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I’m Sold
George Takei should be Spider Man. I kind of want to be George Takei when I grow up.
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Trivia Thursday
The monstrous supercomputer in Harlan Ellison’s “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” is known as AM. What did those initials ORIGINALLY stand for? The “evermind,” or controlling intelligence, of the robots in the Legends of Dune series was called: A) Mother B) Edessa C) Omnius D) La’al E) Caliban In Robert A. Heinlein’s…
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Geeky Growth Chart
geeky dad’s daughter is about to turn one, so he made an appropriately geeky growth chart to record her progress. He’s also made the file available for download if you want to print one for your own nascent geek. So Princess Leia is taller than Frodo but not quite as tall as a Dalek. Good…
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Footprints
(via Rue the Day!)
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Noprivacyville
Scott Adams has an interesting meditation on the economics of privacy. He makes a good point–the less privacy everyone has, the cheaper it is to be “safe.” You wouldn’t need police to catch speeders. Cars would automatically report the speed and location of every driver. That sucks, you say, because you usually speed, and you…
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If Michael Bay Did “Angry Birds”
Even if you don’t own a smartphone, you’re probably at least peripherally aware of the insanely-popular game “Angry Birds.” If not, it has the following plot: Pigs have stolen some birds’ eggs. The birds do not approve, and in vengeance they hurl themselves at structures the pigs have built. (Why the pigs don’t get jobs…
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Trivia Thursday
Which TV series was based on the novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin? A) The Questor Tapes B) Battlestar Galactica C) Small Wonder D) Not Quite Human E) The Six Million Dollar Man A colony world has used its powerful technology to recreate Hindu culture, whose elite assume the roles of the gods. The hero first…
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Dear Twilight Fans…
Letterpress card available on Etsy (via Blame it On the Voices)
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Toccata and Fugue in D: Drive
It’s not uncommon for computer hobbyists to use vintage floppy drives* for uses other than they were originally intended. George Whiteside has connected four drives to a micocontroller and uses them in a rendition of “Phantom of the Floppera.” This is the kind of thing geeks do to amuse ourselves. (via Neatorama) *As someone who…
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Seen Online
Your father wanted you to have this lightsaber. I mean, he was screaming in pain at the time but I’m sure that’s what he meant. -Obi Wan. — DeathStarPR If we are ever invaded by aliens, the first thing we should do is yawn just to see how much we have in common. — YeahImAshley…