Category: Geek

Tech­nol­o­gy, Sci­ence, etc.

ASAP Story on Eye Candy

Ryan Pear­son, a reporter from the AP con­tact­ed me last week about a sto­ry he was doing on the top­ic of gad­get lust and the phe­nom­e­non of “unbox­ing porn,” which is far less graph­ic than it sounds (just pho­tos of open­ing up gad­get pack­ag­ing). I called him up and we chat­ted for ten min­utes or… Con­tin­ue read­ing ASAP Sto­ry on Eye Candy

Wii Have It All

What start­ed as some vague inter­net rumors appear to be con­firmed: both the sequel to Kata­mari Daman­ci and Gui­tar Hero will be com­ing to the Wii lat­er this year. Beau­ti­ful Kata­mari will be released in late Novem­ber. Before then, it looks like Gui­tar Hero will be on the Wii (as well as the DS, although… Con­tin­ue read­ing Wii Have It All

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My Gmail is Better Than Your Gmail

A cou­ple of weeks ago now, issues with Dreamhost not with­stand­ing, I con­vert­ed over to using Gmail for my own domain after sign­ing up for Google Appli­ca­tions for your (my) Domain. While this makes essen­tial­ly no dif­fer­ence at all to any­one else, oth­er than avoid­ing con­fu­sion on which e‑mail account to respond to, it will… Con­tin­ue read­ing My Gmail is Bet­ter Than Your Gmail

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Geekdad at Wired

Chris Ander­son (edi­tor in chief at Wired mag and author of The Long Tail) announced a new blog at Wired.com this after­noon: Geek­dad. It looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun projects, gad­gets, and advice from the point of view of dads. Need­less to day, I’m excit­ed and it (as well as… Con­tin­ue read­ing Geek­dad at Wired

Geek Test: I Failed

Looks like I have some seri­ous read­ing to do: The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien The Foun­da­tion Tril­o­gy, Isaac Asi­mov Dune, Frank Her­bert Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Hein­lein A Wiz­ard of Earth­sea, Ursu­la K. Le Guin Neu­ro­mancer, William Gib­son Child­hood’s End, Arthur C. Clarke Do Androids Dream of Elec­tric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick… Con­tin­ue read­ing Geek Test: I Failed

Calculating Floor Vibration Frequency

Res­o­nance (by Ran­dall Munroe aka xkcd). I love xkcd and this one is great. I cal­cu­late floor vibra­tion fre­quen­cies all the time! (This com­ic repro­duced under a Cre­ative Com­mons A‑NC 2.5 License)

Fighting ‘The Man’ – International Film Edition

Ever since I decid­ed that pur­chas­ing a DVD of “Monarch of the Glen” at the BBC store at the BBC Tele­vi­sion Cen­tre just out­side of Lon­don would be a good idea, I’ve been haunt­ed with how to watch my legit­i­mate­ly pur­chased tele­vi­sion show. Angela and I have pur­chased a num­ber of oth­er DVD from Amazon.co.uk… Con­tin­ue read­ing Fight­ing ‘The Man’ – Inter­na­tion­al Film Edition

Fame: Is It Any Wonder I Reject You First

Some of you are well aware of how much I use obsess over Newsvine (a news writ­ing and link-blog site). Recent­ly, one of the sites more pro­lif­ic users, Myko­la Bilokon­sky, did e‑mail inter­views with a hand­ful of oth­er users. I was sur­prised that he asked me but I got a real kick out of answer­ing… Con­tin­ue read­ing Fame: Is It Any Won­der I Reject You First

It Is a Delicious Library

Why am I so addict­ed to this pro­gram? It’s just cat­a­logue­ing the stuff I already own! Nev­er-the-less, I can’t stop scan­ning stuff. I had to fight the urge to pur­chase the Blue­tooth bar­code scan­ner when I bought a license for the soft­ware. First of all, it’s sim­ply gor­geous soft­ware. Note how the cov­er image is… Con­tin­ue read­ing It Is a Deli­cious Library