Commentary: Does shopping online mean we aren’t farting around anymore?

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I had a baby and I found in the first few weeks of her life, the things I couldn’t get done online didn’t get done (sorry hair). My early days as a parent were spent sleeping, trying to sleep or wishing I was sleeping. And somewhere in between managing a butt that was not my… Read More…

Nerd Notes: Alcoholic Internet memes, video games as vintage books and more

“I don’t blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them. “

Valve hooks up Team Fortress 2, for free! And apparently the game is also free of ads to boot. Nevada won’t discriminate against a car just because there isn’t anyone driving it. Give those 3 lazy fingers a job with this 5 fingered mouse. Some Great Showdowns are perfectly depicted in watercolor by Scott Campbell, and I want them… Read More…

Nerd Notes: Iron Man goes to work, Jobs lands a comic and a woolly Robin Williams makes commercial

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Bungie announces Bungie Mobile. Keep tabs on your Halo: Reach score and your buddies via iOS. Goodbye capes and Spandex, hello black turtlenecks and jeans. Steve Jobs is getting his own comic book. Ever wonder how LEGO bricks are made? Neither have I. This dude made himself an Iron Man suit and then wore it to work. Hopefully he… Read More…

Nerd Notes: A dad embarrasses his kid for a year and Peanuts on Twitter

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Microsoft releases a teaser trailer for Halo 4. Master Chief is still a mega hunk, sporting a mega gun.   Tetris had a birthday earlier this week (27 years old!). Here are 10 facts about your favorite unbeatable game. Introducing the Talk-o-Meter app. The passive aggressive department’s R&D is starting to pay off. When Peanuts met… Read More…

Nerd Notes: Eat ramen 3 times a day, meditate, and don’t steal laptops with built-in cameras

Geek meditation session from Joy of Tech

Microsoft’s Gamefest 2011 is now open for registration. Molly Wizenberg of Seattle is featured in The New York Times for her money-making blog Orangette. These nerds made a jetpack and got a fake human (a dummy, if you will) to Rocketeer it 5,000 feet up into the sky. This was all before the emergency parachute landing, of… Read More…

Nerd Notes: Sony Vaio goes gold, it’s hip to be geek and an alien scares a kid

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Seattle Retro Gaming Expo is going on this weekend at Hotel Deca in the UD.  And don’t even think about missing the Nerdcore and chiptunes concerts at Pink Gorilla Games. How do you take your Sony Vaio S? Brown with a shot of gold? Google gets down with wind power and invests $55 mil in… Read More…

Nerd Notes: Showering with Star Wars, peeing with video games and wedding with capes

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Looks like the T-Mobile jingle isn’t going to survive the AT&T acquisition.  RIP little jingle. Bane gives his best over-the-shoulder glance in the first image of him released from Christopher Nolan’s latest bat flick “The Dark Knight Rises”. Purina Petcare made up a few iPad apps for cats and it’s taking every bit of self respect I… Read More…

Nerd Notes: The sport of bearding, the art of pitching a startup and the cult of Apple

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Germany takes one home in the name of bearding.  The world’s grossest best beard goes to this guy. “When my beard isn’t styled, it goes down to my waist.” *shutter* Minecraft: Hayao Miyazaki style. As if Minecraft and Hayao Miyazaki movies weren’t already cool enough. This is what happens when geeks want to class up… Read More…

Nerd Notes: Facebook plays dirty, squids in space and Batman sweats it up

There definitely isn't any antiperspirant on that utility belt

Facebook hired a PR firm to publicly hate on Google. Wow, Facebook really didn’t Like Google’s +1. Cell phones are killing bees. There really should be a law against talking on the phone while pollinating. NASA has officially started the Endeavor countdown. Launch is set for 8:56a on Monday, May 16. Little squids will be… Read More…

Nerd Notes: Angry Birds hits the web, an octopus ballet and ice cream Androids

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In case you didn’t already know it, Star Wars changed the world and now there’s an info graph to prove it. In related news, people are STILL talking about Star Wars.Now here’s a ballet you don’t want to miss! The octopus ballet was filmed 200 miles off the Oregon coast by a team of UW researches…. Read More…

