Blogging About Blogs – Hyperbole and a Half

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Being a blogger, I often enjoy reading what other creative writers/illustrators put on the internet for the world to see. One of my favourite blogs is called ‘Hyperbole and a Half’.  The blogger (Allie) writes about supposedly mundane occurrences in her life that she makes into hilarious cartoons.  The awful stick figure pictures accompanied by…

The next 10 years of inventions

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Over the past 150 years, humans have advanced technologically at an increasingly rapid pace – we’ve gone from horses to cars; cars to planes; and planes to spacecraft. Nowadays, people (at least in the developed world) drive cars more often than not; there are flights across the globe on a daily basis; there are even…

Battlefield 3 Online Multiplayer

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Warning: Battlefield 3 is an “M” rated game (17+) There are basically four game types in the online multiplayer – team deathmatch (team vs. team, first to get a certain number of kills win), squad deathmatch (multiple squads, first to get a certain amount of kills win), rush (team vs. team, attackers must plant and…

Quantum Locking

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Sounds fancy right? Well, to simplify: Hoverboards might be coming soon in the near future. When a magnet is cooled by liquid nitrogen, it becomes a super conductor that has the ability to “lock” it’s position when exposed to a nearby permanent magnet. Unless you’re a physics nerd, that probably wouldn’t make too much sense…

Battlefield 3 Single Player Campaign

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Warning: Battlefield 3 is an “M” rated game (17+) Without going into too much detail about the plot… a militia know as the PLR has become powerful enough to take on military superpowers and are involved in a plot masterminded “Solomon” to detonate stolen Russian nuclear weapons in large western population centers, most likely to…

SnorgTees. Geek-Nerd T-Shirts FTW.

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Are you someone that laughs are science or math jokes? Or are you at least someone that understands them? If you are, then you should check out this website for t-shirts. It will be your ultimate style soulmate. Look at me go; I’m like a natural born saleswoman. Woohoo. But seriously, these t-shirts are funny.…

Joseph Pujol: the fart composer

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Joseph Pujol was no ordinary man. He could fart the high and low notes. That’s right, fart. To him, farting wasn’t merely a way to release bodily gases. It was a creative way to express himself, as strange as that may sound. He was capable of imitating sounds such as animal calls, musical instruments and…

The evolution of Apple computers

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Following the unfortunate death of Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs, many Apple fans have begun to reflect on the path of his achievements. Here’s a look at how the aesthetics of the world’s “coolest” computer has changed over the decades. 1976 – The Apple I computer (really high-tech, I know): 1977 – The introduction…

Learn to English. Part II

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So last time, you learned how to spell or how not to spell things wrong. This time, we’re going to investigate what it means to say things literally. Just for kicks. For more of this funny stuff, click here. Note: Some of the language and content in this blog isn’t so PG. Here’s a link…