Mon, Oct 12th
2009
My geek moment for the day: Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories shows you how to Make A Cylon Jack-O-Lantern (via davereed)
Mementos of my wanders on the web
Kerri Brewster
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Canada
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Posts tagged "geek"
Tue, Oct 6th
2009
Anti-WiFi Paint contains WiFi Signal:
Here’s a novel way to keep your wireless network access to yourself, or to create your own little cell-phone dead zone - redecorate!
Fri, Jul 17th
2009
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
— Martin Golding (via amplequotes)
Fri, Jul 3rd
2009
Geek Moment: Balanced Ternary
~ Donald Knuth said “Perhaps the prettiest number system of all is balanced ternary”, and I agree wholeheartedly. It’s pretty, delightful, and just might express the Meaning of Life far better than the number 42. If you’re intrigued, take a look at the post at Daily Meh through which I discovered it.
Fri, Jun 26th
2009
The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, ‘people without lives.’ We don’t care. We have each other.
— Dave Barry (via amplequotes)
Sat, Jun 20th
2009
Nerd humour:
Humor-monger John Hodgman, the most dynamic public speaker of our generation, attempts to validate the claim that Obama is the first nerd president of the modern era by conducting an intensive nerd “purity test” at the 2009 Radio and TV Correspondents’ Dinner.(from thedailywhat, via 12minds)
Fri, May 29th
2009
Google Wave is looking extremely cool.
Wow. Google’s upcoming web-based communication/collaboration application is looking very promising. It combines standard email-type communication with real-time instant messaging in an innovative model that mimics — and I think improves on — real conversations. People who join a conversation mid-way through have the ability to replay what they missed (no more trying to rebuild an original email from multiple edited replies!). There’s an excellent video preview of the product from this week’s Google I/O conference, which gives you a good idea of how it could change the way you communicate electronically. (Don’t be put off by the 1h20m length of the video. It’s very interesting, understandable and entertaining — albeit perhaps in a geeky way — and you could always just watch bits of it.)
Thu, May 14th
2009
Wow. Just wow.
As pilnick says, “Wolfram Alpha is looking freaking amazing.” That’s a link to a screencast introducing the Wolfram Alpha project, a computational knowledge engine that launches this month. I admit to not watching the whole thing (it runs something like 13 minutes), but it is extremely impressive and promising. Yes, there’s a place on the internet for Facebook and Twitter and Lego animations and kaleidoscope toys, but Wolfram Alpha is what it’s really for.
Wed, May 13th
2009
No. You. Are. Not.
Perhaps the current crop of social networking celebrities and wannabes could think up their own label, instead of trying to misappropriate “geek” and restyle it into something cool and profitable, yet mostly vapid and ultimately not at all geeky. Marco Arment has a couple great posts here and here in response to this disturbing video and trend, pointing out:
Geek culture isn’t something that a Twitter celebrity suddenly enters because Twitter was written by programmers and runs on servers.
And Matt Langer sums it all up very nicely in a wonderfully simple visual. So come on, people, get your own label. If you’re really stumped, I’m sure some real geeks could come up with suggestions …
