Geekery Archives
November 14, 2007
■ “You awaken in a large complex, slightly disoriented. Glowing dots hover mouth level near you in every direction. Off in the distance you hear the faint howling of what you can only imagine must be some sort of ghost or several ghosts.” [#]
November 13, 2007
■ “Oink didn’t offer solutions; it highlighted the problems of over-priced, over-controlled music elsewhere.” [#]
October 10, 2007
■ “an electronic ring that shows the number of Google hits when searching for the name of the person who wears it.” [#]
September 18, 2007
■ “For example, I might say, ‘Let’s draw a seahorse, then add it in again 20,000 times.’ Believe me, I don’t want to be the guy that’s sitting there copying and pasting a seahorse 20,000 times.” [#]
August 31, 2007
■ “Every e-mail I send to anyone, regardless of subject or recipient, will be five sentences or less.” [#]
August 29, 2007
■ “The brainchild of a Dutch freelance journalist, reportwitter.com aims to “unpack” the process of constructing and creating a story by providing a platform for members to display recent articles alongside “tweets” - short, pithy, public messages of 140 characters or less - that are the lifeblood of the Twitter community.” [#]
August 24, 2007
■ Everything I Know About Diversity, I Learned from Superhero Comics [#]
August 19, 2007
■ Philip K. Dick: How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later [#]
August 15, 2007
■ “After two years of documenting scenes of my life with my phone, here are some lessons I’ve learned for .” [#]
August 12, 2007
■ “His “self-replicating automata,” engraved with his signature alias “Arctic Pole,” dealt brutally with the delicate workings of one hundred and fifty machines in the cotton mills which are the pride of our city, stripping them for parts and building more of themselves.” [#]
August 6, 2007
■ “Japanese scientists are to explore the centre of the Earth. Using a giant drill ship launched next month, the researchers aim to be the first to punch a hole through the rocky crust that covers our planet and to reach the mantle below.” [#]
July 26, 2007
■ Burning Man Protest Protested by Burning Man Protesters: “What’s really strange is that during the protest, other Burning Man participants came out of the Burning Man office to protest the protesters.” [#]
June 12, 2007
■ “ This page is about creating fantasy worlds. In particular, it is about creating such worlds as part of the process of writing fiction.” [#]
June 4, 2007
■ “Believe it or not, of all the countless ways to approximate the most prolific irrational number in the universe, there are none quite as interesting or as surprisingly satisfying as throwing perfectly good food around your kitchen.” [#]
May 29, 2007
■ Buffy teaches us how to write a cliffhanger [#]
April 10, 2007
■ How to build a sword-wielding, tennis-playing, WiiMote-controlled, friendly robot [#]
April 5, 2007
■ “This new Toyota I bought, it has Web 2.0 installed in it! Look, when I get a call from grandma on my Bluetooth enabled cell phone, THE CAR BATTERY AND BRAKES DIE. THAT IS Web 2.0.” [#]
■ “We all know Boo Berry as the lovable spokesghost for General Mills’ Boo Berry cereal. But since he is a ghost, I can’t help but think about the fact that he’s dead. Or more specifically, he is the ghost of a dead man.” [#]
April 3, 2007
■ “Here it is… the largest creative project I’ve ever worked on, period. A 101-gesture version of Rock-Paper-Scissors.” [#]
April 2, 2007
■ The Inbox Of Nardo Pace, The Empire’s Worst Engineer [#]
March 30, 2007
■ “Swim across the Atlantic Ocean. 3462 mi.” [#]
March 12, 2007
■ “OTHERKIN—A soul or body of non-Human origins…Otherkin…are people who have had past lives as non-Humans. And for most, it has affected them enough for them to now consider their soul, their essence, other than human. “Other than Human”, of course, can have many different meanings, and it is because of this that the Otherkin community is so diverse…given that reincarnation knows no bounds of distance or space, it is reasonable to assume that many humans are of less than pure pedigree, so to speak.” [#]
March 11, 2007
■ “Consul General of Japan , Mr. Hiroshi Yamaguchi, as a token of his own appreciation, wishes to serenade some anime theme pieces performable with his violin, upon the request from any planner of events to be held for anime fans in the state of Florida , on the following conditions … “ [#]
March 5, 2007
■ “I suppose what I can learn from this lesson is a well known point. Nothing drives traffic like controversy. Whether or not you’re blogging anything remotely accurate, the mere whiff of a fight sends all the children running across the playground to view the spectacle.” [#]
February 28, 2007
■ “The weather affects most everyone’s life, and the Internet can provide information on just about any location at any hour of the day or night. But how accurate is this information? How much can we trust it?” [#]
January 2, 2007
■ “Most people know that Batman lives in Gotham City, and that this fictional place is a barely disguised version of New York City - so much so that in real life, NYC is sometimes nicknamed Gotham. Here’s a few lesser known facts about Batman’s home town … ” [#]
■ On This Day Pre-Y2K: “This section of kshay.com offers a real-world glimpse into what people concerned about the Y2K bug were actually saying on the Internet.” Dang, I remember writing these sorts of story. Even then, though, I was pretty much on the skeptical side … [#]