned with mathematics (minimally) and pie (maximally). As March 14th approaches (3.14), hungry nerds around the globe are tucking in napkins and honing straightedge and compass skills in anticipation of eating pie while they traipse along the nonrepeating digits that are the wonderland of the mathematical constant Pi [3.14159265]. So […]
Posted inTheater & Performance
Trek in the Park Announces Auditions for “Space Seed”!
Photo by Aaron Duran, geekinthecity.com. Atomic Arts’ Trek in the Park was one of the highlights of last summer (you can read what I thought of it here). This summer, they’ll be back with the classic episode “Space Seed”—and they just announced the roles that wannabe Trek actors can audition for. I’ve said it before […]
Posted inVideo Games
Tron: Legacy Just Gave Me a Boner
As you watched Jeff Bridges’ whooping Oscar speech, I’m sure you were wondering what he could possibly do to top that career high. Wonder no more! The latest trailer for Tron: Legacy has Oscar written all over it. Oscar, in case you didn’t know, is written in neon frisbee discs and catsuits. Check this shit […]
Posted inReligion
Evangelical Trekkies? WHAT A COUNTRY!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you Everything is Terrible (I think) for digging up this amazingly bad/hilarious/offensive evangelical tribute to Star Trek in which the Enterprise crew combat those Satan-lovin’ Klingons with a little bit of our lord and savior J.C. (But c’mon, Christians… “Captain RE-tard?” Really??)
Posted inAstronomy
New Symphony of Science Makes Me Sad, Yet Again, That I Am Not a Scientist
As I’ve noted before, I really like the Symphony of Science videos. I’m not sure why: They inevitably make me want to be a scientist, but that makes me sad, because I am terrible at science and math and pretty much anything else that requires book learnin’. I will never be a scientist. Unless maybe […]
Posted inEvents
Today April 18, Ground Kontrol, Pinbrawl 2010!
Ground Kontrol Update (because I’m an idiot): Everything I said about Pinbrawl 2010 below still applies — in particular the words from the press release — only instead of occuring today, Pinbrawl 2010 goes down on April 18. Consider me blushing and kicking myself while branding the contents of a 2010 day calendar into my […]
Posted inGeek
Walking with Dinosaurs: The Mercury Review
Last night, the Mercury‘s Nerd Posse™ attended Walking with Dinosaurs: THE ARENA SPECTACULAR at the Rose Garden. Hit the jump for our insightful and incisive critique. (If for some reason the following commentary fails to satisfy your curiosity about the show, feel free to leave questions in the comments.) You can purchase your very own […]
Posted inFashion
Time Eater of the Day
I could spend a frightening amount of time concocting amusingly horrible virtual outfits on the latest online crack cocaine for fashion dorks that was unleashed today. Read more about it over on MOD if you’re prepared to accomplish nothing else for the next hour, at minimum. Worst. Virtual. Outfit. Ever.
Posted inTV
Trekkie Recites All 79 Star Trek Episode Titles in 98.9 Seconds, Women Everywhere Swoon
Via TrekMovie: A music industry entrepreneur, [Mack] Elder tells TrekMovie that he is a life-long Trek fan and when he became familiar of the Universal Record Database and their events in New York, his first thought was to do something with Star Trek. Oh and before you nitpick that he wore a Star Trek 2009 […]