Typically my article ideas come from, you know, the Internet. But this morning I was reading a fascinating piece in the current issue of Wired that was so astonishing and so cool, I just had to share it with the Geeks Are Sexy crew. Thankfully Wired presents much of their magazine content online, and in [...]
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Bryan Cruz, who has one line in the upcoming parody film, “Vampires Suck,” spent a lot of time with his friends preparing for his big Hollywood debut.
A public relations firm has “settled” Federal Trade Commission charges that it wrote bogus reviews of games on iTunes on behalf of its clients. Its the first major such case since the introduction of new guidelines on disclosure from people writing online. Reverb Communications staff had “consistently” posted reviews on iTunes using false usernames. Every [...]
Had a bad day and need your ration of cute? Here’s Wicket from “Return of the Jedi,” in knitted stuffed animal form. This Wicket (and others like him) are called “Amigurumi,” which is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small stuffed animals. Our friends over at GeekDad pointed us to other geeky Amigurumi, including [...]
If you’ve somehow managed to avoid the Angry Birds phenomenon, you might not be able to escape for much longer. The game’s creators are heading to Hollywood to try to strike cash-in deals. The game itself, which appears on the iPhone platform, is remarkably simple. You use a catapult to fling birds at a pile [...]
Such is the power of the Internet that we can match people who supply crazy goods and services with people who demand crazy goods and services. For example, dead flowers for really rotten relationships. At Dirty Rotten Flowers, you can order a bouquet of rotting flowers, or the “Morticia,” (a dozen decapitated roses), and send [...]
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In a parallel universe, Belgian actor Patrick Bauchau played Captain Picard. I’m basing that claim on a 23 year old memo that surfaced, on Paramount letterhead, written by John Ferraro, who was then a young development executive in Paramount’s syndicated television division, to John Pike, president of Paramount’s TV division at the time. The memo, [...]
Originally a Borders Exclusive, these bookends let you use the iconic Star Wars logo to support your favorite tomes or DVDs, be they Rebel or Imperial, Jedi, or Sith. Each set of bookends is individually hand-numbered and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Together, the two ends measure 9.25″ long x 3″ wide x 4.25″ [...]
One of the geekiest moments of any year, the leap second, may be under threat. The International Telecommunications Union, the organization that governs global communications issues including how computers deal with time, is calling for feedback on the idea of dropping the practice. The leap second is designed to correct the disparity between the rigid [...]
