In Honor of Today Being Nikola Tesla’s Birthday… Geek Culture!
Nicola Tesla, inventor of many high tech things would have been 153 today… so here you go… happy geeky celebration!
And there’s more!
Category: Geek Culture
The Weird, Wonderful, Wired World of Geek Culture!
New Weird Al – New Geek Culture – Craigslist!
Check it out! Weird Al does a Doors spoof of “Craigslist!”
The Dungeon Master Has Lost His Last Dice Roll
Gary Gygax, the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons died today. I can remember playing D&D in college; my best friend, Matt, was an awesome DM. Pretty wild. It seems like the end of an era!
Gary Gygax, ‘Father of D&D,’ Dies at 69
Gary Gygax, one of the co-creators of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, according to Stephen Chenault, CEO of Troll Lord Games. Gygax designed the original D&D game with Dave Arneson in 1974, and went on to create the Dangerous Journeys and Legendary Adventure RPGs, as well as a number of board games. He also wrote several fantasy novels. ‘I don’t think I’ve really grokked it yet,’ said Mike Mearls, the lead developer of the upcoming 4th edition of Dungeons and Dragons. ‘He was like the cool uncle that every gamer had. He shaped an entire generation of gamers.'”
Ultimate BSOD?
“At one of Toronto’s locations of The Bay department store, four giant screens have suffered from the infamous Blue Screen of Death for days. You’d think that someone would, I dunno, turn off the freakin’ screens. Or, at minimum, there’s gotta be some 2.4gHz nanny cam feed they could leech for at least a few days before anyone complained. Because after the first 24 hours or so of BSOD, we begin to think that they like the aesthetic.”
Uh-Oh! Dilbert’s Boss Has Heard of Open Source!
Pesky trade magazines!
Once the secret gets out, how do you stop it? Hee-hee!
Hi, I’m Linux!
“I’m a Mac, I’m a PC!” And now, “Hi, I’m Linux!” Cool! Check out these Novell “commercial” spoofs! I like the last one, where both PC and Mac admit they are running Linux in virtual sessions!
If You Get It… You’re a Geek!
If you get the joke, then you are a Geek! Very cool! If you want the T-Shirt, check out the link below:
Dogs drool, Geeks rule!
Trekkers, Rejoice and Shout! Today is the 40th Anniversary of Star Trek!
Hooray! 40 years ago today was THE day! The day Star Trek went on the air! 40 years of “boldly going where no man (or, one) has gone before!” Live long and prosper my friends!
And, a “Peace and Long Life!” to the Star Trek franchise and it’s upbeat vision of the future!
Is Bill Gates the Antichrist? (Just kidding…)
Is Bill Gates the Antichrist? You decide! Bill Gates, of Microsoft fame’s full name is William Henry Gates III. By converting the letters of his name to the ASCII-values and adding his (III), you get the following:
B 66
I 73
L 76
L 76
G 71
A 65
T 84
E 69
S 83
+ 3 (for the III at the end of his full name)
————–
666 !!
Some might ask, “How did Bill Gates get so powerful?” Coincidence? Or just the beginning of mankind’s ultimate and total enslavement???
Again, before you decide, consider the following:
M S – D O S 6 . 2 1
77+83+45+68+79+83+32+54+46+50+49 = 666
W I N D O W S 9 5
87+73+78+68+79+87+83+57+53+1 = 666
Coincidence? You decide…
Weird, but Cool… a Robotic Chair!
Geek culture time again! How about a chair that blows itself apart, then reassembles itself? You HAVE to see this video:
Now if all furniture would just assemble itself!