Sacha Baron Cohen’s long-awaited followup to 2006’s BORAT is coming close to release, and we’ve finally got a trailer for the much anticipated project. BRUNO, based on another character from Cohen’s ‘Da Ali G Show’ library of personas, has the actor taking on the identity of his fictitious homosexual fashionista as he travels cross-country, putting [...]

Before I say anything, I want to make it clear that I can’t stand American Idol. As such, I did not watch last night’s premiere episode in which the show’s first blind contestant got a ticket to Hollywood, following which Ryan Seacrest raised his hand for a congratulatory high five. Would that be a Seacrest-ism?

An artist named Jason Freeny created the above image of the anatomy of a Lego character. He has also done anatomical cross-sections of other awkward things such as a Gummi bear and balloon animal.

This stuff is total nerd pr0n for the D&D community. Not only does this make stunning use of new technology, but it evolves the whole “pen and paper” gameplay quality of standard roleplaying games and creates a complete digital facsimile of the entire mechanic, from rolling the dice to marking stats on a character sheet. [...]

A DCU MMO? Awesome! I’m a total fanboy so the idea of becoming immersed into an actual comic book universe is very appealing to me. I never got into City of Heroes, but that was probably because it was entirely unique. DCU Online actually features well known DC heroes and villains, so it’s much more nostalgic for me, and thus more appealing.

In order to coincide with the feature film release of the Watchmen adaptation, Deadline Games, with publisher Warner Bros. Interactive, is developing Watchmen: The End is Nigh for PS3, Xbox 360, and Windows. The game will take place in the ’70’s and will be a prequel to the graphic novel

Google’s Android mobile platform has been in use in commercial phones since 2008, and has fast become a popular system for mobile web users and app developers. It also seems, dare I say, to have grown into the role of the long-fabled iPhone Killer. With the new Droid from Verizon and the latest Nexus One [...]

I remember the first scanner I ever had. It was a standalone UMAX Astra flatbed, and it was pretty bulky. Today, I have a combination printer/scanner/copier so I don’t have the peripheral clutter that I used to. One of the benefits of convergent technology is that devices become smaller yet more advanced. Modern scanners are [...]

There’s no denying it, math makes the world go round. Even if it was your worst subject in school, there’s no avoiding math in everyday life. Math is even seen inherently in time, so why not have a wall clock to exemplify that correlation? The Math Clock for Geeks is a wonderfully geeky timepiece that [...]

Sita Sings the Blues is an animation by Nina Paley which will easily charm you. While you may think Ramayana isn’t one you want to watch an animated version of for about 80 minutes (afterall it IS quite sad, right?) Paley’s efforts have created an animated story telling full of visual and aural pleasure that [...]

“We show for the first time that the same genes turned on in normal human embryos are the same genes turned on in human clones,” said Robert Lanza, scientific director of Advanced Cell Technologies and co-author of a study published Monday in Cloning and Stem Cells.
So the genes activated during the cloning process are the [...]

I’ll preface this by stating that Google Earth has been one of my favorite apps ever since it debuted in 2006. I don’t use it all that often, considering I don’t necessarily need to be browsing a 3D representation of the planet all that frequently, but I love it for its innovation and just plain [...]

Google’s Android mobile platform has been in use in commercial phones since 2008, and has fast become a popular system for mobile web users and app developers. It also seems, dare I say, to have grown into the role of the long-fabled iPhone Killer. With the new Droid from Verizon and the latest Nexus One [...]

This stuff is total nerd pr0n for the D&D community. Not only does this make stunning use of new technology, but it evolves the whole “pen and paper” gameplay quality of standard roleplaying games and creates a complete digital facsimile of the entire mechanic, from rolling the dice to marking stats on a character sheet. [...]

In the sub-zero wasteland of the planet Hoth, only the strong survive… and of course those lucky Jedi protected by the thick skin of a Tauntaun.
Relive the greatest movie in Star Wars history by pretend-slaughtering your own Tauntaun and crawling inside of its steaming remains! This high-quality sleeping bag has been constructed to look just [...]

It should be no secret to our regular fanbase (hahaha!) that we’ve been on a break from posting here. That is explained by our lack of motivation and time. Sean and I are both busy busy bodies (what with girlfriends and World of Warcraft) and we’ve ramped down on our webdev projects lately. We’re both [...]

We have once again upgraded our Wordpress content management system! The folks over at WP are constantly pumping out new versions of the platform, and we aren’t always on top of things, seeing as to how Sean and I don’t really post to the site that often. Recently I got the time and motivation to [...]

Criterion, now eternally famous for their work with the Burnout series, recently released their prized FPS dubbed by many in the industry as “gun porn”.
Black offers up a healthy dosage of action that, in my best attempts at finding an appropriate simile, is like being in the Diehard movies..
My first impressions of Black were that [...]

