Posts Tagged ‘Geek’

Wow. Wow. Wow.


This is a very geeky, but great, video on the benefits of fungi.
Mycologist Paul Stamets lists 6 ways the mycelium fungus can help save the universe: cleaning polluted soil, making insecticides, treating smallpox and even flu…

A delicate dance between dinner and death.

The mycelium is consumed by the ants. They become mummified and BOING, a mushroom [...]


I received an email with 62 photos for a video project I’m working on. Instead of the images being an attachment, I got them as inline images. There’s not a button or an obvious option to get all the inline images, so you have to right-click each one and save them individually. That’s just way [...]




Oddly entrancing. Not sure what else to say.

More about Boxxy @ Encyclopedia Dramatica.


How to turn $5,000 into $15,920 in less than 5 minutes… in chips, not money.
Take out two players with a higher full house. Check.

Dealer: Hand #11235290025
Dealer: dion_sae shows [9d 9h]
Dealer: packphour shows [Tc Jh]
Dealer: oupi06 shows a full house, Sevens full of Jacks
Dealer: packphour shows a full house, Jacks full of Tens
Dealer: packphour wins the [...]


A map of the world, based on population.


Twitter World

16Mar09

A different way of viewing Tweets.
http://twittervision.com/maps/show_3d


The geeky poet in me couldn’t stop laughing at the Haiku Compliant part.


An amazing story about overcoming & redefining our bodies.

Her previous Ted Talk is here…


Is it that late and I just lost it or is this really that funny?
Patient says, “Doctor, it hurts when I do this.” Doctor says, “Then don’t do that. Just kidding. You have lymphatic cancer.”

I was compiling a list of Twitter accounts worth following and I stumbled upon this. The stream is JokeFactory. Feel free [...]


This is rather old, but I keep finding out that people I know have never seen it, so…

It really is good. 6.8 million viewers, much less me, can’t be wrong


I was talking to a new acquaintance this week about blog stats, so I thought I’d take a sampling of how people got here from Google this month.
(Image results only, with SafeSearch off. Search term first, then ranking)
Wood House – 1st out of 26,100,000
Biggest Pool in the World – 1st out of 8,420,000
Inner Feminist – [...]


Busted

11Mar09

Peanut City

11Mar09

Frank Miller, of Sin City fame, does Peanuts.


Facebook, MySpace, AIM, Twitter, gChat, etc… This little add-on for Firefox allows you to organize & monitor all of the social networks you’re a part of, in one sleek & efficient design. Download & install it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1833
Or watch a quick tutorial about it first.


Teh Geek

10Mar09

Rarely am I tagged on the social networks, so when I am, I go and see. Low and behold I found out that in a friend of mine’s Mr. & Mrs. world, I am “The Geek.”

Awe, come on Terri. The Geek? Just because I blog and can speak in binary does not make me a [...]


I’m not sure which is worse, needing a toilet like this or watching 2.5 minutes of things being flushed down a toilet. Enjoy.


Back to Work

08Mar09

Oh, editing & programming on dual monitors, how I’ve missed you.
And here is the video from the picture above. It was one of my earlier projects.



Michael Jackson, Tenacious D, Gorillaz, Avril, Rick Astley, Pokemon(?), Shakira, Spice Girls, Numa Numa and more.
Enjoy.


Serial Portal

03Mar09

While I have Open Office & Google Docs to open MS Word files, sometimes you just want the original program. And honestly, who’s going to pay for a 2003 version of MS Word when it’s for non-commercial use?
Anyway, thanks Serial Portal for a clean, straight-forward site.


The phrase “It’s all Greek to me…” is subject to what language you speak, as described below.

A third generation gank: Packphour > Eye Teeth > Strange Maps



Ice Spike

23Feb09

From Wikipedia. Cool.

An ice spike is an upward-facing icicle that forms as a body of water freezes. Ice spikes can form in natural environments or can be made artificially by freezing distilled water in plastic ice cube trays.
Water expands when it freezes. If there already is a thin sheet of surface ice over the body [...]


1. Your band’s name is the first random article from Wikipedia
2. Your album’s title is the last few words of the last random quotation from QuotationsPage .
3. Your album’s cover is the third image on Flickr’s Explore the Last Seven Days .
4. Photoshop and mix to taste.
Mine:

Mascaras, Gers is a commune in the Gers [...]


Doomsday Vault

11Dec08

Almost every nation keeps collections of native seeds so local crops can be replanted in case of an agricultural disaster. The Global Seed Vault, opened this year on the far-northern Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, is a backup for the backups. It’s badly needed — as many as half the seed banks in developing countries are [...]


First off, what is typography?

Now some kinetic uses of it.
Chemical Burn from “Fight Club”

McLovin from “Superbad” (nsfw)

Friend Nobody Likes by Dane Cook (nsfw)

Marsellus Wallace from “Pulp Fiction” (nsfw)

There’s lots more on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kinetic+typography


Swoopo Exposed

09Dec08

I love being part of a private community for things like this.
I hate being part of a private community because it means having to blur out all their usernames.
However, the scam that’s going on at Swoopo.com is important to share.
Click the image to enlarge.