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And Now For Something Completely Different: Top 10 Coffee Facts

Posted by William Judd on 16 Feb 2012 / 2 Comments

Here’s something a little bit different than our regular schedule of tech and gaming news: 10 facts you never knew about your favourite hot drink, coffee.

Geek

Darth Vader Burger – The Force is strong with this one

Posted by The Shogun on 05 Jan 2012 / 0 Comment

In anticipation of the release of Star Wars – The Phantom Menace in 3D in France, “Quick”, a fast food restaurant based in the country, is introducing a couple of new burgers.

Gaming

The Guy on the DOOM Cover is Actually Holding Two Guns!

Posted by The Shogun on 21 Oct 2011 / 0 Comment

Courtesy of Today I Learned, probably the best sub-reddit there is around.

Film

Lex Luthor’s mansion and the school in X-Men are one and the same!

Posted by The Shogun on 22 Sep 2011 / 0 Comment

Did you know that the place they filmed Lex Luthor’s mansion in Smallville and the Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters in the X-Men movies are actually the same building.

Cartoons/Animation

Did you know that Beast from Beauty and the Beast actually has a Real Name …

Posted by The Shogun on 26 Jun 2011 / 1 Comment

Remember that 1991 Disney classic, Beauty and the Beast? What most people don’t know is that the “Beast” actually has a real name. Yeah, who knew! If you’re surprised, don’t forget that he did used to be a human being at the beginning of the film.

Apple

Apple has enough cash to buy the mobile phone industry

Posted by The Shogun on 23 Jun 2011 / 0 Comment

… With the exception of Samsung.

In a rather interesting piece of analysis by Horace Dediu at Asymco Market Intelligence, given how much cash reserves Apple have, they probably have about enough “Cash, Cash Equivalents, Short-term marketable securities and long-term Marketable Securities” all amounting to roughly $70 billion to buy out the rest of the mobile phone industry.

Gaming

The Pigs in Angry Birds were inspired by the 2009 Swine Flu Epidemic

Posted by The Shogun on 20 Jun 2011 / 0 Comment

In early 2009, when toying around with numerous game concepts, the Angry Birds characters popped up from one of them. The original idea game from Senior Game Designer Jaakko Iisalo.

Everybody loved the characters, even though there was no clear idea what the game was going to look like. As the concept evolved and the Birds needed some opponents, the pigs were born.

This was around the time the swine flu pandemic scare had reached its highest level, so the sickly green pigs were born out of that!

Science Fiction

The name “Ewok” was never spoken in Return of the Jedi

Posted by The Shogun on 26 May 2011 / 3 Comments

Everybody knows the furry little people who helped to bring down the might of the Empire and yet the name “Ewok” is never mentioned in the film whatsoever. So how does everyone know the name of this species? The only time it appears in the films is in the credits.

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