Philadelphia Metro Residents: Get Thee To The Franklin Institute

For lo, Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination is currently running and is eminently check-out-able. (CrunchGear has pictures to prove it.)

Posted by Doug on February 12th, 2008 | 1 Comment Posted in Movies, Outright Geekage, Science

My Friend Flickr

If you’re looking for something to while away a Wednesday afternoon, you could do far worse than the following photosets on Flickr: Understanding art for geeks and Andy Ihnatko’s awesome behind-the-scenes tour of Alcatraz. Well worth your time, both of ‘em.

Posted by Doug on January 23rd, 2008 | Comments Off Posted in History, Outright Geekage, Pictures

There’s Just No Accounting For Crazy. Or Masochistic. Or Masochistic-Crazy.

As I wended my way home last night, I was listening to this “week’s” FLOSS Weekly and just about had to pull my car to the side of the road, due to my sheer astonishment. Leo and Randal had a developer on who was promoting Seaside, a web development framework for Smalltalk (particularly the Squeak [...]

Posted by Doug on December 14th, 2007 | 22 Comments Posted in Observations, Open Source Software, Outright Geekage, Software

It Is Here, Thus I Shall Not Be

Awww yeah. Our copies arrived at work this morning — this is my first official post from a newly-Leopardized Mac Pro. I’m about to give Bootcamp a spin and my Applications folder is near-pristine, so I’ve lots of work to do. Onward, upward and Leopard. W00t!

Posted by Doug on October 26th, 2007 | 1 Comment Posted in Apple, Macintosh, Outright Geekage

Lets All Point And Laugh At The People Who Dont’ Know How To Apostrophize Or “Quote”

Before I begin, I should admit to a bit of personal Grammar Naziism; that is to say, I generally have little tolerance for people who don’t take the time to learn to use proper punctuation, spelling and grammar and thus inflict linguistic atrocities upon those of us that do care about such matters. Thus it [...]

Posted by Doug on October 11th, 2007 | 1 Comment Posted in Humor, Outright Geekage

Did Anyone Else Get 33% More Likely To Buy An iPhone Yesterday?

Okay, so y’all did see the coverage of Apple’s little shindig yesterday where they announced New iPod Nanos with screen rezzes equivalent to the iPod Video iPod “Classics” featuring 80GB and 160(!)GB capacities The friggin’ iPod “Touch”, otherwise known as “iPhone Without The Phone Part” And a $200 drop on the iPhone’s previously astronomical pricetag [...]

Posted by Doug on September 6th, 2007 | Comments Off Posted in Apple, Outright Geekage, Technology
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