Tonight’s a big night in Mythbusters land. Kari Byron returns from maternity leave, and gets to play with some seriously big rifles (see above). It’s quite the sight to behold – the new mother, wielding her little friend so enthusiastically. Then again, that’s why we love her: She’s always up for some serious firepower and eye-popping …
New episode of “Human Target” airs on FOX at 8 p.m.
New episode of “Ugly Americans” airs on Comedy Central at 10:30 p.m.
New Comics Day
“It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown” airs on ABC at 8 p.m.
The Daily Dose
Tuesday, Mar. 30, 2010
Today in Techland: We rolled out the things we’ll geek-out for in April. (Hint: Kick-Ass, Stephen King, Brightest Day) Doug declared war on that pesky rain, I showed some love for Rube Goldberg and Lev bravely went back into Twilight territory. Kind of a slow day all around, but just in case…
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Zombie of the Week: Supernatural’s Loveable Undead Make For Dubious Lore
Welcome to ‘Zombie of the Week,’ folks, where each week we’ll present you with a different brain-eating member of the undead that has captured our fancy. There is no methodology to our Zombie Awesomeness meter, just our own piqued interests. Got a zombie we should see? Comment below. No zombie is too small, too short-lived, or too gross. …
The Loadout for March 30, 2010: New Games to Attack the Week With
Welcome to the Loadout. Our philosophy is that the working week is a recurring boss battle that you’ll need the proper weapons to take down. The supplies at hand won’t always be pretty but you might just be able to hold out until the weekend. Green means add it to your arsenal, yellow leaves it up to your discretion and red means …
Exclusive Preview: Firestar #1 Art by Emma Rios
We’re very fond of Spanish cartoonist Emma Rios’ work on the recent Strange miniseries–check out her Flickr gallery–and we’ve always kind of had a thing for Firestar from the old Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends cartoon. Now we get to see both of them at the same time: a Firestar one-shot, drawn by Rios and written by Sean McKeever, …
King Tut Takes 2010 Rube Goldberg Competition
The Rube Goldberg Competition challenges teams of college (and high school) students to over-engineer a contraption that will perform a simple task – think, Mousetrap. Saturday, engineering students flocked to Purdue University for the national contest, ready and excited to … dispense some hand sanitizer.
What I love about this …
Broadsword Handle Umbrella Glove Slaps All Other Umbrellas
There’s not much that’s inherently cool about umbrellas, but there’s a lot that’s cool about broadswords. Mix an umbrella and a broadsword together and you’ve got a combined level of coolness that’s somehow equal to more than the sum of its parts.
Available from ThinkGeek for $40, the Broadsword Handle Umbrella features a …
They Should Make It: Silent Car Horns That Jolt Other Drivers
Okay, so my idea for this week’s They Should Make It column is a system of car horns that, instead of making noise, jolt the driver in front of you with a little buzz that comes from a mechanism built into all cars’ driver’s seats.
Why?
For starters, it would make the streets a lot quieter. Let’s face it, most of the time …