Batteries, as we know them, have always used a form of non-organic chemical energy, such as lead-acid and nickel-cadmium, in order to power our electronic devices. That is going to change once the scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T) unveil their new power source, a battery containing biological matter, a virus dubbed M13. [...]

Astronomers have discovered that the single most recognizable characteristic about Jupiter, it’s Great Red Spot, is slowly shrinking. Over the course of a ten year study, observers noticed that the storm, roughly equivalent to the width of three Earths side by side, shrank about a kilometer a day (that’s 0.6 miles) from 1996 to 2006, [...]

“We show for the first time that the same genes turned on in normal human embryos are the same genes turned on in human clones,” said Robert Lanza, scientific director of Advanced Cell Technologies and co-author of a study published Monday in Cloning and Stem Cells.
So the genes activated during the cloning process are the [...]

This stuff is total nerd pr0n for the D&D community. Not only does this make stunning use of new technology, but it evolves the whole “pen and paper” gameplay quality of standard roleplaying games and creates a complete digital facsimile of the entire mechanic, from rolling the dice to marking stats on a character sheet. [...]

Batteries, as we know them, have always used a form of non-organic chemical energy, such as lead-acid and nickel-cadmium, in order to power our electronic devices. That is going to change once the scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T) unveil their new power source, a battery containing biological matter, a virus dubbed M13. [...]

I would first like to preface this post with the following: * drool *
With that out of the way, the announced electric sedan from Tesla, the Model S, has been officially debuted. It made an unofficial appearance hours before it was scheduled to be shown as Digg co-founder Kevin Rose was somehow given access to [...]

Google’s Android mobile platform has been in use in commercial phones since 2008, and has fast become a popular system for mobile web users and app developers. It also seems, dare I say, to have grown into the role of the long-fabled iPhone Killer. With the new Droid from Verizon and the latest Nexus One [...]

Moby - Shot in the Back of the Head from Mute Records.
Moby popped up the other day to announce his new album, to be released this summer. Titled “Wait for Me”, the album will hit shelves on June 30th and will feature his latest single, “Shot in the Back of the Head”, the video for [...]

It’s certainly not your late night public access channel, but that’s a good thing!
Recently I found a need to broadcast my webcam shenanigans to multiple friends.  While YouTube offers a great venue for “previously recorded” materials that I can edit and post, I decided I wanted to perform live music (DJing, producing sessions, etc) and [...]

Moby - Shot in the Back of the Head from Mute Records.
Moby popped up the other day to announce his new album, to be released this summer. Titled “Wait for Me”, the album will hit shelves on June 30th and will feature his latest single, “Shot in the Back of the Head”, the video for [...]

I would first like to preface this post with the following: * drool *
With that out of the way, the announced electric sedan from Tesla, the Model S, has been officially debuted. It made an unofficial appearance hours before it was scheduled to be shown as Digg co-founder Kevin Rose was somehow given access to [...]

Microsoft laid a big one on their investors this morning by announcing that they’d be laying off up to 5,000 of their total 94,000 employees in sales, finance, research, and technology positions. 1,400 of those layoffs are taking place today, and the rest will be carried out over the next 18 months. The decision to [...]

Every year starting around late September to early October I begin to crave certain flavors that are entrenched in the feelings of the fall season.  Pumpkin, gingerbread, molasses, hearth breads, fresh pies, and butternut squash are just a sampling of the delicious flavors I make a part of my regular menu.
I am an avid Espresso [...]

Criterion, now eternally famous for their work with the Burnout series, recently released their prized FPS dubbed by many in the industry as “gun porn”.
Black offers up a healthy dosage of action that, in my best attempts at finding an appropriate simile, is like being in the Diehard movies..
My first impressions of Black were that [...]

The open source development community for Xbox has generated some awesome software. XboxMediaCenter (XBMC) is a perfect solution for home Mp3 and video streaming in the living room.
Over the course of last summer I began to research and harvest all of the information I could about Xbox Modding. Why, you ask, would I want to [...]

Around these parts, language is something of a vagary, providing us with some unique feeling of embitterment whenever we are exposed to some form of flawed verbiage. Be it a news article, blog post, or other form of editorial, the improper usage of spelling and grammar can prove to be a great annoyance around the SNN farm.

[23:20] RouletteDare: oh man and they showed a preview for this new movie House of Wax or something
[23:20] peak volume: HAHA
[23:20] peak volume: yea
[23:20] RouletteDare: some new “horror” movie..
[23:20] RouletteDare: oh you’ve heard of it?
[23:20] RouletteDare: everyone laughed at the preview
[23:20] peak volume: yea.. saw the tralier
[23:20] RouletteDare: paris hilton…
[23:20] RouletteDare: man
[23:21] RouletteDare: why
[23:21] peak [...]

It’s been well documented by doctors and scientists alike that the human body requires an average of 8 to 9 hours of sleep per night in order to function at full capacity and maintain peak physical health. However, this is not always a possibility for the working individual.
Students especially, who  must balance their work schedules [...]