Fans of The Big Bang Theory might have seen the episode where Sheldon and Rajesh try to decide whether to watch Saturn 3 or Deep Space Nine by playing “Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock” (“The Lizard-Spock Expansion”, season 2, episode 8).

Samuel Kass and Karen Bryla originally invented this modification of the popular Rock-Paper-Scissors game in 1998 to lower the perceived probability of 75-80% of games played between friends ending in ties.

While the rules for the original “Rock-Paper-Scissors” game are:

• Scissors cuts Paper
• Paper covers Rock
• Rock crushes Scissors

… the rules for the improved “Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock” version are:

• Scissors cuts Paper
• Paper covers Rock
• Rock crushes Lizard
• Lizard spoisons Spock
• Spock smashes Scissors
• Scissors decapitates Lizard
• Lizard eats Paper
• Paper disproves Spock
• Spock vaporizes Rock
• Rock crushes Scissors

Google recently released a Mac version of its Google Email Uploader. This free application for Mac OS X helps companies transition to Google Apps for your Domain accounts by automatically transferring a user’s emails from Apple Mail, Eudora, Thunderbird, or any other mbox or Maildir-based archives to their Google Apps for your Domain accounts.

Currently the application doesn’t support non-Google Apps email accounts such as gmail.com and googlemail.com.

This six-minute movie by the Hayden Planetarium shows the entire known universe humanity has mapped so far.

The world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas (maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History) was used to position every single satellite, moon, planet, star, and galaxy to scale and is in its correct, measured location according to the best scientific research to date.