“Right Turn, Clyde!” I usually forget everything I read at night by the time I wipe the morning sleepies from my eyes, but here’s a little tidbit on primate intelligence that stuck with me:
“There is a saying among primate keepers that if you give a screwdriver to a chimp, it will throw it at someone. [...]

“Move it son, I need your toys, I’m making serious stuff here!” - Sorry chubby-fingered little ones, Legos are not toys anymore. They are the premiere building material for robot nerds and conceptual artists alike. So you can stop building that stupid little house, junior. It’s crap compared to this stuff:

The Art of Brick: Nathan [...]

Lucero brings their distinctive blend of impassioned, whiskey-soaked, alt-country-punk goodness to the North Star Bar this Tuesday, August 12th. If you’re a fan of both Jawbreaker and Centro-matic like me, this show should knock yer socks off. Buy Tickets. Listen. Watch video below!

Bike Art: Screens ‘N’ Spokes is “all about awesome art and a great cause,” benefiting the National MS Society and supporting the Screens ‘N’ Spokes bike team in the MS150 City to Shore (Philly to NJ)  bike ride on September 27-28 - click if you’d like to join!
Once again, Sam and the SNS gang have [...]

Enjoy: More Failure

No, This is Not a Kidnapping: The lovely Nicole Brewer of CBS3 Philly chats with Geekadelphia’s Tim and Eric and gets exclusive bonus footage of a super-fast chinchilla! Check out the video. Nice job fellas!
Blind Painter: Esref Armagan cannot see, but he sure can paint. {via boingboing.net}
Colossal Waste of Time: But I still watched the [...]

99% of the time Facebook is nothing more than a huge productivity-killing distraction and that’s why we like it. “Wow, Jenny’s kids look nothing like her, thank god for that.” “George is playing golf today, fascinating!”
But every so often you traipse across some news you use. Case in point, in one of his status updates, [...]

Every single time I enter Starbucks:
“Hi, what can I get started for you today?”
“Hi, could I please have a large coffee?”
“Venti coffee…?”
“Um, yeah, whatever dude.”
Grievance #1: I know many of your drinks require special machines, beakers, mortar and pestles, etc. to prepare, but stop with the word “started.”  How about what can you get me [...]

This is strictly for 8% of the UsedWigs readership, guys only, ladies need not go any further. Watch as Colbert makes a minor oopsie while Canada’s greatest export entertains all of us erstwhile dungeon masters and 4th-level dwarves. Viva las Rush!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvEVV2BJw08