Offbeat posts

Yeah, we landed on the moon forty years ago. Yes, Bruce Willis and his daredevil team of drillers placed a nuclear missile at the center of an asteroid headed towards earth. But space still holds some mystery and romance for us, particularly the geeks. Space is still a long way from being a casual destination, with only 518 people having visited space in all of mankind’s history. So it’s remarkable and exciting to this day when a regular guy is able to reach out and touch space, almost literally. Luke Geissbuhler attached an HD video to a weather balloon and sent it into the air with the hopes that it would…

Can’t decide what to wear for Halloween this year? Yeah, me neither, and if you’re anything like me, it’s probably because you need something that will also accommodate your phone. Hey, I’m not letting my phone any nearer to my sweaty bod than it needs to be. But, luckily for you, if you plan on being creatively vacant enough to go as Batman this year, has Universal Designs got one hell of a utility belt for you. Featuring a whole lot of places for your crap, the belt has one especially-interesting feature – a pouch that is downright suspiciously iPhone-sized. I suppose any phone will do, though. Besides,…

A couple days ago, a photo began circulating ’round and about the sphere of Google’s Chrome OS running on an iPad. A picture is worth a thousand words, not the least of which are ones like ‘untruth’, ‘falsehood’, and ‘Photoshoppery’. That last one may be fictional, but google is a verb now, so whatever. In any case, the man behind the photo has leaked more proof of his achievement by posting an unbelievably brief video clip of the device in action, which may or may not provide his tale with more credibility – although, like the photo, this could be just as fake. As the YouTube comments suggest, this could…

Do you know how many hits a bajillion is? A whole crap ton of hits, that’s how many. Social media strat guru-ninja-genius and bajillionaire techspert Alex Blagg wants to sit down with you for a strat chat, and step your game up – and by ‘sit down’, I mean ‘take it to the limit’, and by ‘game’ I mean ‘social media presence’. And by ‘social media presence’, I actually mean ‘awesome’. Step your awesome up. Just watch the damn video, and check out Blagg’s website….

Porn is really easy to get, isn’t it? Porn has always been the internet’s biggest business, but most of us would-be consumers are generally asking ‘what business’? Porn is perfectly easy to get for free. That’s just what porn producers are worried about, and they’re rallying to change it. Studio Pink Visual has rallied adult content providers the world over to Arizona for a ‘Content Protection Retreat’ in October, to figure out a plan. “People were willing back then [at the advent of filesharing services] to pay top dollar for porn,” says PV’s president Allison Vivas. “Now it looks like the majority…

Turns out Big Steve isn’t the ninja we all thought he was. After being pulled aside and searched at Kansai International Airport in Japan, throwing stars were allegedly found in his luggage, and were promptly confiscated by security. Enraged, Jobs reportedly stated he’d never visit Japan again. But he wasn’t pissed for any old reason. Security had just unwittingly blown the lid off Steve’s latest revolutionary game-changing device: The iPod ninja. “iPod ninja fits into that sweet spot between the iPod touch and a small handgun,” Apple spokesperson Ted Wetmore tells Scoopertino. “It…

Tell you what: I’m just gonna leave this here, and you can totally just talk amongst yourselves. Or buy it. I just know there’s a joke that could be made about, like, pizza, and the Delta Quadrant, or something, but I can’t find it. Do me a solid and throw out some Star Trek/pizza puns, will ya?…

Google’s currently working on an underground path for the previously-aerial fiber connected to its data center in the Dalles, Oregon. But why? What could possibly necessitate an expensive move underground? Birds? Weather? According to Google, it’s hunters. In a conference in Australia last week, Google’s network engineering manager Vijay Gill let fly with the reasonably bizarre tidbit. “Every November when hunting season starts,” explained Gill, “invariably we know that the fiber will be shot down, so much so that we are now building an underground path.” So dudes with guns are actually…

Kinda weird timing on this one, but some nerdy genius has come up with the Boba Fett backpack. Light on details save for the fact that it’s going to set you back fifty bucks, you’ve seen all you really need to see – it’s a backpack. That looks like Boba Fett’s rocket pack. This one’s right up there with Lightsaber chopsticks, but if you’re planning to buy this for your kid, alarm bells may be ringing that you’re raising a nerd of your own. The backpack is available at ThinkGeek now. Just don’t forget the helmet too….

It can be a lonely life for creepy guys. Who do you have to talk to when you’re stuck up in a tree looking at some girl through binoculars? No one! Who’s going to bail you out when you get caught rifling through your ex-girlfriend’s garbage? No one! Well creepy dudes, your salvation is here. The Wii LovePress is a Wii game that could be the salvation of creepy guys who want to ditch the binoculars and just stay in for the night. The “game” uses the Wii Balance Board to allow “gamers” to massage a virtual girl in the “game”. Characters even respond with phrases such as “No, I believe you are gentle…” or “Stop!…