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IMDB’s Top 250… Mapped
Have you ever wanted to see if any big movies were produced close to your home? I know I certainly have, and if it wasn’t for this amazing little tool I would never have known that part of Guy Ritchie’s 2000 smash hit Snatch was in fact filmed 5 minutes down the road from the Nerdscoop offices. [...]
Read More...Love, Han Solo Style
Since we know that you, like us, really love to see a good bit of Star Wars customization, we know that you are going to love the assortment of items that we have found for you today! These make the perfect gift for that Star Wars fan in your life. First off is the matching [...]
Read More...Awesome Thing: Trigger Rally
Say goodbye to meeting those deadlines, because a brand new issue of the Awesome Thing series is finally here! This time around we bring you the surprisingly impressive browser game Trigger Rally, which runs entirely independent of any third-party plugins such as Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight. The original game is an open-source ...
Read More...Mortal Kombat Style
If you love Korean pop music and tongue-in-cheek violent video games as much as I do then you’ll absolutely love my latest YouTube find. We’ve all seen the hundreds thousands of Gangnam Style parodies over the last six months, but this one truly stands out as something special. I give you the endlessly entertaining Mortal [...]
Read More...What If… Your Computer Could Fix Itself?
It’s 11pm on the final night of revision before that final exam, and you’re burning the midnight oil putting in some serious cramming time. Now perhaps you’re like me, and no matter how pushed for time you are, there is always just enough to squeeze in a quick visit to Facebook for a healthy serving [...]
Read More...Awesome Thing: Impasse
Welcome to the very latest instalment of the incredibly exhilarating series of entertaining pieces of fun known as Awesome Thing. Today we bring you something just a little bit different, something ever so irritating; yet, something which will captivate your attention for hours on end, if you allow it to. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present [...
Read More...Discover the 3D Internet with Plus Three
There have certainly been a number of internet visualisation concepts over the years, some better than others, but more often than not serving as novelty pieces. This isn’t the case for Trinary Software’s Plus Three software however, which will run on top of their upcoming Open T-Net application. The idea is for Open T-Net to ...
Read More...The Nerdiest Movies of All Time
It takes a big man to play an action hero, and an even bigger one to play a nerd. That’s because audiences do not exactly admire the nerd, but rather love him for his shortcomings and his triumphs against the odds. Not all the movies on this list have nerdy protagonists, but they do have [...]
Read More...Laptop Hard Drives Are Unreliable
Statistically speaking hard drives are the number one most common piece of hardware to experience a fault in your typical laptop computer. A hard disk drive, often referred to as just hard drive, is a digital data storage device comprising of rotating rigid platters on a motor-driven spindle. Intricate magnetic technology is used to read...
Read More...The Aylesford Skull by steampunk legend James P. Blaylock
‘The Aylesford Skull’, written by James P. Blaylock, certainly comes highly recommended. Various words of praise from other authors in similar fields as well as the description of the author as a “steampunk legend” adorn the cover, and you could be forgiven for thinking that these words might be a bit overblown when you first [......
Read More...Bake Brownies Like A Boss
You like brownies, right? Of course you do, everybody likes brownies! We’ve all had the pleasure of baking a batch of these chocolaty pieces of heaven, but there has always been one aspect of the process which takes the excitement out of it all… Time. Who really has 20-30 minutes for cooking time in the [...]
Read More...Norwich Man Repairs Tatooine
A man from Norwich by the name of Mark Cox has fulfilled his dream by travelling to the Star Wars planet of Tatooine to carry out some necessary repairs there to the Lars homestead, former residence of the one and only Luke Skywalker. Of course, as all die hard Star Wars fans know, you do not have [...]
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