Geek Life – Page 136 of 137

Apr 12, 2011, 5:46 PM

Getting to know our Space Shuttle consolation prize

OK, so we didn’t get one of the real Space Shuttles. But the thing we got looks a lot like… Read More

Apr 11, 2011, 8:14 PM

Nerd Notes: The Winklevoss twins go away, video games go for the Grammy and Brazil plays with LEGOs

Judge tells Winklevoss twins to take the money, settlements don’t come in pairs. Google launches a daily trivia game, a… Read More

Apr 8, 2011, 9:46 PM

Nerd Notes: Woz seems lonely, YouTube seems bored and Apple doesn’t seem to like horses

Woz says he’d mull return to Apple if asked — which he hasn’t been. Geek Zodiac. Too bad geeks don’t… Read More

Apr 7, 2011, 12:31 PM

Coming soon to our local Laser Dome: Bieber Fever

Seattle’s Pacific Science Center Laser Dome is one of our favorite local attractions — a geeky night out that everyone… Read More

Apr 6, 2011, 9:30 PM

Nerd Notes: Shakespeare’s Terminator 2, Microscopic Microchip Art, and tweeting for beer at the ballpark

Kevin Zelco (@MsBeerVendor) is taking beer orders (and tips) at Safeco Field via tweets. A @MrUrinal would round this venture out… Read More

Apr 5, 2011, 9:23 PM

Nerd Notes: Commodore Revived, Bill and Ted Return and Snake Makes a Fashion Statement

Commodore USA revives the 64. LOAD “*”,8,1 FTW. Seattle startup Evri’s mobile app EvriThing Baseball is your big ticket this… Read More

Apr 5, 2011, 3:44 PM

Death Cab for Cutie plans historic livestream of new music video at 4 p.m.

I am really curious to see how this turns out. At 4 p.m. today, the Seattle/Bellingham band Death Cab for… Read More

Apr 5, 2011, 1:56 PM

Rare supercar crashes in Seattle: Details from police report; driver still a mystery

A crash in Seattle typically wouldn’t generate interest beyond the region, but car geeks around the country are buzzing about… Read More

Apr 4, 2011, 10:34 PM

Nerd Notes: Volcanoes, sports, sneakers and moonbuggys

Sci-fi fantasy novelist George R.R. Martin feels cheated by the “Lost” finale. Lost co-creator Damon Lindeloff feels like starting a… Read More

Apr 1, 2011, 8:47 PM

Nerd Notes: 10 lessons from Angry Birds, 2 Thor posters and 1 Playmobil Apple Store

10 Lessons from Angry Birds that can make you a better CIO. No, slingshotting birds at the IT staff didn’t… Read More

Apr 1, 2011, 8:12 AM

Paul Allen to reroute Columbia River, floating game trucks and other April Fool’s Day jokes

For whatever reason, the tech industry just loves April Fool’s Day. Big companies, small companies and everyone in between likes… Read More

Mar 31, 2011, 9:11 PM

Nerd Notes: QuickBar dies, Sagan sings again, and Floodzilla

The reviews are in on Amazon’s Cloud Player. Adobe dreams up an iPad Photoshop App. If A Glorious Dawn didn’t spark a… Read More

Mar 30, 2011, 6:58 PM

Nerd Notes: Biz on Zuck, Skype in the Classroom and Noah Wyle +1

$500 Million: Too low for Twitter? Biz drops the juicy details about Zuckerberg’s courting (it happened in a car…) on Howard Stern. Nintendo announces the next console… Read More

Mar 27, 2011, 12:02 AM

Nintendo releases 3DS, and it already has one huge fan in Jimmy Fallon: ‘This is insane’

Gaming nerds spent Saturday night waiting in lines across the country in order to gobble up Nintendo’s new 3DS, which… Read More

Mar 25, 2011, 11:33 AM

Seattle band looks for big hit: ‘(Don’t Wanna Be Your) Facebook Friend’

Afraid of Figs describes itself as Seattle’s “most most prominent dried fruit related geek rock band.” That seemed like a… Read More

Mar 24, 2011, 1:37 AM

How Stephen Colbert made Nathan Myhrvold blush

It’s a little rare to see Nathan Myhrvold rendered speechless. After all, the former Microsoft chief technology officer seems like… Read More

Mar 18, 2011, 1:12 PM

Now Playing: Post-it Wars

There’s a lot of troubling stuff happening in the world right now, and people are looking for new ways to… Read More

Mar 17, 2011, 5:57 PM

March Madness for Robots (Video)

Who cares about basketball when there are robots to watch? The Seattle regionals for the FIRST high-school robotics competition start… Read More

Mar 16, 2011, 1:55 PM

Nuclear fallout? Skip the tin foil, grab a cookie sheet

Seattle startup guru Mike Koss of Startpad.org was watching news coverage of the crisis in Japan when he noticed people… Read More

Mar 15, 2011, 6:38 AM

Jeopardy Fail? Contestants unable to identify FailBlog on game show

Maybe Alex Trebek is a secret FailBlog fanatic. The wildly popular humor Web site — developed by the folks at… Read More

Mar 14, 2011, 4:43 PM

Surgery meets social media: Robotic procedure to be webcast, tweeted

Yes, even the operating room has a hash tag now. Aiming to promote its latest robot-assisted surgical technology, Swedish Orthopedic… Read More

Mar 14, 2011, 4:09 PM

Photo: What better way to celebrate ‘Pi Day’ than a pie eating contest

It’s national Pi Day, which means geeks and math nerds everywhere are celebrating the beauty of the mathematical constant of… Read More

Mar 13, 2011, 1:41 PM

Cool Web Site of the Week: Seattle All Stairs

Some people spend their time knitting, reading books or playing sports. Susan Ott Ralph and David Ralph like staircases. Public… Read More

Mar 13, 2011, 1:12 PM

Seattle Jewish Film Festival goes high-tech with QR Codes

The 16th annual Seattle Jewish Film Festival kicked off this weekend, with more than 30 films on the docket. Attendees… Read More

Mar 11, 2011, 3:29 PM

Evolution of the anti-iPhone shirt, at Microsoft’s hometown Goodwill

For pure tech t-shirt awesomeness, there’s nothing quite like the Goodwill store near Microsoft’s Redmond campus. This is the place… Read More

Mar 10, 2011, 3:00 PM

Dancing with Drones: UW students and autonomous aircraft

As part of their Embedded Systems 472 class at the University of Washington this quarter, electrical engineering students were challenged… Read More

Mar 9, 2011, 11:17 PM

Video: The soda fountain of the future debuts at Taco Time

It’s sleek. It’s cool. And people from all over the city are traveling to see it (and grab a taste… Read More

Mar 9, 2011, 6:48 AM

Live video: Space Shuttle Discovery set for final landing

This live feed from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida should get a lot more interesting a few minutes before… Read More

Mar 8, 2011, 1:33 PM

Abstaining from tech: Lessons from a time warp to 1985

Erika Bitzer, 30, an account director in the Seattle office of the Weber Shandwick public-relations firm, was perhaps the perfect… Read More

Mar 7, 2011, 8:15 AM

William Shatner on his musical classics, Capt. Kirk’s death scene, and living an adventurous life

At this point, you couldn’t blame William Shatner if he were to just tune everyone out and phone it in… Read More