List of posts with the tag: Island
Black Sails: Pirate TV series produced by Michael Bay
Starz Channel announced the straight-to-series of “Black Sails” (working title) from executive producer Michael Bay. The new Starz Original series is expected to air in 2014. The eight-episode first season of the pirate adventure centers on the tales of Captain Flint and his men, and takes place twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic… |
May 9th, 2012 Series 0 comments |
The New Windows 8 Logo looks like the Shetland Flag
Windows 8 has a new logo, and Microsoft says it is inspired in a windows (not a flag), in the first logo of Windows 1.0, and finally in the new metro interface. But it really looks like the flag of the Shetland islands. Shetland is a subarctic archipelago of Scotland that lies north and east… |
February 18th, 2012 Design 0 comments |
Lost, a new epilogue: How It Should Have Ended
[Spoilers] If you haven’t still seen Lost ending, avoid the video and this post Following the demise of Jacob, the island’s protector, we already know that Hurley becomes the successor to Jacob as caretaker of the island. This alternative ending looks like the 12-minute epilogue titled “The New Man in Charge”, and shows how is… |
January 5th, 2012 Animations, Humor 0 comments |
The biggest insect in the world was found in New Zealand
Adventurer Mark Moffett was on Little Barrier Island in New Zealand when he found this guy. The giant, cricket-like insect was recently declared the world’s biggest and is so large that it eats full-sized carrots. He came across the cricket-like creature, which has a wing span of seven inches, after two days of searching on… |
December 1st, 2011 Animals 0 comments |
Doing a high five with a whale
High five with a whale: If you read a recent front page story of the San Francisco Chronicle, you would have read about a female humpback whale that had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle… |
November 3rd, 2011 Animals 0 comments |
Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides, after credits scene
Just like the previous three Pirates of the Caribbean movies, there is also an extra scene after the credits of On Stranger Tides. [ Spoilers alert] The after credits scene shows Angelica Malon (Penélope Cruz) left alone on the beach on the island that Jack Sparrow left her on. You see her look down at… |
May 27th, 2011 Movies 1 comment |
Tsunami: Earthquake Magnitude 8.9 hits Sendai, Honshu, Japan
A catastrophic earthquake has struck Northern Japan, 150 miles off the coast. The quake hit on Friday, March 11, 2011 at 06:25:51 UTC, with a magnitude of 8.9. The agency has issued a tsunami warning for Japan’s Pacific coast, saying tsunami waves as high as 6 meters can be expected in some areas. This is… |
March 11th, 2011 World 12 comments |
Video of the 6.3 Earthquake in SOUTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND
Earthquake Details: Magnitude 6.3 This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Date-Time: Monday, February 21, 2011 at 23:51:43 UTC Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at 12:51:43 PM at epicenter Location: 43.600°S, 172.710°E Depth : 5 km (3.1 miles) Region: SOUTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND Distances: NEAR Christchurch, New Zealand 225 km (140 miles) SSE of… |
February 22nd, 2011 World 0 comments |
Kate, we have to go back !!!
We weren’t supposed to leave the island. That’s not how it was supposed to happen. We have to go back, Kate! Great photo of Jack from Lost |
February 9th, 2011 Series 0 comments |
Back to the Future + Lost = Back To the Island
Epic t-shirt design. The guys from Dharma need to create this time machine in their Volkswagen T2. Author: Jimiyo in Facebook |
February 9th, 2011 Geek, Series 0 comments |
FIFA: The stadiums that Qatar will build for the 2022 World Cup
Qatar was chosen to host the 2022 World Cup and now it’s time to check out the first designs for the new stadiums. Qatar plans on building an air-conditioned island stadium with a capacity of 86,000. It will reportedly be completed by 2019. This image shows its design: |
December 2nd, 2010 Constructions, Sport 0 comments |
Google’s Doodle in honor of Robert Louis Stevenson
Today’s Doodle is dedicated to the birthday of Robert Louis Stevenson, with a drawing representing his book, Treasure Island. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr… |
November 13th, 2010 Internet 0 comments |