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The Rise of the Geek Lobby

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:26:56 +0000

In a time of legislative gridlock, the Stop Online Piracy Act looked like a rare bipartisan breakthrough. The bill, known as SOPA, promised a brave new Internet—one cleansed of “rogue websites” that hawk pirated songs and movies as well as counterfeit goods. For Congress, the legislation’s goals...

Tags: #geek #lobby #politics #sopa

Emoticons and Smileys on PLATO in the 1970s

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:36:45 +0000

"How were these things done? Well, on PLATO, you could press SHIFT-space to move your cursor back one space -- and then if you typed another character, it would appear on top of the existing character. And if you wanted to get real fancy, you could use the MICRO and SUB and SUPER keys on a PLATO keyboard to move up and down one pixel or more -- in effect providing a HUGE array of possible emoticon characters. So if you typed "W" then SHIFT-space then "O" then SHIFT-space then "B", "T", "A", "X", all with SHIFT-spaces in between, all those characters would plot on top of each other, and the result would be the smiley as shown above in the "WOBTAX" example. "

Tags: #computer #design #emoticons #geek #history #nostalgia #plato

Gold d20 Online Dating Package - Geek's Dream Girl | DriveThruRPG.com

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:50:56 +0000

"My name is E. Foley and I'm a d20-rolling geek girl. I've been involved in the online dating industry, first as a client and then as a professional, for a little over a decade. I've been there, done that, gotten the t-shirt. So when I started my business in 2008, my goal was to use my online dating experience and my Creative Writing major to help my fellow geeks create amazing dating profiles that show off their finer qualities. Got questions before you buy? Click for more About Me, About Our Services, our FAQ, and our totally free Geek's Guide to Online Dating."

Tags: #d20 #dating #geek #rpg

100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About | GeekDad | Wired.com

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:17:07 +0000

"There are some things in this world that will never be forgotten, this week’s 40th anniversary of the moon landing for one. But Moore’s Law and our ever-increasing quest for simpler, smaller, faster and better widgets and thingamabobs will always ensure that some of the technology we grew up with will not be passed down the line to the next generation of geeks."

Tags: #culture #geek #generations #genx #history #parenting #technology

Sliders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fri, 29 May 2009 00:03:57 +0000

What scifi show hasn't FOX screwed with? "The FOX Network aired the episodes in a different order to best capitalize on potential ratings-winning episodes, thus causing some continuity errors. For instance, the timer is first set to count down not in the pilot episode, but in "Summer of Love" — since FOX aired "Fever" after the pilot episode, though, many viewers were left confused as to why the Sliders suddenly had to leave within a very specific period of time. Similarly, the cliffhanger at the end of "Summer of Love" leads directly into the opening of "Prince of Wails" — which FOX had actually aired a week earlier"

Tags: #fox #geek #scifi #sliders #wikipedia

Rules for Time Travelers | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine

Fri, 22 May 2009 15:37:28 +0000

"0. There are no paradoxes.1. Traveling into the future is easy.2. Traveling into the past is hard — but maybe not impossible.3. Traveling through time is like traveling through space.4. Things that travel together, age together.5. Black holes are not time machines.6. If something happened, it happened.7. There is no meta-time.8. You can’t travel back to before the time machine was built.9. Unless you go to a parallel universe.10. And even then, your old universe is still there."

Tags: #geek #science #timetravel

The diskette that blew Trixter’s mind « Oldskooler Ramblings

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:11:46 +0000

"The manual for Mental Blocks claims that, for both C64 and IBM, you put the diskette in label-side up. I thought that had to be a typo, since every single mixed C64/IBM or Apple/IBM diskette I have ever seen is a “flippy” disk where one side is IBM and the other side is C64 or Apple — until I looked at the FAT12 for the disk and saw that tons of sectors in an interleaved pattern were marked as BAD — very strange usage."

Tags: #badsectors #c64 #commodore #disks #filesystems #gaming #geek #hacks #ibm #pc #retro #vintage

TypeRacer

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:42:38 +0000

multi-player typing racing game.

Tags: #gaming #geek #nerd #racing #typing

Chop Shop / Tee Shirts / Mens / weRobot for Men (with Glow)

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:28:01 +0000

"PRE-ORDER new GLOW-IN-THE-DARK variant! The next round of prints will be available on both American Apparel and Alstyle stock AND now all the robot eyes glow-in-the-dark (new pre-order stock only!). 51 celebrity robots pulled from popular culture references from literature, film, tv, cartoon, children’s literature, video games and even rock music."

Tags: #clothing #geek #retro #robots #tshirts #want #wishlist

An Amazing Mind: The REAL reason we use Linux

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:36:05 +0000

"Let me say that again. It's fun to use the command line."

Tags: #geek #linux #nerd #opensource #oss

YouTube - Lego Millenium Falcon Stop Motion

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:01:00 +0000

"Animated lego pieces putting together the Millenium Falcon."

Tags: #cool #geek #lego #nifty #nuts #starwars #via:codepo8 #video #youtube

Atari Founder Adapts Chuck 'E' Cheese For Hotties

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:19:37 +0000

"LOS ANGELES, Dec 22 (Reuters Life!) - Lovelorn video gamers who are better with consoles than conversation, have a new venue—a restaurant where each table has touchscreens for ordering food and for playing a variety of social games."

Tags: #atari #gaming #geek #nerd #restaurants

Rick Dakan - GEEK MAFIA -A novel of comics, games, and crime

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:52:19 +0000

"Fired from a job he hated at a company he loved, videogame designer Paul Reynolds is drowning his sorrows in late-morning margaritas when he meets an alluring, pink-haired conwoman named Chloe..."

Tags: #books #fiction #geek #novels

ThinkGeek :: T-Qualizer Shirt

Sat, 28 Oct 2006 21:11:25 +0000

"Party like it's 2999 with the glowing display on the T-Qualizer that dynamically changes with any ambient sound or music."

Tags: #aound #audio #clothes #clothing #geek #nifty #wishlist

Memo to the Public Relations Department. In the Pipeline:

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:08:30 +0000

"if one of us ever does manage to change the world, it'll start with a puzzled glance at a computer screen, or a raised eyebrow while looking at a piece of paper. Instead of getting noisier, everything will get a lot quieter."

Tags: #funny #geek #journalism #photography #science