In college football, your mascot is key. You want a strong symbol to represent your school, like a bruin (a ferocious, yet lovable giant brown bear). Who wants to rally under a banana slug (sorry UC Santa Cruz) or a condom (not so sorry USC)?
The poor students at the University of Mississippi, better known as Ole Miss haven’t had a …
“There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.” – Commander William Adama from Battlestar …
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Don’t believe the rumors just yet. Her publicist tells Techland the information is “totally rumor” and “very premature.”
“A lot of the information is inaccurate,” Portman’s rep said. “Everything is …
Nike’s Nike+ GPS will finally let you untie that monitoring device from your shoe and run free with your iPhone or iPod Touch, the way nature never intended.
The Nike+ App tracks your distance, speed and route with the help of the iPhone’s GPS. (If you get the app for iPod Touch, you won’t have the mapping function.) You can brag …
It’s two weeks into Notre Dame’s foray into their iPad-piloted class, and students and professors claim that the new interface is easier and better to use. The project management class led by Professor Corey Angst is part of the university’s eReader study and Notre Dame’s first paperless class. All materials for the 40 students are …
“We need rest. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised.” – Zapp Brannigan from Futurama
Has the Identity of Top Gear’s ‘The Stig’ Finally Been Revealed? [BBC]
Japan Treads Slowly in 3D [Variety]
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The first images of Batman: Arkham City have leaked. We’re not sure if they’re real either, but if they are the game looks pretty impressive. It’s not out until 2011, but the creators are already buzzing about it. There’s …
Growing up in the digital age, kids these days sure know how to tweet and text. But, what ever happened to good old fashioned dog-eared paperback books from the library? You know, the kind you can drip ice cream on without worrying that it will short out or give to your next door neighbor without your mother yelling “YOU GAVE YOUR WHAT …
You can now remain online and in touch with space, the final frontier with NASA App HD for the iPad. At the touch of your screen you can get access to all the answers the universe has to offer. (Although, we still think NASA is wrong when they say Pluto is not a real planet.)
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In honor of Machete, we’re counting down the top ten men and women who fight with sharp, pointy sticks that can slice and dice. From the obvious Machete to Wolverine, some of our favorite over-the-top action stars have got downright dirty with the precision blade. Even though a knife or a sword isn’t exactly high tech, it’s definitely …
Human hockey pucks? Throwing the competition as a strategy? Practical jokes taken wrong? It might sound like an episode of MTV’s Road Rules or CBS’s The Amazing Race, but it’s actually WCG Ultimate Gamer 2.
If you haven’t caught on to WCG Ultimate Gamer 2, it’s a reality TV style gaming competition that pits competitive gamers around …
