With names like “Beam Me Up Scotchie” and “Phasers on Stun Punch”, there’s no possible way to go wrong if you mix these at your next “Trekker” party… unless the borgs decide to show up of course. Then having a “successful” party is probably the last thing you’ll care about.
Ever wonder how a song gets from the guitar to an MP3, or video gets from the camera to your screen? Sure, everyone knows that an MP3 takes up less space than a WAV file because of “compression,” but do you know exactly what compression is? Xiph.org, which is responsible for all the Ogg media […]
This video was originally uploaded to youtube about 2 years ago, so I was wondering, does current inkjet printers still functionning like that? I’ve stopped using inkjet technology in 2005, and even if ink cartridges dropped price in recent years, toner cartridges for laser printers are still much more cost efficient.
When you hear the word moonshine, it probably brings to mind a bygone era of Prohibition-thwarting, bathtub mixing, car chasing yokels, brewing up batches of questionable alcohol. Or Irish songs. But according to writer Michelle Locke, writing for AP and featured on the Mother Nature Network, moonshine is having something of a renaissance as of […]
Learn how to speed-tie your shoes and save 4 days of your life! [Via Buzzfeed]
Google has launched a new Gmail tool that claims to take the hassle out of filtering incoming messages. But it looks to be a treatment of symptoms rather than a cure for disease. The new “Priority Inbox” is an optional feature that splits your Gmail inbox into three section. One is simply messages you have […]
If you’ve been making videos for YouTube, you’re likely to have noticed that the background music is a thorny issue. Popular music from the RIAA labels and bigger indie labels is usually quickly identified and marked by YouTube. The best case scenario, then, is that YouTube simply “lets you get away with it” and runs […]
Matthew Inman, the guy behind one of my favorite websites of all time, The Oatmeal, has recently given an awesome Ignite presentation titled “How to Get 5 Million People to Read Your Website.” We’ve created viral content on occasion here on geeks are sexy (such as the teapot blowing phenomenon, which ended up on BBC […]
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single geek in possession of a good dice bag, must be in want of a geek lady with whom to roll his dice. One of the themes I’ve noticed, when writing about geek girls in general, is that many of our readers feel a little out of […]
Where do you go to get uncensored news stories? Google News? Wikileaks? Well, how about Flickr? Yes, that’s right, the photosharing site could soon be the place to go to read news stories without the detection of hostile governments. A system known as Collage, which will become publicly available on Friday, allows users to hide […]