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: Angry Birds lands late, DealSpringer pumps up, and Hef sidesteps Jobs

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Twitter, Facebook and other online distractions are costing our economy dearly. Here, go spend some time reading a story about it. Speaking of distractions, uncensored versions of Playboy will finally arrive on the iPad tomorrow — as a web app, thereby avoiding Apple’s App Store restrictions. The Northwest version of the 140 Characters conference, better known… Read More…

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

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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…