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…
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…
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…
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.…
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:…
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…
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…
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,…
