Dark Horse is reporting Domo-kun creator creator Tsuneo Goda will make a rare appearance later this month at a Northridge, California Borders. This Sci-Guy can’t help but wonder how long Goda will be in the US before he gets to try a Fuji Frost Slurpee. 7-Eleven is actually a Japanese owned company, and you can [...]

Industry news Broadcast and Cable are reporting that in 2010 the popular streaming TV video site Hulu would end free viewing and switch to a pay model. “It’s time to start getting paid for broadcast content online,” News Corp. Deputy Chairman Chase Carey said. The argument is, well, they need to make money, and it’s hard [...]

Here are just two of the new hoodies released by Ecko this week, just in time for Halloween. There are also Batman, The Joker, and KISS versions. Click here to see them all. The Jason one is kind of cool, but I am feeling a little too old and not as Hot Topic-y as I [...]

You can also see the original video “A Glorious Dawn” at the Symphony of Science homepage. Auto-tune Stephen Hawking?

Supposedly from the season 5 DVD, from our pals at DarkUFO

A group of students from Carnegie Mellon have created a proof of concept for a Dungeons and Dragons game being played on Microsoft’s touch sensitive table/computer, Surface. With Surface running about $10K, it is unlikely that most D&D fans would run out and buy one just for this.  But it’s still a pretty cool concept.

Two months ago I picked up a new book dedicated to the Star Wars Universe.  A universe that, over the last 32 years, has taken up an inordinate amount of my free time.  Free time spent learning trivial facts about planets that do not really exist, trade routes that are  mentioned once in a  movie and then [...]