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The Internet is changing the landscape of our Global language
http://mostlylisa.com/ 2008/ 10/ the-internet-is-changing-the-landscape-of-our-g…Published in The Province. At some point during the last 10 years of this computer age, spelling and grammatical accuracy got tossed, phrases got shortened to two-finger tappables like “CU l8r”, and a whole new lexicon of ever-expanding nerd words like “w00t”, “l337″, “n00b” moved from underground Internet forums to mainstream media and your e-mail inbox.
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Geek Treat: Motherboard Cake Has 3 GB Of Icing
http://www.poptherapy.com/ 2008/ 10/ geek-treat-motherboard-cake-has-3-gb-of-ici…Check out this motherboard cake. It’s the kind of thing you make a geek for his birthday. Not that anyone ever makes me a damn cake for my birthday, which is maybe because my birthday consists of a case of rum and updating this site, while a monkey jumps around the room masturbating and flinging poo at me.
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Monday Morning Link Fest: Getting Down to Business
http://www.miss604.com/ 2008/ 10/ monday-morning-link-fest-getting-down-to-busin…http://www.miss604.com/2008/10/monday-morning-link-fest-getting-down-to-business.html. Mondays and Tuesdays are my big writing days where I prepare my contributions for E!Online as well as HockeyStars. A big part of my new ventures into the realm of self-employment is freelance blog writing.
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Illuminate Your Keys With The Dark Side of the Force With a Light Saber LED Mini-Flashlight
http://www.uberreview.com/ 2008/ 10/ illuminate-your-keys-with-the-dark-side-of-…One might successfully argue that this is either the coolest or dorkiest LED mini-flashlight ever made, depending on who they are around. It is modeled on Darth Vader’s light saber and appropriately uses a red LED. It might not provide you with a great deal of light, but ought to show you where you need to stick your key.
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Money and Meteorites
http://clubtroppo.com.au/ 2008/ 10/ 06/ money-and-meteorites/Like a lot of modern libertarian types, my first in-depth exposure to economics came from the minority ‘Austrian School’ of economics. The Austrian school shares a lot in common with Chicagoan economics, but it parts ways with Chicago — and indeed most other economic schools — on the question of money supply.
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Geek Clocks - Tokyobays Robot Alarm Clocks
http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/ ?p=5166If you like robots, then you will love this new range of robot alarm clocks from TOKYObay. Tokibot is a tech genius and comes to serve you with the correct time. He’s known for his positive attitude and his love for platform shoes. These fun robot alarm clocks come in a choice of 3 colours, red blue and green, and a variety of different styles.
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The Most Spooktacular… Ever?
http://amysmusings.com/ 2008/ 10/ 06/ the-most-spooktacular-ever/Do you know what can sometimes stink about decorating for Halloween or Christmas outside? You can’t really see how awesome everything actually looks until it gets dark and that sucks because I have very little patience and by the time I nearly kill myself (or my children) hanging from ladders and
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Video: Mod makes Microsoft Surface pressure sensitive!
http://blog.gadgetlite.com/ 2008/ 10/ 06/ video-mod-microsoft-surface-pressure/Here’s a little something to look forward to, a hack for Microsoft’s Surface PC in conjunction with Nintendo’s Wii Balance Board. This clever concept by Josh Santangelo was done using a physics engine he developed for MS Silverlight. In the demo video featured below, he rocks the hacked Surface from side to side while colored spots roll back and forth.
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A geeky milestone
http://clubtroppo.com.au/ 2008/ 10/ 06/ a-geeky-milestone/Linux, the operating system that continues to reshape the computing world, is 17 today. It started modestly enough: Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers? Are you without a nice project and just dying to cut your teeth on a OS you can try to modify for your needs?
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Geeky food to lighten up your weekend
http://www.slashfood.com/ 2008/ 10/ 05/ geeky-food-to-lighten-up-your-weekend/Filed under: Food Oddities, On the Blogs Among the many food blogs I keep up with, there are a couple of geek-oriented and pop culture blogs I also check regularly. One of my favorites is Geekstir, a blog dedicated to all things sci-if/geek/video games.
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