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The Walls of Professor Ernest Albright: "Fiat Lux"

The Walls of Professor Ernest Albright: "Fiat Lux"

Every now and then you come across a piece of art (in this case, a very elaborate drawing) that makes you explore it, stare, and contemplate for several minutes (an eternity in Internet time). This is one of those pieces. It is apparently blown up from an old Canadian publication and is, as QuieroBits puts it in Spanish, an “Incredible Geek Poster.” Take it down to Kinko’s and blow it up, or just recreate it on your own walls. Shouldn’t take too much time. Click to Enlarge. …

To Boldy Cut, Yadda Yadda Yadda, Star Trek-Slash-Pizza Joke

To Boldy Cut, Yadda Yadda Yadda, Star Trek-Slash-Pizza Joke

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?…

Essential Tech for a Geek

Essential Tech for a Geek's Summer

Ah, Summer! It’s the time of the year that even the most stereotypical geek who spends his time coding in a basement can’t wait to get out into the warm sun and fresh air. But just because you’re heading out, doesn’t mean it’s time to let go of your precious technology. Far from it: summer is often the best time to make use of all the incredible tech we’re lucky enough to have access to. Here are some essentials for enjoying summer – while still continuing to geek out. eReader/iPad Few things are more summer-y than sitting under the shade of a tree and kicking back reading a book, newspaper or magazine. But…

Weekly geek tool review: The Digital Measuring Tape

Weekly geek tool review: The Digital Measuring Tape

Ok, so yes we might be nerdy, yes we might have a passion for Star Wars, but that doesn’t mean we still don’t have to hang shelves. The people over at ThinkGeek.com have answered our prayers and is selling a digital measuring tape. Some of us geeks don’t know how to read ‘five sixteenths’ but we sure know that Aldera is the capital city of Alderaan. It has a 16 foot length (for those super long shelves) and will display five different forms of measurements – feet inches fractions, inches fractions, inches decimal, feet decimal, centimeters decimal. It easily switches from Imperial to Metric for all…

But No Star Wars Reference? I

But No Star Wars Reference? I'm Not Impressed.

As a purveyor of offbeat geekery, I am absolutely obligated to show you this. Here’s a girl balancing 15 books on her head while reciting pi to the 100th digit and solving a Rubik’s Cube. Yep. That is all. …

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