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Dungeons & Dragons co-creater dies at 69...
Gary Gygax passed away...
Though I never played this ultimate game of nerdiness, I had a roommate in college, who would spend all hours of the night going about to Dungeons & Dragons matches with his buddies, and would sleep during all hours of the day...
Gygax made a cameo on Futurama...
Gygax is the man in the back... next to Stephen Hawking... Gary Gygax passed away... ... more -
Beer Brewing Bender Complete!
Cold, delicious booze straight from Bender's shiny, metal ass.
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Futurama is the geekiest show on TV!
In the new Futurama DVD Bender's Big Score, the characters encounter Al Gore driving a taxi a hybrid taxi, naturally. Some viewers may chuckle when they notice that the license plate on the former Vice President's cab reads NOCO2. But very few will realize that the the badge number on another cab, 87539319, is also a joke.
Math geeks, however, will find that number hilarious because of something that happened about a century ago. The British mathematician G.H. Hardy was paying a call on the Indian mathematician Srinivisa Ramanujan. "I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one," Hardy later recalled. Ramanujan disagreed. "It is a very interesting number," he insisted. "It is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways."
Futurama, a show made by geeks for geeks, is shot through with impossibly obscure references like that. "The number on Al Gore's cab in that scene also has a secret meaning," says David X. Cohen, who codeveloped Futurama with Matt Groening and serves as showrunner. Cohen refuses to reveal the other gag, but if you visit a fan site like GotFuturama.com a few days after the DVD goes on sale, you're likely to find a screenshot and a detailed explanation written by one of the hardcore fans. "If you care enough, you frame-advance through it," says Cohen. "They've earned that moment of pleasure." In the new Futurama DVD Bender's Big Score, the characters encounter Al Gore driving a taxi a hybrid taxi, naturally. Some view... more -
That's whatever it is you were talking about for you...
The galaxy's greatest velour-covered space captain--and coiner of the term "sexlexia"--has his own soundboard. It's missing some of his most comedic pearls of wisdom, but it's a good start. Recommended for everyone who dreams of piloting their own ship...or being fired from their job. The galaxy's greatest velour-covered space captain--and coiner of the term "sexlexia"--has his own soundboard. It'... more
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Futurama Trailer mocks own network
Gotta love that Fox allows or possibly encourages it's shows to mock their executives and the network's decisions. I'll post some other great examples of this if I find the Family Guy and Arrested Development ones. Gotta love that Fox allows or possibly encourages it's shows to mock their executives and the network's decisions. I'll... more
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