A few weeks back, when Sony dropped the price of the PS3 to $299, they started airing the following ad to promote the new deal: But now that this has been running for a few weeks, it seems that Nigeria is Mad at Sony and wants them to withdraw the ad. The country also “demands […]
Hey Everyone! I haven’t received my own official Geeks are Sexy t-shirt yet, but John Chow, the root of all evil himself, has already received his, and I must admit it looks pretty darn fine on him. The only complain he had about the shirt? He told me the robotic girl should have weared a […]
By Sterling “Chip” Camden Contributing Writer, [GAS] Since we last left our heroes back in July, several new browser versions have been released: Chrome 3, Opera 10, Lunascape 5.1.5, and incremental updates to Firefox, Safari, and even Internet Explorer 8. So it’s time for us to revisit our benchmarks. Dromaeo benchmark The Dromaeo test suite […]
Sometimes it’s good to have some low-tech skills, like reading a map. Or asking for directions. The last time I was in New York City, I found getting to places to which I’d never been quite simple. All I had to do was ask whoever I was with to direct me to my next destination, […]
Every so often you’ll see a print-on-demand machine which is billed as changing the way publishing works. The dream is to be able to walk into a bookstore and quickly print off a copy of any book you like rather than be limited by what is currently in stock on the shelves. That’s likely still […]
By Natania Barron Contributing Writer, [GAS] We hear a lot about Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. And of course, there’s been recent buzz about Google’s Chrome. But few Americans outside web design and IT have ever heard about Opera, a browser that is far more popular globally than you might expect. In fact, Opera 10 […]
Check out this absolutely amazing remote controlled LED-based hard drive clock build by a Polish tinkerer: Amazing little device isn’t it? And while I wouldn’t put it on display anywhere in my house, I can still appreciate the work that went into building it. [Via Gizmodo]
Ladies and Gentlegeeks, let me present you, the incredible, amazing, awesome Apple Distortion Field. Let the brainwashing begin: All these extracts were taken from Apple’s September 09 keynote. If you weren’t an Apple fanboy/girl before, chances are you’ve just been converted.
So the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has this Geek of the Week feature, which mostly seems to be interviews with random techies, but they did uncover this guy: A computer science lecturer at the University of Washington, livening up his classroom by busting some rhymes about the joys and perils of Java. Featuring some straight-up gangsta lyrics […]
If you thought Google couldn’t possibly take control of every aspect of the internet, you were wrong. If you’ve ever tried to sign up to a website or post a comment, and been asked to type in a word or numbers that appear in a picture – or worse, try to figure out the difference […]