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The Great Geek Manual
http://thegreatgeekmanual.com/blog/
How to living the Geek life: humor, history, news, and reviews for geeks.
- Added on: Nov 3rd, 2006
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Pipedreamergrey
- Listed in: Humor Technology Culture
Recent Posts
Geek Media Round-Up: November 19, 2009
Film News: J.J. Abrams will be Producing Samurai Jack: The Movie. Is Aku the smoke beast? News: Steven Spielberg Teams with Stephen King for an Under the Dome miniseries. Cinematical names the Top Seven Movies that Start Fights, including The Matr...
Geek Quote of the Day
Before we work on artificial intelligence why don’t we do something about natural stupidity? - Steve Polyak ...
This Day in Geek History: November 20
1906 A US patent is issued to inventor Greenleaf Whittier Pickard, an electrical engineer, for the crystal detector, one of the first devices widely used for receiving radio broadcasts, until the later development of the later triode vacuum tube. Hi...
Geek Quote of the Day
Tinkering is what happens when you try something you don’t quite know how to do, guided by whim, imagination, and curiosity. When you tinker, there are no instructions, but there are also no failures, no right or wrong way of doing things. It’s a...
This Day in Geek History: November 18
1477 William Caxton issues his first dated printed book in England, Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres (”Sayings of the Philosophers). Caxton will produce approximately one hundred copies of the work. 1879 Eugen Skladanowsky presents the ...
Geek Quote of the Day
Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges. - Thoughts and Aphorisms by Sri Aurobindo, 1913. ...
