Monthly Archives: March 2010

Food Geek: Bacon Flavored Envelopes

by Kevin
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Food Geek: Bacon Flavored Envelopes

You know what I had for lunch yesterday? It was a turkey sandwich on white bread with two slices of provolone and four slices of bacon. I eat a lot of bacon, and thanks to the blessings of genetics, I don’t have high blood pressure or any of the trappings of a bacon fiend. I have a difficult time eating breakfast without bacon – it’s the best way to start the day. And if I ate salads – which I don’t, that’s for leaf eaters – I’d use bacon bits. I was perusing Think Geek today to look for some cool items for the office, when I came upon these Read more »

Learning to Program

by Kevin
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Learning to Program

A few years back, I was working for my father at his software company, running the shipping department. It got boring over the slow season, so I started asking around about learning how to program. I had dabbled in programming when I was a kid, but now I was in my 20s and more geared towards writing than mathematics. Nonetheless, I decided to give it a shot and tried to learn Visual Basic. How’d it turn out? Well I’m a writer now, if that tells you anything. But that doesn’t mean that my interest in programming has stopped. In fact, I’m thinking about getting back into it, so I figured I’d Read more »

OV'L: Wall clock tells time with circles and dashes

by andy
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OV'L: Wall clock tells time with circles and dashes

Regular readers will know what a fan I am of alternative clocks and watches. Any way of spicing up the chore of time-telling has to be a good thing. I didn’t come up with this idea when I created five concept watch designs, but I wish I had. Called OV’L, this wall clock displays both the date and time on a series of concentric circles. The inner four circles display year, month, day and weekday, while the outer circles display hours, minutes and seconds. I’m not entirely clear whether this clock really exists or not. Designer Stefan Vasilev is into graphic and logo design, so this could just be a Read more »

Firefly keeps on flyin'

by Robin Parrish
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Firefly keeps on flyin'

Perhaps no other short-lived TV show in history has received as much ongoing fan enthusiasm as Joss Whedon’s scifi western Firefly. Fox famously canceled the show after airing about a dozen eps, but strong sales on DVD led to the theatrical film Serenity, which tied up loose ends from the show while trying to garner more fans so that the story could go on. Although Serenity qualified as a modest financial success, it was hardly a blockbuster hit, and never gained a strong enough foothold to justify more big-screen adventures. I guess that means that the story of Mal Reynolds and his motley crew has been canceled twice now, in two different mediums. Read more »

Three iPhones, One Girl: Irreplaceable

by andy
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Using multiple iPhones to create music isn’t new, but this video demonstrates one of the easier-on-the-eye/ear versions. Forget the possibility that a Beyonce track may not count as geek music (far too mainstream, right?) or that you don’t have to be an uber-geek in order to set this up… …kudos to this girl for (a) having or obtaining three iPhones and (b) setting up apps to produce a pretty seamless performance. Oh, and (c) for having a very nice voice. Read more »

Alien Vs Pooh

by Kevin
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Alien Vs Pooh

One of my staples growing up was Winnie the Pooh. I remember my mother reading me stories about Christopher Robin and his buddy Pooh, and their adventures. It was a theme throughout most of my youth, really, with pooh-themed items running in the house for me, then for my sister. We loved that little guy. So when I first heard about Aliens Vs Pooh, I was of course, intrigued. It was created by Giant Hamburger, and is a fascinating tale of a honey-obsessed stuffed animal and what happens to him when he discovers a field of alien eggs in the woods, and one of them spawns and latches onto his face. Read more »

Danny Choo Anime

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Danny Choo Anime

After years of networking, it seems like Danny Choo will finally get something he has been talking about for a while now, his own anime. Danny is probably the most popular self-proclaimed otaku on the internet, but most people know him better as the Tokyo Dance Trooper. Looking back now, it was really stunts like these that brought Danny to fame and fortune, not his love of anime or collection of dolls and figures. So now, 2.5 years later, what kind of anime can we look forward to from the famed stormtrooper? Well, according to Danny, he has already set up his own anime production company called Mirai Fusion, and Read more »

Open Books Quicker With Lightsaber Bookends

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Open Books Quicker With Lightsaber Bookends

Say what you will about Episodes I-III of the Star Wars series, one thing they did very well was the lightsabers. Right off the bat they were slicing through doors, turning robots into victims of a laser-formed ginsu knife, and let’s not even get started about Darth Maul’s double-sided piece of awesome. It was one of the neat things about those films. So what better way to keep all of that Star Trek fan fiction you’ve been writing in one place than with a pair of lightsaber bookends? That’s right, you too can have it appear like your books are the victim of a Sith lord’s lightsaber, all for just Read more »

10 ways to win an iPad

by Robin Parrish
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10 ways to win an iPad

Look at that thing. It’s shiny. It’s sleek. It’s calling to you… The problem? You don’t got the coin. Well, it turns out that several of those “hundreds of thousands of iPad pre-orders” we’ve been hearing about were bought for contest/giveaway purposes. Websites and magazines are giving away free iPads to the cash-deprived, and in most cases, all you have to do to enter is join their fan page on Facebook or re-Tweet a line of text. Here are ten of the best Facebook/Twitter-based iPad giveaways I’ve found. (See the individual websites for full contest rules and details.) Digg is giving away 14 iPads — one every day for 2 Read more »

Mario Bros. La Pietà sculpture

by Darice de Cuba
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Mario Bros. La Pietà sculpture

During the Renaissance, year 1499 to be exact, Michelangelo made a sculpture of Jesus lifeless body on the lap of his mother Mary after the Crucifixion. Michelangelo was 23 years old at that time. This masterpiece can be viewed in St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City. The sculpture was named La Pietà, which means “pity”. Five-hundred and eleven years later Polish artist Kordian Lewandowski takes inspiration from La Pietà and merges Renaissance art with the modern day video game culture. Kordian’s sculpture portrays Princess Peach holding a dying Mario. He aptly named his masterpiece “Game Over”. This sculpture was carved out of a polystyrene foam block and sculpted up Read more »