Hey, look, it's another inspired re-imagining of a Star Wars icon as it would appear in a Jules Verne novel. What? Don't look at me like that. You know this is cool.
Pic: Another steampunk stormtrooper
- Date: October 6th, 2008
- Author: Jay Garmon
- Category: Geekend, Star Wars, Science Fiction, Fantasy
- Tags: Star Wars, Jay Garmon
T-shirt of the week: The cake is a lie
- Date: October 3rd, 2008
- Author: Jay Garmon
- Category: Geekend, Video Games, Music, Humor, Gaming, Computers, T-shirts
- Tags: Cake, Dot-com, Stock Options, Human Resources, Benefits, Stock Options & Grants, Jay Garmon
This is perhaps our most obscure geek shirt recommendation ever. Anyone who has played through Half-Life 2's complete Orange Box set knows that when a passive-aggressive supercomputer promises you cake, you'll end up up with heartache and misery.
Video: Astrobiology as explained by a rap star
- Date: October 2nd, 2008
- Author: Jay Garmon
- Category: Geekend, Music, Space, Video, Science
- Tags: Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jay Garmon
Generally speaking, you're surprised when a rap video namechecks the Drake Equation, the Goldilocks Zone, and the WOW Signal. Check out the next best thing to the Large Hadron Collider rap.
Webcomic: The known universe (abridged)
- Date: October 1st, 2008
- Author: Jay Garmon
- Category: Geekend, Science Fiction, Humor, Space, Webcomics, Science
- Tags: Universe, Jay Garmon
Have you ever wondered what the observable universe looked like when illustrated in a hand-drawn, logarithmic scale? Me neither, but xkcd answered it anyway -- and it's really cool.
Geek Trivia: Advanced Python scripting
- Date: September 30th, 2008
- Author: Jay Garmon
- Category: Geekend, Science Fiction, Television, Movies, Music, Creative Writing, Humor, History, Books
- Tags: Geek Trivia, Python, British Broadcasting Corp., Chapman Co., TV, Monty Python, Pythonite, Gilliam, Innes, Jay Garmon
- Special Reports » See more posts on: Geek Trivia
Besides the six actual members of Monty Python -- Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin -- who are the only two people ever credited as writers during the entire run of Monty Python's Flying Circus?
Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for Sept. 30, 2008
- Date: September 30th, 2008
- Author: Jay Garmon
- Category: Geekend, Space, History, Science
- Tags: Geek Trivia, Quibble, Jay Garmon
This week's quibble comes from the Sept. 23, 2008 edition of Geek Trivia, "One for the money, two for the tow." TechRepublic member rsprinkle noticed that The Trivia Geek mischaracterized the final disposition of three Apollo Lunar Modules.
Don’t panic, post-Adams Hitchhiker’s novel on the way
- Date: September 29th, 2008
- Author: Jay Garmon
- Category: Geekend, Science Fiction, Humor, Books
- Tags: George Lucas, Series, Hitchhikers, Comments Section, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Jay Garmon
The fact that Douglas Adams died a few years ago won't stop another Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy novel being written (hat tip, SF Signal). But is that a good thing?
The worst science fiction TV shows
- Date: September 27th, 2008
- Author: Jerry Taylor
- Category: Geekend, Star Trek, Science Fiction, Television, Fantasy
- Tags: Science Fiction, Series, Hawke, Frieberger, Frieber, Logan, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
Jerry Taylor invites your comments on the worst of science fiction television.
Geek Gifts 2008: The 2GoPC ultra-portable Classmate netbook
- Date: September 26th, 2008
- Author: Mark Kaelin
- Category: Geekend, Computers
- Tags: PC, Computer, 2GoPC, Screen Resolution, Productivity, Mark Kaelin
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Mark Kaelin reviews the 2GoPC from Computer Technology Link (CTL) for the TechRepublic Geek Gift Guide 2008.
T-shirt of the week: Weyland-Yutani Corp
- Date: September 26th, 2008
- Author: Jay Garmon
- Category: Geekend, Science Fiction, Movies, Horror, T-shirts
- Tags: Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jay Garmon
This week's tee advertises the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. You may remember them as the futuristic multinational that operated the interstellar mining vessel Nostromo or set up the "shake and bake" atmospheric processing colony on LV-426.
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