I’d think this would be a simple question to answer, but I haven’t found that to be the case. The question: If you buy an unlocked iPhone that works on both T-Mobile and AT&T, can you use it on your … Continue reading
Category Archives: Geekery
Is a spat between two tiny, nearly invisible constituencies: hard core gamergeeks, and hard core feminists. The vast majority aren’t even aware either group exists, and could not care less what they might disagree about. … Continue reading
I have no idea what #GamerGate is Frankly, neither do I. Should I care? … Continue reading
With Apple’s Novel Acquisition, A Chance To Reinvent The Book | TechCrunch That feedback loop is critical, because books face incredible competition from other media for our attention. It’s easy to spend the afternoon watching videos on YouTube or Netflix, … Continue reading
Growing up Geek: Timothy J. Seppala I was 7 years old the first time I read Jaws. I was in second grade, and like most boys that age, I was absurdly fascinated by sharks and dinosaurs. I still am. What … Continue reading
For most of you, this will be TL;DR, but for some of us, of a certain age and geekish inclination, it will cause a flood of memories to well up. Half an operating system: The triumph and tragedy of OS/2 … Continue reading
The Lumia 1520: enormous hardware, troublesome software | Ars Technica So here’s the thing about the Lumia 1520. It’s huge. Really, absurdly huge. I know it’s not the first super-sized smartphone, but it’s the first I’ve ever used in any … Continue reading
HappyAcres Wikipedia is primarily authored by single males. And though they didn’t ask, I’m pretty sure that the heavy skew would have been toward lefty single males. Did anybody mention the word “geeks,” by the way? … Continue reading
Google Glass Reborn as Something You’d Actually Want to Wear | Wired Business | Wired.com The company arrives at a critical juncture for wearable computers. Google Glass — the web giant’s computerized googles project — has sparked a cultural debate. … Continue reading
Move Over Google Glass — GlassUp Is A Less Creepy And Much Cheaper Pair Of AR Specs | TechCrunch All of which suggests there may be room for an eyeless Glass-style product that preserves privacy by being receive-only — and … Continue reading
I don’t know why, but I did. And I don’t even get all soppy over the kittehs. … Continue reading
July E-Postal Contest up at Billlls Place at Traction Control … Continue reading
Google Glass panic triggers rise in facial-recognition blockers | TechHive And the twitards who claim to hate the geeky look of Google Glass so much would wear something like this instead? … Continue reading
Ace of Spades HQ How did a geeky douche who could write the above without a hint of irony ever get access to our national security secrets? Far from offering any penetrating insight, the only thing that remarks like these … Continue reading
ViralRead » Who Is Edward Snowden? Background on NSA Leaker Emerges Other than the fact that he actually managed to maintain a sexual relationship with a beautiful woman, Snowden sounds like what you would find if you looked up “Classic … Continue reading
Yahoo buys Tumblr for $1.1billion: Founder David Karp is next tech tycoon | Mail Online Well, he looks like a normal enough guy, right? Huh. Where have I seen eyes like that before? Oh. Right. … Continue reading
Three days of Google I/O, as seen through Google Glass | PCWorld Through the looking Glass One of my favorite things about Google Glass is how easy it is to take photos: With just the press of a button you … Continue reading
I guess because it would be hard to get someone to take a job called “Ignorant Bastards Giving Customers The Runaround Until They Get Frustrated And Go Away.” Although, to be honest, I’d kind of like to have that job. … Continue reading
Would Microsoft really bring Office to Linux? | PCWorld Do you think Microsoft would bring Office to Linux? Please sound off in the comments. Permit me to ask the obvious question in response: Do you think Linux users, who tend … Continue reading
My Toshiba Ultrabook has been running slower and slower, and today it pretty much ground to a halt. Any and everything took forever to do. I thought I was back in 1995. I opened up Task Manager and took a … Continue reading
The Clue Meter: Geekery Raspberry Pi computer on the flatscreen. Aw. Cute. … Continue reading
Online activist Aaron Swartz commits suicide, relative says – CNN.com New York (CNN) — Aaron Swartz, the Internet political activist who co-wrote the initial specification for RSS, has committed suicide, a relative told CNN Saturday. He was 26. “Great minds … Continue reading
Nerd Dreams Calendar 2013 – The Local Nerds rule the tech world, so why on earth would anybody think they are weird? … Continue reading
So asks the Christian Science Monitor. In Star Trek lore, the first Starship Enterprise will be built by the year 2245. But today, an engineer has proposed — and outlined in meticulous detail – building a full-sized, ion-powered version of … Continue reading
The World Through Google’s Smartglasses | Popular Science As smartglasses become popular, the world will start to seem naked and inaccessible without a glossy data layer on everything. Everyday activities, maneuvering through the physical world, socializing, working, learning, will all … Continue reading
From Dave in my basement If you failed to understand the above, you are probably a normal human being and not an unregenerate geek who spends too much time in basements. This is sad for you. Yeah, probably. … Continue reading
It’s Time To Tone It Down: An Open Letter To Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, and Rick Santorum | Right Wing News With that in mind, this primary has been considerably dirtier and more vicious than it should have … Continue reading
Apple patents touchscreen unlock gestures A bit obvious and over broad. US patent number 7657549 1. A method of unlocking a hand-held electronic device, the device including a touch-sensitive display, the method comprising: detecting a contact with the touch-sensitive display … Continue reading
I dunno — this market don’t seem to know whether to shit or go blind, and I’ll be dipped in boar sputum if I kin figger it out. Mebbe Quick is right and it’ll hit us with a fake rebound … Continue reading
Turbine powered Batmobile Do I want one? Do you really have to ask? What? Oh, yeah. Debt ceiling deal. Gotta get excited about that. Nah. Face it; we’re well and truly boned. Screwed right to the wall. Have been, ever … Continue reading
Photos: Comic-Con’s Myriad Moments of Geekery | Underwire | Wired.com Apparently many more women showed up than usual this year. Dunno if that’s good or bad. … Continue reading
Make It So: Hands-On With Official Star Trek iPad App | Underwire | Wired.com You, like, have to have this, right? You may even go out and buy an iPad, just so you can have this app, right? Look into … Continue reading
Robotic tongue gizmo lets you french kiss over the Internet Designed for “communication in the mouth”, the invention consists of a motion-sensing recepticle that records your tongue’s movements. The saucy information is then transmited across the Internet to a corresponding … Continue reading
So I spent all day hammering it, rewriting .php code (I don’t know dick about .php), messing around with cascading style sheets, talking to operators at online fax customer service shacks, and finally – finally! – finished the web site … Continue reading