Literal Barrage

To wit:
Exhibit A: Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki, possibly one of the geekiest Wikis out there.
Exhibit B: Wikipedia Brown and the Case of the Captured Koala, a piece which should make old-school readers' hearts jump for referential joy. It begins:

Mr. and Mrs. Brown had one child. They called him Leroy, [...]

First off, a love song, sung by geeks, gone horribly, horribly awry:

Next up, one of the absolute high points in Western action cinema, the car chase sequence from Bullitt:

From Web 0 to Web 2.0 in five minutes' time:

Lastly, rock out to the oxymoronic "Heck No! (I'll Never Listen To Techno)":

What to do when you know that the Google Maps/Earth satellite is going to make an overflight of your area at a specific time? Why, create renditions of Space Invaders and what looks like a Cylon Raider big enough for the sat. to pick up.
That there takes talent, skill, ingenuity and a wanton disregard [...]

Glenn Reynolds pointed out the following highly interesting story over at SciFi.com today:

Diamond Age, based on Neal Stephenson's best-selling novel The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, is a six-hour miniseries from Clooney and fellow executive producer Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Productions.
When a prominent member of society concludes that the futuristic civilization in [...]

A colleague was drafting a memo to send out company-wide today and forwarded it to me for review. The copy was mostly good, although he referenced several "servers that will be effected by ongoing work" or somesuch. I replied that, while the memo itself was good, I had a grammatical bone to pick: [...]

We dressed Will up in his new Superman PJs for Halloween night (he had a home-made costume my wife made for him on earlier in the day - he was a spider) and, well, I just couldn't help posting a picture or two. Ain't he cute?

I was talking to one of our engineers yesterday (let's just call him "A.") about a certain senior engineer (let's just call him "C.") when A. revealed a very funny set of circumstances surrounding C. revealed by a third engineer (let's call him "D.").
C. is a programmer from Ye Olde Schoole - until recently, he [...]