I’m not exactly sure where this cake comes from, but it sure looks geeky… and delicious! To whoever this cake is addressed, a lot of efforts were put into making it, so I truly wish you guys unending joy and happiness!
Thanks Richard!
So you’ve finally fallen in love with the geek of your dreams. All those misty montages you dreamed of while searching for that special someone will finally come to being: both of you staying up at all hours playing WoW, sharing a bucket of popcorn during Ironman 2, both reaching for the same comics issue and giggling as your hands touch…
But wait. What’s that you say? It’s not as easy as all that? Conflict? Wait a second…
It’s true. Having fallen in love with and married another geek, I have to say just because we hold a great many hobbies in common doesn’t mean that we get along all the time. In fact, sometimes our geeky hobbies are the direct cause of our duress. After wrestling with my husband over the XBox last night, I thought I’d profile a few of the most common conflicts in a geek relationship and offer some advice as to how to steer through them.
1 – Console Conflict. For some reason this hasn’t happened in a while, but has caused a bit of strife in recent weeks in my household. I’m still working my way (again) through Dragon Age and have finally hit my stride, while my husband just purchased Red Dead Redemption (which I have every intention of playing as soon as I finish saving Fereldan from the Blight… and possibly purchasing some of the expansions). The only way to deal with this is to be mutually adult about the situation as much as possible. Once the kiddo is in bed it’s a matter of scheduling: we map our our time and allow equal play. That doesn’t mean we don’t occasionally sneak in extra minutes when we can, but I think both understanding the draw of a game we can be sympathetic to each other.
Did you know that the word “robot” was originally coined in 1920 after the czech word “robota”, which means “Compulsory Labor”? We’ve got a bunch of other interesting facts about our robotic friends right after the jump!
Facebook’s founder and chief has come as close as seems likely to happen to apologizing for inadequate privacy policies.
Writing in the Washington Post, Mark Zuckerberg said that the company had thought it best to offer users detailed controls over every aspect of user settings relating to data use and privacy, but that “We just missed the mark.”
That may seem a little arrogant, but read in context it appears the “just” in the comment is not so much “we only barely missed getting things right” but more “we simply didn’t get things right.”
Zuckerberg went on to promise much simpler privacy controls including “an easy way to turn off all third-party services.” He also vowed that Facebook will stick to the principles that “we do not share your personal information with people or services you don’t want” and that “we do not give advertisers access to your personal information.”
That may be true in the sense that technically it is users who give third-parties access to information, for example when clicking to accept the conditions of installing a third-party application. But it’s also clear that in many cases this “decision” is not an informed one and that people don’t fully understand exactly what information is shared.
The claim is also shaky at best when it comes to user privacy policies changing, particularly when defaults are changed so that data becomes more accessible to others without the user making an intentional choice for that to happen. While it’s clear that opt-out systems work better for Facebook’s bottom line than opt-in systems (every user who fails to change a default through apathy or ignorance is a more valuable customer to advertisers), it’s also clear that failing to make every piece of data as private as possible by default means that Zuckerberg is at best living up to the letter of his principles, but by no means the spirit.
Remember Big Dog, that amazing 4-legged robotic mule we posted about a while ago? Well Big Dog has a little brother folks, and this guy really knows how to handle bumpy terrain. I’ll let you check him out:
Now just imagine yourself trying to run away from that thing (for whatever reason) in a not so distant future, where little dog would be the size of a large dog and about 1000 times faster. Terrifying thought, isn’t it?
[Via Dvice]
All this to roll a die? That’s beside the point! I was particularly taken by the weird shapes of the found objects used in this Rube Goldberg contraption and how easily they could have underperformed.
[via NeatoGeek]
Hey Everyone!
Just a quick post to let you guys know about our new AWESOME t-shirts!
The first idea comes from the mind of Jöshua, who won one of the prizes in the “design a t-shirt” contest we held a few months ago. The shirt was inspired by Newton’s second law of motion (F = d/dt (mv)), and as you’ll soon see, is awesome on so many levels. Order here. (10% off with coupon code geeksaresexy)
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A few months ago we wrote about the rumors of Morgan Spurlock and Joss Whedon teaming up for a documentary about Comic Con. Well, looks like the project is moving full steam ahead – and others have signed on as well, like comics icon Stan Lee, Ain’t It Cool News’ Harry Knowles, and Legendary Pictures’ Thomas Tull.
But wait! There’s more! Yesterday we received the official casting info – I suppose someone thinks that someone in the [GAS] reader ranks might be destined for geeky stardom. Also apparently the name of the documentary is COMIC-CON EPISODE FOUR: A FAN’S HOPE. Details below the cut.