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 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…

Rewind: Hanson Hosein on SxSW, iPad 2, NYT paywall

Hanson Hosein of the UW MCDM program.

Our guest this past weekend on the inaugural GeekWire Podcast was television news veteran and gadget aficionado Hanson Hosein, director of the University of Washington Master of Communication in Digital Media program. We talked about everything from his recent visit to South by Southwest Interactive to his thoughts on the new iPad 2 and the… Read More…