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Chronogasm: Slick, lickable sci-fi watch makes us drool

There was once a less-enlightened era — not too long ago, we might add — when reading and watching science fiction & fantasy made you a square, a pariah, a social untouchable. Thankfully, that wyrm has turned. These days, sci-fi is cool, man. Gobs of the most successful movies of all time are sci-fi and [...]

MINE admin | August 27th, 2008 | Continued

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A movie so horrifying, you can’t watch it alone … or can you?

We guess Ram Gopal Varma had it coming. After all, the well-known Bollywood film producer and director audaciously claimed that his latest film, Phoonk, was so frightening, so terrifying … so mind-meltingly scary … that no person could watch it alone.
Of course, it’d be impossible to challenge such a claim, since the new movie (about [...]

MINE admin | August 26th, 2008 | Continued

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Superhero novel needs your help to become #1 bestseller

Bear witness to history in the making, dear MINE readers … and help contribute to it! MINE contributor Mur Lafferty isn’t just the wily mind behind our awesome Geekgasm columns — she’s also a novelist and podcaster.
Today sees the release of Mur’s superhero novel Playing For Keeps, and it’s so damned good, it’s scorching its [...]

MINE admin | August 25th, 2008 | Continued

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Velvet Crusher: Evil … yet awesome

In April, science-fiction author and blogger John Scalzi (who just won the 2008 Hugo Award for “Best Fan Writer” — rawk! we love you, John!) made a rather cryptic blog post titled, “It Has Begun.” This was the first warning to a certain unidentified victim that something was coming:
Arrangements have been made. Wheels set into [...]

MINE admin | August 22nd, 2008 | Continued

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Feature Article #5

Help spread the MINE meme!

If you dig what we’re doing here at MINE, you would rock our little worlds by posting one of these spiffy MINE Headline Widgets seen below (or here if you’re catching this in an RSS reader) on your blog, website, Myspace, Facebook page, etc. Simply click the “Get Widget” tab at the bottom of one [...]

MINE admin | July 31st, 2008 | Continued

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MINE is your one-stop shop for entertainment news, crazy rumors, Internet memes, whimsical news bites, music, gossip … you name it. We’ve amassed a small army of savvy, slightly-snarky writers — we call them “MINERS” — dedicated to extracting the most fun and interesting stuff from the webscape.
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Giant penis invades new Guitar Hero game; rocks out with its…

Gaming blog Joystiq has an awesome Q&A interview with Guitar Hero: World Tour project director Brian Bright about the development of the game, how players can create and distribute their own playable songs, and much more.
But not once did reporter Jem Alexander ask about the giant pecker that apparently takes center stage in the game…

Is [...]

27Aug2008 | MINE admin | 4 comments | Continued
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Her hee-hees make us go wee-wee

We discovered this over at UniqueDaily.com, where a staffer there not only called rightly called this woman’s giggles “the world’s most infectious laugh,” but warned readers that “I pissed myself watching this, so be careful!”
Heee! We nearly pissed ourselves, too.

We wondered if this was a sham, and then realized … why would anyone fake their [...]

27Aug2008 | MINE admin | 0 comments | Continued
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The ABC’s of Making Excuses

Jared Von Hindman is an artist whose work sports Burtonesque lines, brilliant hues and designs, and barbed-wire dark humor. His site, Head Injury Theater, is a great showcase of his wicked — and perhaps for some, slightly disturbed — art and comics.
Here’s an example of Jared’s sense of humor (and ours): Emo Emu. “If I [...]

27Aug2008 | MINE admin | 0 comments | Continued
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The cutest panda picture evar. Srsly.

Mined by: J.C. “I’ve Been Bamboozled” Hutchins, via I Can Has Cheezburger

27Aug2008 | MINE admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Yep. Tiger Woods has superpowers.

EA Sports’ video game Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 has an (probably unintentional) option for a “Jesus Shot,” in which Tiger can whack the golf ball while standing on water. It looks like a glitch, according to YouTube user Levinator25’s video:

Savvy EA Sports found his video, and uploaded its own vid, saying: “As a [...]

27Aug2008 | MINE admin | 1 comment | Continued
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“Song Fu” assaults ears with cool, funny music

Director Kevin Smith’s Quick Stop Entertainment came up with a brilliant idea to give quirky, fun, and below-the-radar musicians some time in the spotlight, to help give them more exposure. How? By hosting a competition, of course.
Masters Of Song Fu is a weekly song competition, described as “a songwriting version of Iron Chef.” The participating [...]

27Aug2008 | MINE admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Cool software transforms your digital pics into 3D environments

You’re undoubtedly aware that there is computer software that allows you to that pile of photos from, say, your last family trip to the Grand Canyon, and “stitch” them together into one visual experience. These apps are great for creating spiffy digital panorama presentations, for instance.
But you probably don’t about this ubercoolness: a program that [...]

27Aug2008 | MINE admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Carbonite cake: Harrison Ford never looked so yummy

Baker and professional cake-maker Michelle is very good at what she does. The website for her company, Confectionary Delights, features galleries of her lovely wedding cakes, birthday creations and more.
But this… Golly, we’re torn. Should we appreciate the creative intent put forth to realize a cake version of one of the most iconic props (and [...]

26Aug2008 | MINE admin | 3 comments | Continued
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Casting call: “Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!” … The Movie

Youngster gamers will never be able to understand just how effing amazing the original 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System was for us latchkey kids of the 1980s (between the NES, G.I. Joe cartoons and cable TV, we were good little TV-addicted zombies). The NES was a bona-fide phenom back then, and its graphics and gameplay were [...]

26Aug2008 | MINE admin | 0 comments | Continued
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DeLorean Pron: Kanye’s new video features DMC classic

We’re unapologetic DeLorean geeks — blame the endless fascination on watching our VHS copy of Back To The Future back in the day, ’til the thing was the video equivalent of mulch –  so we perked right up when we spotted this new music video by Kanye West.
It’s for Kanye’s song “Good Morning,” and features [...]

26Aug2008 | MINE admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Our new favorite webcomic: “Partially Clips”

The title’s wordplay alone — “partial eclipse” — is one of the many reasons why Partially Clips is an awesome webcomic … and it just gets better from there.
As always, we’re late to the party (Partially Clips has been on the Web since 2002 — we’re terminally square), but we’ll assume that not all MINE [...]

26Aug2008 | MINE admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Awesome mockumentary: “World’s Greatest YouTube Commenter”

We recently reported on the awesome sauce that Cracked.com regularly serves, but doggone it, this video the staff recently created is worth sharing, big-big. While this might seem ridiculous now, we think the vid is positively prophetic. Give it five years, max.

(Here’s a direct link to the video.)
Mined by: J.C. “Will They Ever Do A [...]

25Aug2008 | MINE admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Princess Zelda needs your help! Again!

Thankfully, the Windows operating system makes things so much easier than Nintendo’s platform…

Mined by J.C. “Our Princess Is In Another Castle” Hutchins, via Digg

25Aug2008 | MINE admin | 1 comment | Continued
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