Monthly Archives: April 2010

Get Your LEGO Bricks, USB and Your Laptop Now. Why? To Solve That 5×5 Rubik's Cube!

by Franky Branckaute
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Get Your LEGO Bricks, USB and Your Laptop Now. Why? To Solve That 5×5 Rubik's Cube!

The life of a geek sometimes is really simple, isn’t it? Take some popular geek meta: laptops, USB, LEGO and Rubik’s. Now throw them all together and make one thing out of this. Rubik’s you said? Which one? 2×2? 3×3? I guess most of you still struggle with that 3×3, right? Let’s speak business then today: what about a 4×4 Cube or a 5×5 even? Sweating? Woser! Trust me, they really aren’t that hard to solve. All you need are some LEGO skills. And some programming skills. Now I have to warn you: LEGO Technics. Of course that excludes all Mac Nerds who preferred to go with the Fisher-Price of Read more »

WoWeekly: Cataclysm Raid Progression Changes

by Lia
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WoWeekly: Cataclysm Raid Progression Changes

News about the changes in the raiding system came out last Monday and a lot of my guild mates started shouting, “The sky is falling!” causing a bit of uncertainty in our guild come Cataclysm. In a nutshell, Blizzard is planning to implement the following changes to the raid system when the expansion comes along: Read more »

Zombies and the Empire. Get Your Imperial Star Wars Undead T-Shirt!

by Franky Branckaute
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Zombies and the Empire. Get Your Imperial Star Wars Undead T-Shirt!

This is the best T-shirt you’ll see all day long and we already had some really ace tees here at ForeverGeek but this one beats’em all. At least for today. Remember the main rule: Zombie shirts rule’em all!. This time though, things get better than 51Undead. Read more »

Car guts

by Robin Parrish
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Car guts

My 2-year-old son is obsessed with the movie Cars. Obsessed, I tell you! While surfing the net for pictures of Lightning McQueen, I stumbled across this little oddity. An illustrator named Jake Parker wondered how the insides of one of Pixar’s cars might work, considering that these vehicles are “strange machine/flesh hybrids,” in Parker’s own words. So to satisfy his own curiosity, he drew up this cross-section of Lightning McQueen, imagining what the “internal structures” might look like that would make a machine/flesh living car work. The result is both unflinchingly gross and strangely cool. I won’t be showing it to my little boy, though. Read more »

The Costco Prank

by Robin Parrish
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The Costco Prank

Would-be pranksters: get out a pad and pen. You’re going to want to take notes. Rob Cockerham, prankster extraordinaire, recently noticed something that (surprisingly) no one else ever has: the price tags Costco uses on its shelves are just basic text in a common font, on plain white paper. Hence, they’d be remarkably easy for anyone to create. So Cockerham (it’s fun to say — try it) created his own Costco price tag template and plugged in as many wacky product names and prices as he could think of. He laminated the tags and stuck magnetic strips on the back. That’s all there was to it, though he sent out Read more »

Immortalize Your Old Floppy Disks

by Noemi Twigg
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Immortalize Your Old Floppy Disks

Earlier this week, Robin wrote a great eulogy for the good old floppy disk. I’d bet my bottom dollar that you have a stack of unused ones somewhere in your house. I am pretty sure that if I pay my parents a visit, I will find a heap of them covered in dust. Those disks are wrapped in so many memories that I just couldn’t find it in myself to throw them away! If you’re anything like me, you might want to find ways to make use of these practically useless disks. The first thing that came to mind: coasters. I have this thing for coasters. I like to buy Read more »

The MMO where everyone can add anything

by Jayvee Fernandez
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The MMO where everyone can add anything

Hard to picture it in your head? It was the same for me. Here’s a screenshot. Everybody Edits. No that’s not a statement. It’s the title of the game. Created by user Benjaminsen (via Reddit), the game is a 2D platformer where you bounce around as a smiley and add blocks, arrows and other things to help you navigate your way around the sandbox. There seems to be no clear objective except to sit back and enjoy the crowd-sourced building blocks of utter chaos. Or so it seems. As you navigate around the sandbox you will notice strokes of genius in the form of contraptions, mazes and pathways built by Read more »

Keep track of Facebooks "Like Button"

by Darice de Cuba
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Keep track of Facebooks "Like Button"

Since Facebook announced their new feature, the “Like” button a week ago it has already taken over the web. Even here at Forever Geek we are sporting a “Like” button. In my daily website browsing I see more “Like” button then not. And while Facebook introduced about a billion “Like” button according to their own sayings the Facebook Wall is still one big stream of data. There is no way to organize all incoming feeds on your Wall into categories to keep a clear summary of everything. This is where the “Like Button” website comes in handy. Developed by Facebook but under another domain. You get an overview of all Read more »