Maki Naro has been with The Lab since the very beginning. He’s written great articles. He has a wonderful webcomic. And perhaps most importantly, he is the caretaker of a magnificent beard. But do you know what else he has? You guessed it! A starring role on Penny Arcade’s reality competition, Stripseach! Penny Arcade is a long-running webcomic that focuses on gaming and gaming culture... »
The subject of our second installment of Illustrated Anatomy is… ME! See, when you have a good friend who happens to be a very talented tattoo artist, things can get awesome pretty quickly. Recently my pal Blue came into town to visit with me and my wife, Kelly. Blue is a fabulous artist. He’s also a hell of a tattoo artist. AND he served as reverend and married Kelly and I (that’... »
In the same spirit of my spam post from New Year’s Eve, I present a Behind-the-Scenes look at the kinds of conversations that we have on our Super Secret Backchannel when we get silly spam. Recently Rebecca received the following email – full of effusive admiration for the great work Skepchick does and also a business proposition: »
We get plenty of email here at The Lab. Most of them are links to cool projects, interesting articles, and other neat-o stuff sent in by our wonderful readers. (Seriously, you all are fantastic with that. Never stop.) But every so often, we get weird-o spam or requests to write guest posts with embedded links to outside websites, for… profit? I don’t know. Anyway, rather than ignore th... »
One of my 5 jobs is freelance work for an art dealer. I do framing and matting and stuff. Today, I was delivered a print that needs to be sent to a paper conservator for restoration before it can be framed. I took one look at the print and spoke the following sentence: “What the hell?! I wouldn’t do this to a shitty poster let alone a Picasso!” »
Okay here’s the thing – I could write endlessly about Salvador Dalí; his life, his art, his genius, madness and goofiness, how he and the other Surrealists were heavily influenced by early psychology, how he incorporated atomic theory into his art, how he has influenced me since I was 15-years-old and so on, for pages and pages and pages. Instead, I will direct you lovely folks to his ... »
In less than a week, The Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism (NECSS) will be taking place in New York City. This will be my fourth time attending NECSS and each year has been funner than the last. I've gotten to meet so many people who I had previously known only as teeny little avatars. As it turns out, meeting people that you are friends with online, in person, is super-fan... »
With the recent upgrade of our commenting system comes a pretty fantastic opportunity. You, dear reader, can now log in using any number of programs including, but not limited to, Facebook, Twitter, G+, Steam & OpenID. But even better, you can now post images in the comments. We can have some real fun with this, gang. So let's start off with some sharing. The featured image today is a sna... »
