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The Great Geek Manual

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How to living the Geek life: humor, history, news, and reviews for geeks.

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  • Geek Quote of the Day

    Posted on Saturday November 14th, 2009 at 00:00 in quote, Quotations

    My visit to Google? Despite the whimsical furniture and other toys, I felt I was entering a 14th-century cathedral — not in the 14th century but in the 12th century, while it was being built. Everyone was busy carving one stone here and another s...

  • This Day in Geek History: November 13

    Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 00:00 in technology, geek, history, geek history

    1907 French inventor Paul Cornu flies the first helicopter. The “flight” carries the vehicle roughly one foot off the ground and only lasts twenty seconds, but it is nonetheless be marked as the first flight of the first helicopter. 1928...

  • Geek Quote of the Day

    Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 00:00 in quote, Quotations

    Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars — mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is “mere”. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagin...

  • Geek Media Round-Up: November 12, 2009

    Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 19:15 in books, gaming, movies, comics, links, media, Sci-fi, films, round-up

    Art Pink Tentacles has a gallery of Sci-fi illustrations by Shusei Nagaoka. Comics Alan Moore, the comic book writer responsible for Watchmen and V For Vendetta, says he’s writing lyrics for Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s next opera...

  • Star Wars Gangsta Rap Video

    Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 13:00 in humor, video, videos, star wars

    ALL NEW! Star Wars Gangsta Rap: Chronicles ...

  • This Day in Geek History: November 12

    Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 00:00 in technology, geek, history, geek history

    1799 American astronomer Andrew Ellicott Douglass makes the first written record of a meteor shower in the US, the Leonids meteor shower, from a ship off the Florida Keys. He writes, “In every instant the meteors were as numerous as the stars,...

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