geekery

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• Shift That Spectrum!

  
  The Poor Farm — Authority: 422
  H/T Funnyjunk.com [IMG: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__vjcuVchhnA/SxHo1hLiURI/AAAAAAAAB4g/JDseqDrJ4zk/s400/physics0.jpg]
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• iPhone sync on PC fails: Solution!

  
  Lee.org — Authority: 132
  I went away for Thanksgiving. When I came back, my iPhone wouldn’t complete a sync with iTunes. This is what would happen: plug USB cable from iPhone to PC sync starts iTunes says “backing up iPhone… syncing iPhone” and then iTunes would stop. The iPhone disappeared from the Device List on iTunes. The ...
  23 hours ago

• Are Premium Gaming Peripherals Worth Your Money?

  
  Gears and Widgets :: A Heaping Helping of Tech — Authority: 414
  If you’ve been to an electronics store in recent years, you know that there are tons of gaming peripherals that are up there in the high hundreds of dollars when it comes to price tags – the Logitech G19 gaming keyboard shown above runs a smooth $200 US retail, and the Razr Megalodon gaming headset can run you ...
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• PC Mag’s 2009 Favorite Blogs!

  
  Gears and Widgets :: A Heaping Helping of Tech — Authority: 414
  Another year has come, and it’s about time for PC Mag to assemble their list of their 50 favorite blogs, all nominated by PC Mag staff and writers – people like myself! Don’t get me wrong: there are plenty of annual blog awards that tally up public votes, where the bloggers resort to begging their readers for ...
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• Time Lords love computers from the 80s? Hmm.

  
  Lousy Canuck — Authority: 138
  Hat tip to Gamma Squad .
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• That’s a Big Tsunami

  
  The Sundries Shack — Authority: 604
  You think we have tsunami problems? Imagine a wave of superheated plasma and magnetic energy over 7 1/2 times taller than Earth* rushing toward you at 560,000 miles per hour.That’s what the twin STEREO satellites spotted when it got the first very good image of something called a a magnetohydrodynamical wave (also ...
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• Once more..

  
  Scatter Cushions — Authority: 427
  I was tempted to wait until the fifth anniversary of this early post on my weblog, but time is, I think, of the essence. Redundancy threatens again and so:Anyone want an exceedingly young looking 58 year old with 19 years of C++ experience, several years Python, lots of CAD ability, numerical analysis skills... cv has ...
  2 days ago

• Here is a fun listicle ...

  
  bjkeefe — Authority: 143
  ... with no tiresome multipage layout, to boot: " Top 30 Failed Technology Predictions ." Whats nice is that most of them concerned what we wouldnt be able to do. (In fairness, "Dude, wheres my flying car?" did not make the list.} (h/t: @kriswager )
  2 days ago

• Black Friday’s Geekery Weakness

  
  Overly Positive — Authority: 499
  Today marks the first day of the holiday shopping season, and Black Friday, long since known to be a day when you can get the best deals on deeply discounted material, has been one of its biggest contributors. Early shopping, the mad rush to get things normally tens if not hundreds of dollars cheaper, and hopefully ...
  2 days ago

• Scribblenauts knows all

  
  Lousy Canuck — Authority: 138
  The Nintendo DS sandbox game knows just about everything on the planet… even internet memes.
  2 days ago

• Retreat! - er ReTweet, That Is

  
  The Poor Farm — Authority: 422
  I use TweetDeck to keep up with my Twitter feeds - and it also has a Facebook feed option I use. So, its kinda rare that I go to my home page on Twitter on my browser. Today, just cause I was bored, I checked out to see if a follower Id reported for spam was still active (they were not), and clicked on the link to ...
  2 days ago

• Positive Thankfulness

  
  Overly Positive — Authority: 499
  Ah yes, Thanksgiving – that American holiday where the Butterball Turkey hotline is jammed up for hours, food coma is a given, and people start gearing up for Black Friday (post on that coming early in the morn, tomorrow) and the inevitable march towards the holiday season. Whether you’re a geek or not, ...
  3 days ago

• Three Hares Project

  
  Sarx — Authority: 134
  RINITARIAN Rabbits : who knew? The Three Hares Project is researching and documenting an ancient symbol of three hares or rabbits running in a circle and joined by their ears which form a triangle at the centre of the design. The symbol is a puzzle for each creature appears to have two ears yet, between them, they ...
  3 days ago

• Super Street Fighter IV - New Contender Trailer

  
  *The Essentials Of Cool* — Authority: 123
  
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• I Did Not Know That

  
  The Adventures of Roberta X — Authority: 586
  The grease zerk is named for.... Oscar U. Zerk ! So its a good thing he invented them. Held at least 299 other patents and lived well as a result of his inventiveness. And thats something Im thankful for. To live in a time when good ideas are rewarded and widely used, thats a wonder we take for granted. ...
  3 days ago

• MS Outlook 2010 Beta: Bloggers don’t need IMAP

  
  Life Onwards — Authority: 124
  MS Outlook 2010 Beta automatically configures email accounts as IMAP.  Doing so results in too much drag/lag due to folders being synchronized.  Rather than accept this, I tried setting my accounts to POP3.Can’t do it in the account settings in 2010, they’re greyed out once set up.After deleting one IMAP account ...
  3 days ago

• It’s not the fall that gets you…

  
  Blunt Object — Authority: 119
  …it’s the sudden stop at the end. (I did surely try to keep my wharrgarbl out of this post, and I almost succeeded.  Please proceed with caution.) Megan McArdle comments on ( Michael O’Hare’s comments on ) the budget cuts to the University of California system: When the public coffers run dry People ...
  3 days ago

• Day Before Turkey

  
  The Adventures of Roberta X — Authority: 586
  Were all sitting on the long benches that run fore and aft, bent over by the weight and arrangement of our gear, shivering, anticipating the drop. Towards the forward bulkhead, theres a flare of light as the drop leader pops the hatch. All along the overhead, indicator lights blink from blue to amber as she waves a ...
  4 days ago

• Quote of the Day: Obama v. Robots

  
  Blogadilla.com: The Tijuana of the Internet — Authority: 471
  “ As president, I believe that robotics can inspire young people to pursue science and engineering. And I also want to keep an eye on those robots in case they try anything. ” – President Barack Obama (via Kris ; via Gizmodo ) Share this:
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• Amazon Kindle Firmware 2.3 out now!

  
  Mathew Packer — Authority: 125
  J ust a few minutes ago my Amazon Kindle went into update mode, and what do you know…….I got the new firmware update with Adobe PDF support! Now the Kindle is even more useful than before because I can put all my photography, web design, and blogging related ebooks on my Kindle without having to muck ...
  4 days ago

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