Nerd Notes: Game of Thrones guide, careers in space and a tiny Chewie

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A buttload of LEGOs and 6 months later this Master Chief costume emerged… The new Brink launch trailer is cool but loud. What kind of fantasy would Game of Thrones be without a complex cast of characters and faraway lands? Without towns called Clegane’s Keep and shield yielding hunks like Loras Tyrell? And what sort of geek would you be without… Read More…

Nerd Notes: Free Comic Book Day, Bill Nye at UW and the coolest tiny airport ever

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Free Comic Book Day is this Saturday, May 7. Participating stores around the Seattle area can be found here.  Mother’s Day is on Sunday and here’s 10 geeky tech gift ideas. If nothing else, be sure to give your mum some tech TLC by making sure she isn’t double clicking hyperlinks or left in the dark… Read More…

Nerd Notes: Marvel joins Netflix, holy helmets and Cusack strikes back

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Neil Cameron makes the alphabet awesome yet again. This time it’s Japanese themed and proceeds go to tsunami relief efforts.American Greetings presents digital greeting cards just in time for Mother’s Day. It’s amazing they can create a product that makes a regular ol’ card seem so eco-friendly. Holy bike safety! These angelic bike helmets look more like TRON… Read More…

Nerd Notes: A ball catching bot, an internet kiss and the Finger-Nose

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The intelligence behind tracking Osama is revealed via Twitter. Introducing the floppy disk necklace. Hey, if Mickey Rourke, Mortal Kombat and the fanny pack can make a comeback, so too can the floppy-d. The largest 3-D map of the universe ever has been created by a group of top-notch geek astronomers. Get a load of this talented… Read More…

Nerd Notes: Social Vending Machines and the Grinch of the royal wedding

Now here’s a kid who knows how to ruin a picture that 3 billion people will be viewing

Mario gets a Portal gun. If Princess Peach had one she wouldn’t be stuck in another castle all the time. Check out these clever little propaganda posters for the office. Rumor has it that R.L. Stine books are due to hit the big screen. We’re worried about the embossed Goosebumps logo making the transition from… Read More…

Nerd Notes: Tattooed teeth, the battleshoe and a Borderlands proposal

Battleshoe via Boing Boing

Eric Schmidt interviews Tina Fey at Google HQ. Highlights include Tina telling Eric he would be the kind of guest star that would “keep 30 Rock’s ratings low”. She also mentions that “computers” are among the high tech gadgets she uses. The elusive white iPhone 4 goes on sale tomorrow. If you want your phone to match… Read More…

Nerd Notes: Bill & Ted 3, Yoda bat and the best of Sakura-Con

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The Harvard Business Review tried to have a very serious discussion with Ben Huh about cat pictures, misspellings and Fail Blog. Amazon and the case of the $23 million textbook. How Amazon tried to rip off a really smart college kid with too much time on his hands. Bill S. Preston, Esq. tweeted yesterday that the Bill &… Read More…

Nerd Notes: Easter bunnies will fail, whales will sing and AT&T will survive

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Whale songs hit the charts. Turns out whales aren’t just singing to get laid. AT&T is not going to crumble, not going to lay down and die. So take that, Verizon. Going on day 3 of the busted Playstation network and causes are still unknown. Today kicks off the first weekend since the Portal 2… Read More…

Nerd Notes: Whales inspire pianos, bugs inspire robots and marijuana inspires Ziggy

Marijuanaman: Celebrating 4/20 everyday.

How to fix any computer by The Oatmeal. Kohler introduces new $6,000 “smart” toilet. The perfect place to spend the day listening to music, heating your feet and spritzing your biz. You know what they say about Tweeting and the length of your relationship… Meet Hector, the insect inspired robot. He’s a total creep. There’s… Read More…

Nerd Notes: A Kinect controlled armchair, a chameleon attacks and a president steals a pen

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An official Rise of the Planet of the Apes trailer is released featuring slick CG apes, courtesy of Weta Digital (Avatar).  John Lithgow is on-board, but Harry and the other Hendersons are not. When iPhones attack: Chameleon horror addition. A New York photographer uses animated GIFs to class up fashion photography. Researchers at University of California in… Read More…