The Google-Maps-Street-View-mobile has apparently caught some E.T. like space shuttles floating over London. It even looks like the sidewalkers are looking upward at the celestial disturbance. Cheggit:

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It’s either flying saucers, swamp gas, or God’s playing dots all by his lonesome. Sidenote: Kind of poetic that the CCTV camera on the right isn’t looking upwards, no?

From the creators of Anaconda 3: The Offspring, Raptor Island, and the classic Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon comes something straight out of straight-to-DVD hell:

SciFi Channel’s new corporate identity, SyFy.

Maybe it’s just me, but it reminds me of a certain sexually transmitted disease. I recognize the slap-in-the-face attitude SciFi Cha*Ahem* SyFy is taking here; Nerds don’t have sex, and by labelling their entire corporation after an STD, they’re effectively giving a giant FUCK YOU to the few who stood by the network through the awful (not in the good way) miniseries/TV movies.

The new brand is being universally panned as the worst idea since Basilisk: The Serpent King, by the way.

“Imagine Greater”? How about “Imagine Better Content without the Identity Crisis”?

The Woz is so awesome that when he does the Cha-Cha, sparks fly out from his feet

The really sad thing is, upon seeing this image most nerds will only notice Woz (and those sharp black slacks with pink French Cuff), paying no attention to the half naked Russian Ballerina next to him. Oh, her name? Karina Smirnoff.

Bear Grylls is awesome. Dude jumped out of a plane, his parachute failed at 16,000 feet, freefell to the ground, broke his back in 3 places when he was in the Special Forces — and now he’s risking his life in ways Jacques Cousteau could have only dreamed about! Need more convincing?

I am admittedly a newcomer to Bear Grylls’ deceptively simply named show Man vs. Wild, but I’ve been addicted ever since I first saw the crazy Brit jump out of a plane a few weeks ago into some random jungle. I’ve watched 5 episodes of his international shenans and have found myself constantly questioning: how awesome is Bear Grylls, really? I think I finally found my answer after a mini-marathon last night.

Bear Grylls is nowhere near as awesome as his cameraman.

The cameraman (I know he has a name… but how cool is it to just refer to him as “The Cameraman”) somehow manages to always get the perfect angle, effortlessly putting himself in imminent danger to show just how deadly  Bear’s situation is. Sometimes I swear the man is floating alongside Bear, as he rapels down the face of some unnamed cliff.

Bear almost seems to recognize The Cameraman’s awesomeness, as evident in this CollegeHumor interview (Really? CollegeHumor?):

That’s pretty close. What’s harder? To be Bear Grylls or to be his Cameraman? Probably the cameraman. He is amazing. Simon (Reay) is doing about 90% of everything I do, while carrying my equipment. In my eyes he’s very much the unsung hero in all of this.

Now, I know The Cameraman isn’t always with Bear — sometimes Bear needs to go into a glacier through a small opening or something, and The Cameraman has to hang back — but The Cameraman does MORE than 90% than Bear because he’s lugging around some equipment, and keeping the camera aimed at Bear at all times, no matter where they are.

Point is: The Cameraman is just as awesome, if not awesomer, than Bear Grylls. He should have his own Cameraman to document just how incredible he is.

BONUS: Bear Grylls dispatches a lizard in the manliest way possible.

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