Downloaded Star Trek Off iTMS? Claim Your $25
Because I actually have a life playing with my Polly Pocket playsets (TOO fun!), I didn’t notice that Star Trek: The Original Series had gone up on the iTunes Music Store, been taken down, and then...
View ArticleGeek Out Your Dad For Father's Day
Looking for a way to show your pops that you care and that you think he’s a big ol’ tech geek at the same time? Stop over at Fractalspin.com and check out its list of Father’s Day gifts. Featured are...
View ArticleBest Buy Tech Tells All
Consumerist, the site every CEO loves to hate, just ran a huge interview with a former Best Buy employee who essentially said that Geek Squad techs pirated MP3s, sold amateur porn to amateur porn...
View ArticleIt is the day of the dead
This is just plain creepy and weird. I love my Mac and at one point I loved my PC, but…but…WTF is this?! It can’t be a photoshop job, can it? Geek’s Tomb
View ArticleWhat to get the geeky girl in your life according to a geeky girl
Askmen.com got their top 10 hottest tech women of 2007 all wrong when they failed to include geeksugar, in my honest opinion. Anyhoo, geeksugar put together a gift guide for the geeky girl in your life...
View ArticleGuess what Merriam-Webster's word of the year is?
Merriam-Webster has named "w00t" the word of the year for 2007. W00t! President John Morse says that it’s the "ideal choice because it blends whimsy and new technology." "It shows a really interesting...
View ArticleShirts that give you health when you're close to your other
[photopress:hugshirts_1.jpg,full,center] We’re coming up to Valentine’s Day, 2008, and here I am again without a date. Ok, not true, I have two dates, but it’s not like that. Ok, it is if I’m lucky....
View ArticleDuck Hunt tattoo should be discouraging, and it is
[photopress:dhts.jpg,full,center] Normally, if I were to meet a girl with a tattoo from an NES game, I’d likely fall in love. But man, this is just mean: The Duck Hunt dog laughing. If you see this in...
View ArticleTop 11 Geeked-out art cars
[photopress:floppy3.jpg,full,center] Slippery Brick has compiled a list of eleven awesome geek cars. My fave is the Floppy Disk Car, which I see puttering around Seattle often. I love it. 11 awesome...
View ArticleVintage video game themed cutting boards cut straight through to my geeky heart
Are we as citizens ready for icons from our 8-bit pasts to make their way into our kitchens? Yes, yes we are. Take this Triforce cutting board. It’s fully usable and will remind you of your quest...
View ArticleGeeky Star Wars wedding looks like it was a lot of fun
I’m likely never going to get married. Not that I couldn’t, indeed I do OK for myself, but because I’m not an idiot. Sure, for some of you it works out, but I’m not the type. If I were, I’d do like...
View ArticleSwiss resort for geeks features high-powered space telescopes, photography
The Swiss are interesting. For a new hotel, some eggheads got together and created a six-room building that features a domed roof on each suite. Your room will also include a powerful telescope and...
View ArticleLike gadgets? You're probably an arrogant prick
Well, the secret’s out. People who are into technology and gadgets have a high tendency to be a-holes. Can you believe it? According to Reuters… “An online study evaluating the characteristics of...
View ArticleUnboxing: Blu-ray "Iron Man" Ultimate Edition
This is a gadget blog not a movie blog! Now that that’s out of the way, I’d like to share with my fellow comic book geeks the unboxing of the Blu-ray “Iron Man” Ultimate Edition. I have yet to pop it...
View ArticleBlizzard announces new expansion, "Cataclysm"
Time to clear up all the rumors people. The opening ceremony at Blizzcon just ended, and it ended with a bang. Thankfully, much of the speculation has been cleared up, and we finally have some answers...
View ArticleWhen Geeks Attack, Shanghai Edition (TCTV)
For some in Silicon Valley, Asia remains an alluring black box. A promising world with pockets of hyper growth, obscured by a tangled web of unfamiliar languages, customs, regulations and native...
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An Interview With CODE2040, A Non-Profit Out To Diversify Silicon Valley
I had a chance to discuss an amazing new non-profit program called CODE2040 with one of its founders today, Laura Weidman Powers. The mission of this program is to bring diversity to Silicon Valley by...
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If The Health Care Industry Married Silicon Valley, They’d Have Babies Named...
I just got back to San Francisco from the 15-year celebration of LIVESTRONG, the Lance Armstrong Foundation. It was an interesting time to be in Austin, as most of the world is still shell-shocked from...
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The Weekly Good: The Problems Of Today Will Be Solved By The Minds Of Tomorrow
[Note: This is a weekly series. If your company is doing something amazing to help a charitable cause or doing some good in your community, please reach out.] If you’re looking for a great story to end...
View ArticleLoot Crate, the subscription startup for fans and geeks, raises $18.5M
Geeky commerce startup Loot Crate is announcing that it has raised $18.5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Upfront Ventures, with participation from Breakwater Investment Management,...
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