Fiction? Almost.

It's always nice to play a game or watch a movie and see a place that is beyond creepy as hell. If there's anything better than that, it may be the fact that some of these settings are actually based on real places. Cracked.com tells us about 6 Fictional Places You Didn't Know Actually Existed, including Arkham Asylum, Middle Earth, and Silent Hill. I know what you're thinking: finally a place to do all those movie scene re-enactments. Just watch out for monsters.

PWNED: Online Gamers Decipher AIDS-like Virus Enzyme Structure

Today, I conquered a monomeric protease enzyme. Tomorrow, Azeroth!

Gamers pride! Within three weeks, a group of gamers managed to create an accurate model of the structure of an AIDS-like virus enzyme which had stumped scientists for years, using an online video game called Foldit. Read more after the jump.

Is Apple Up to Something?

Well, come on, Apple is ALWAYS up to something. So are all the other computer/electronics companies. I mean, what geek doesn't dream of world domination, and what better way to do that than through technology?

Hydrogen Bomb Lost Somewhere in the Atlantic: Expect Mutants in Georgia

Today I Learned Something New shared today that we should all be glad we don't live in Georgia, USA. And for everyone who does live there, you can be excited that maybe, just maybe, you'll be the kind of mutant who will fly and set things on fire mentally.

You don't steal Pikachu. You just DON'T.

Gee, did they think they were going to get away with that sort of copyright infringement? Ube City has a new eco-mascot, and it looks on heckuva lot like that ever-cuddly, thunderbolt-tailed icon we all (well, not all of us...but if you want to fit in with the younguns, just agree with me here) grew up with. Just take a look at the plushy below.
More pics after the jump.

I'm not sure what it means: Confetti Death

Typoe, a graffiti artist from Miami, has made something epic. I always imagined this is what a skull would look like if it threw up and I was on whatever Dumbo drank. For more info and more pics, take a look at the article from Two Four Flinching.

The Do's and Don'ts of Dating Mark Hamill

I actually compiled this list myself back when he had just finished filming for Return of the Jedi. I mean, we were tight back then. We totally had seven invisible children and two imaginary lab puppies. But it was not to be. I made the mistake of moving him from the beach. All I wanted was a little picket fence house in suburbia, but nooooooooooooooooo...sigh. We aren't on speaking terms anymore. It was probably for the best though...he was breaking some statutory laws I'm sure...seeing as I wasn't born yet.

The Dark Knight Rises sneak peeks

Screenrant.com has a bunch of behind-the-scenes footage of the new Bat-flick coming out. As much as I wish I could sound as excited about the random videos of actors doing various things or pictures of Batman observing other scenes off set, I think the article has it down. Take a look here.

I'd vote for a Cosplayer

I spy a politician. Don't see him? He's the blue guy, and he's got my vote for Mayor if I ever go to Nagoya, Japan. Apparently, Takashi Kawamura has been hosting the World Cosplay Summit's international cosplay events since 2003. Ironically, as an article from io9 points out, we in America have come to expect our politicians should always look like car salesmen or important businessmen. If you ask me, we should have a yearly tradition where our politicians have to run around in fuzzy foot pajamas. Forget cosplay, pajamas prove you have a soul.

Sexual Personality may lead to infidelity?

According to an article by Huffington Post, cheating once again leads back to sex. Although either gender was just as likely to be unfaithful in a monogamous relationship, the reasons why vary. For the ladies, it's more about feeling unsatisfied by their partner, meanwhile men who were easily aroused or had some "performance anxiety" were more likely to cheat whether or not the sex was good in their relationship.

Solution: date a man uninterested in sex or date a woman who is easily amused and doesn't get bored. Sounds like a romance movie from the 1800's. But with a lot less female fainting.