Literal Barrage

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

…Cause, dang, son, those are [...]

Real men don't do laser light Floyd shows. They use a Tesla coil to play the Tetris theme song and the Super Mario Brothers' "underground theme":

I am fully cognizant of my delinquent blogging — apologies all around. I've been in full recovery mode since taking the redeye from SFO to PHL on Friday night. Short observations on that flight? Sucked like a brand-new Dyson 07 with the full pet hair kit. Stupid US Airways.
In exchange for my [...]

Have you seen the new Transformers "exclusive" trailer over on Yahoo! Movies yet? Proceed there posthaste or imperil your Official Geek Status and prepare to turn in your membership card, slide rule and protractor.
Sweet.

WARNING: GEEKY CONTENT AHEAD
If you have no desire to read about login shells, Linux, source code management or other similarly geeky content, you'd best be skipping this one. -ed.
Have you ever allowed a nuisance to go on for literally years simply because you couldn't be bothered to do enough research to effectively nip it in [...]

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)":