Category Archives: Geek

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How the Top Airlines Use Facebook

All Facebook takes a look at how the top U.S. airlines use Facebook, based on a Tnooz article about how the top European airlines take advantage of the social-media megalith. None of the top 10 US carriers encourage customer complaints … Continue reading

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Graboids: ‘Tremors’ Monsters Explained

This educational and entertaining film teaches you all you need to know about Graboids. This will be useful if you ever travel to Perfection, Nevada. Graboids are the monsters in Tremors, which you already knew… unless you’ve been living under … Continue reading

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Like Mom Like Dad: More Awesomeness from Ze Frank

Ze Frank’s latest project is called Like Mom Like Dad, and involves users sending photos of themselves imitating as closely as possible a photo of their mother or father. Some of the likenesses are amazing, as is the attention to … Continue reading

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Mario Kart Power-Ups Appear in Portland Bike Lanes

Some seriously geeky cyclists painted power-up symbols from Mario Kart onto some of Portland, Oregon’s bike lanes. The video is hilarious: watch the cyclists do their best to avoid the banana peels. Better still: the newscaster rattling off what each … Continue reading

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The Great Typo Hunt: Nationwide Sign Cleanup

Two men, Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson, crossed the big, beautiful USA in order to combat the scourge of typos and misspellings on signage. I can’t believe they only found 437 typos. The greengrocer’s apostrophe seemed to be a repeat … Continue reading

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Stormtrooper Helmets for Make-a-Wish Foundation

If you like Star Wars and Make-a-Wish Foundation, then you’ll love the TK Project. The great and the good are customizing some Stormtrooper helmets and auctioning them off in support of Make-a-Wish. That’s pretty cool. The producers and cast of Lost … Continue reading

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Zach Anner Has His Own Site At Last

Zach Anner, Internet superstar and would-be DIY TV host has his own site, a varitye/comedy affair that looks like something you’d see at 2am on cable access. I mean that as a huge compliment. Zach Anner’s domination of the Intertubes continues. … Continue reading

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Robot Road Trip: Robovans Driving from Italy to Shanghai

Robotic Vans to Cross Europe and Asia Two robot vans are taking a road trip that many humans will envy: Parma, Italy to Shanghai, China. Each robot-controlled van will be paired with a human-driven van as they make their way … Continue reading

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Tik Tok to the Future: Ke$ha vs Michael J. Fox

If you don’t agree that Tik Tok to the Future is awesome, then you just failed the Voight-Kampff Test. You’re simply not human. Sorry you had to hear it from me. Note that you are not required to actually like … Continue reading

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‘Oprah Hates Disabled People’: Zach Anner Doesn’t Make the Top 5 in OWN Contest

‘Oprah Hates Disabled People’ ? No, But Zach Anner Gets Pushed Out of Top 5: The Vote-Rigging Saga Continues Somehow, and against all reason, a certain Zach Anner did not make the top 5 in the Oprah Winfrey Network’s search … Continue reading

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