EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson

The international tournament started today and lasts until the final battle on Sunday 8/21.

If you love your RTS action and have some spare time at work, you should definitely catch part of a match (if for nothing else but to listen to the intensity of the commentators). For those of you on Steam, you can find it if you search for DOTA.

Everyone else can find the live stream here.

No, this isn’t really geeky, but I love it when bands and artists show appreciation to their fans.

Does it hurt that I’ve loved Blink since 6th grade? No. Is this to promote their new song and album? Yes.

Still loved it. Hope you enjoy.

As a friend of mine said, “This must be shared.”

Love it. Title they created is a little offensive though.

If you’re a Star Trek fanatic, then you probably already know some (if not all) of these. I, who just dabbles in it casually, have not. Either way, they are pretty interesting and worth a glance. Here’s an excerpt:

2. Mr. Spock’s skin color was originally different.
Originally, Gene Roddenberry and friends wanted Spock’s skin to be a dark red, or at least to have a red tint. This was abandoned when they realized that on black-and-white TVs, Spock’s skin would look black, possibly as if Spock was in blackface. Plus Leonard Nimoy would have needed hours more in makeup every morning.

Check out the article here.

Now, I know that a lot of Frogpants aficionados, like our very own Scott, are also fans of authors like Patrick Rothfuss and Jim Butcher, which is why I just knew you’d love to see this video of Patrick Rothfuss interviewing Jim Butcher.

Thanks to Shawn Speakman over at the Suvudu blog for putting together this twenty minutes of magic.