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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
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Geek Quote of the Day
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
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
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
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
ALL NEW! Star Wars Gangsta Rap: Chronicles ...
This Day in Geek History: November 12
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,...
