It’s a fact: Nobody likes to think of death. Whether we’re talking about ourselves, our loved ones or our favorite pet, most people prefer to avoid talking about the subject. And when death comes knocking upon our door, decisions have to be taken. How do you want your body to end up? Eaten away by […]
To celebrate their twentieth anniversary of sandwich making, the folks from Erbert & Gerbert built what they call “the world’s most powerful air vortex cannon”. Enjoy! No idea on how large this thing really is, but according to the cannon’s official website, it’s about as big as the Appolo space capsule, and a little bit […]
This amazing CG animation was created by a small French media marketing company named Akama Studio to promote Nestlé’s KitKat chocolate bar. I normally wouldn’t post something like this, but this animation is way too well made to be ignored. Enjoy!
By Mark O’Neill and Mackenzie Morgan Geek Support has its first question from one of our readers! It comes from Flor in Mexico City : My best friend just made the switch to Linux. After much brainwashing from my part, she decided to switch to Ubuntu 7.10. We had tons of problems on her laptop, […]
By Mark O’Neill I have been thinking for a while now about how to engage the GAS readers more and answering Melvyn’s question in the last post made me decide to bring this idea forward now. As a writer for GAS, I often wonder what you would like to read more about. What’s on your […]
The Encyclopedia of life (EOL) is a new project that went online just a few days ago. Its goal is to create a free online database for every one of Earth’s 1.8 million known species. The site currently features 30,000 entries, but as time passes, the rest of our planet living organisms should appear. On […]
Ever wondered what would happen to a wind turbine that is exposed to too much wind? Here’s exactly what happens: Quite spectacular, wouldn’t you say?
By Mark O’Neill A computer programmer is on trial accused of murdering his wife and the evidence against him is damning. So his lawyer has uniquely resorted to what many have called "the geek defense". So what is some of the evidence against computer programmer Hans Reiser that his lawyer dismisses as weird geek behavior? […]
If you have children who browse the Internet daily, I’m sure you impose some type of restrictions upon their computer usage. Kids are very good at ending up in places they should not be and excel at installing spyware and viruses on your beloved system. As parents, it is our obligation to monitor their activities […]
Some of you geeks probably have a slide-rule in your head — there I go dating myself again (and we all know that dating yourself isn’t sexy), I should have said “math processor” or “calculator”. Anyway, I am personally much better than average at math, but I still can’t do some of the bigger problems in my […]