12 posts and columns on Mars

Viral Video: “John Carter” Is on Mars

in Media on December 2, 2011 at 2:12 am PT

A sci-fi classic goes live-action on the Red Planet.
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Wrigley Targets Web Gamers

in News on August 23, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

In May, Aaron Allar saw an ad on the Web soliciting “test subjects” for an alternate-reality game, and he soon plunged into a world of pulsing beats and blinking lights, black packages arriving at his door and game clues that unlocked more games.

Video: An IBM Film About Chocolate and Babies and Ducks

in Enterprise on June 16, 2011 at 3:39 pm PT

Like stories about ducks? Or babies? How about chocolate? All these and more in this latest video observing IBM’s hundredth anniversary. What’s not to like?
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BoomTown Decodes Ron Conway's Super Angel Super Fit (So You Don't Have To)!

in News on September 24, 2010 at 2:57 am PT

Ah, there’s nothing like a manly hissy fit amongst a passel of white dudes in Silicon Valley to open the fall viewing season! In this latest episode of “Glee,” a group of Super Angel Cheerios plot to stop the entrepreneur kids from getting to the valuations they’ve been working so hard to inflate. Enter the Ron.

New from Google Labs: Google April Fools Overkill

in News on April 1, 2009 at 8:59 am PT

If 2008 (or 2007, 06, 05, 04…) was the year April Fools on the Web jumped the shark, then 2009 was the year it was eaten by it. The Web is so overburdened with pranks this year, it may be that the best April Fools announcement of all proves to be Palm’s, a company promising to deliver real news and not some over-thought hoax. Google alone has posted no fewer than 12 pranks–and none of them match Pigeon Rank in wit.
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Don't Suppose There's Any Crude Oil Up There …

in News on August 1, 2008 at 8:22 am PT

Six years after the Mars Odyssey first discovered evidence of water on Mars, the Phoenix Lander has confirmed it. On Thursday afternoon, a clump of soil pulled from the Red Planet’s frozen arctic sands and brought aboard the spacecraft for testing revealed what appeared to be a small bit of ice.

Don’t Suppose There’s Any Crude Oil Up There …

in News on August 1, 2008 at 8:22 am PT

Six years after the Mars Odyssey first discovered evidence of water on Mars, the Phoenix Lander has confirmed it. On Thursday afternoon, a clump of soil pulled from the Red Planet’s frozen arctic sands and brought aboard the spacecraft for testing revealed what appeared to be a small bit of ice.