Posted in Geekery, Reviews on Feb 11th, 2010 No Comments »
I’ve only had Google Buzz now for about 24 hours, but I already feel that it has the potential to revolutionize the way people communicate with friends and family. It’s easy to look at Buzz as being Google’s too-little-too-late competitor to Facebook, with a bit of Foursquare and a dash of Twitter thrown in. But [...]
Posted in Geekery on Nov 15th, 2008 1 Comment »
I’d argue that browser tabs are the biggest innovation in web browsing in the last 5 years. I’m constantly middle-clicking to open things to read later, or to make it easier to compare between multiple pages. I think a lot of other people are too.
Perhaps then, someone can explain why Google’s web applications have [...]
Posted in Business, Geekery on Oct 1st, 2007 No Comments »
UPDATE: Microsoft has issued a press release confirming the Bungie/Microsoft split. 1UP has got some analysis.
This is a highly suspicious rumor, but one that is just too juicy to pass up. Apparently, Bungie, the Microsoft subsidiary behind the enormously popular Halo series, is splitting off from Microsoft. This would be strange [...]
Posted in Geekery, Lifestyle on Aug 12th, 2007 No Comments »
Call it a fear of commitment, a fear of needles, or a general satisfaction with the natural pastiness of my skin. No matter what you chalk it up too, I’m not much of a tattoo man myself. However, that doesn’t stop me from enjoying the sight of a good tattoo on someone else, especially [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Geekery on Jul 26th, 2007 2 Comments »
Now is your chance to bid on a piece of movie robot history! That’s right, you can own your very own, original, Johnny Five robot from the movie Short Circuit. This is the only known complete robot to remain in existance.
5 feet of aluminum, steel, servos, gears, and vaccu-formed styrene, how can [...]
Posted in Geekery on Jul 13th, 2007 2 Comments »
Don’t forget, if you’re in Manhattan today, today is the day the sun will set precisely on the centerline of every east-west street. This only happens twice a year. The APOD site has a good explanation.
Posted in Geekery on Jul 3rd, 2007 1 Comment »
Fox has been going crazy with their The Simpsons Movie promotions. Among other things, the web site has an avatar builder that allows you to generate a wide variety of Simpsons-esque characters. This is my best shot at creating The Technonaut as Matt Groening might draw him. Those of you who know [...]
Posted in Geekery, Lifestyle on Jul 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
The World Clock shows a running tally of some interesting worldwide statistics. Shown on the clock are things like population growth, hectares of forest lost, average global temperature, and bicycles produced. Pressing one of the big buttons on the top allows you to change the time frame to calculate from. The statistics [...]
Posted in Geekery on Jun 29th, 2007 No Comments »
Joe Vig is a regular Lego guy who keeps ending up in the most unfortunate situations. Wherever he goes, disaster is sure to follow, often hilariously. Poor Joe.
Joe having problems in the kitchen
Joe goes fishing
Joe angers his “business associates”
Joe, the firefighting rookie
[Link via Core 77]
Posted in Geekery on Jun 25th, 2007 No Comments »
xkcd is one of the best webcomics out there, and my personal favorite. It’s written by a young physicist who used to work on robots at NASA’s Langley Research Center. It’s sometimes romantic, usually funny, and always geeky. My only complaint is that it isn’t out every day!
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