Tag: ARTHURC.CLARKE

It should absolutely go without saying that geeks love LEGO. The LEGO affair has spawned an infinite array of designs and contraptions, which typically forces block-heads to exponentially increase the size, complexity and scope of their creations. YouTuber and LEGO engineer Invisibules has shed those expansive trappings, though, and crafted a compact, interlocking machine that is simplistically ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/11/04/2001-geeks-rejoice-world-learns-why-hal-sang-daisy/'; Share We're sure many of you are familiar with the death-of-HAL scene from the Kubrick classic '2001: A Space Odyssey,' in which the rebellious computer slowly, and childishly, drones the lyrics to 'Daisy Bell.' It's one of the most memorable scenes in a film loaded with iconic images (the ...

Yesterday an icon in the world of science fiction, Arthur C. Clarke, died. The 90-year-old geek patriarch suffered from post-polio syndrome. Clarke is best known for his novel '2001: A Space Odessy' which began life as short story called 'The Sentinel' before Stanley Kubrick turned it into a hallucinatory sci-fi epic. Clarke is also credited with having first conjured up the idea of space ...