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- Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for May 6, 2008
- If you uncover a questionable fact or debatable aspect of this week's Geek Trivia, just post it in the discussion area of the article. Every week, yours truly will choose the best quibble from our assembled masses and discuss it in a future edition of Geek Trivia. ...
- Tags: Quibble, Member, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Movie review: Iron Man
- Last night, your friendly neighborhood Trivia Geek scored tickets to a free sneak preview of Iron Man, the kickoff flick for the geek summer movie season that opens worldwide on Friday. First impressions: I'd pay to see it again. And will, at full price, this weekend. (Quick...
- Tags: Movie, Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr., Tony Stark, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for April 29, 2008
- If you uncover a questionable fact or debatable aspect of this week's Geek Trivia, just post it in the discussion area of the article. Every week, yours truly will choose the best quibble from our assembled masses and discuss it in a future edition of Geek Trivia. This week's...
- Tags: Quibble, Government, Vertical Industries, Corporate Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Geek Trivia: Beyond the (Hollywood) stars
- To hear the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce tell it, receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is equivalent to receiving an Oscar, Tony, Emmy, or Grammy (once again, no love for the Eisners, Nebulas, or Hugos). The iconic stars, which are embedded in sidewalks near Hollywood Boulevard and...
- Tags: Star, Icon, Fame, Disneyland, Ali, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Rundown: Geek movies of summer 2008
- In movie industry terms, the "summer movie season" actually begins before summer, on the first weekend in May (as in, this weekend, which is why we're resurrecting this post from March), and ends before summer, on the last weekend in August. There are 18 geek-centric major motion pictures scheduled for...
- Tags: Film, Anime, Movie, Robots, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Emerging Technologies, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- T-shirt of the week: Toaster
- This week's Geekend-approved item of apparel is the Toaster Shirt from Glarkware. This, my friends, is a prime example of a "stealth geek" shirt. To the untrained eye, it appears that the wearer is merely declaring a love for toast and/or retro-futuristic pop art. (There's a pop...
- Tags: TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Geek Trivia: Data with destiny
- The Swiss are famously neutral on nearly every major public issue of the day, including--apparently--the construction of potential doomsday devices beneath their own soil. Still, don't look for the state of Hawaii to stand idly by and allow the world to collapse into an artificial black hole or convert into...
- Tags: Data, Distributed Computing, Grid, LHC@home, Network Technology, Networking, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for April 22, 2008
- If you uncover a questionable fact or debatable aspect of this week's Geek Trivia, just post it in the discussion area of the article. Every week, yours truly will choose the best quibble from our assembled masses and discuss it in a future edition of Geek Trivia. This week's...
- Tags: Quibble, Corporate Communications, Processors, Semiconductors, Marketing, Hardware, Components, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- The complete list of Star Wars references from The Simpsons
- StarWars.com and SNPP, the self-appointed authority on Internet-based Simpsons minutia, have tag-teamed to create this nigh-exhaustive list of Star Wars references from Simpsons episodes (of which there are many). Considering that the Simpsons opening sequence done Star Wars-style is the Geekend's most popular video ever, you should eat this up....
- Tags: Star Wars, Professional Development, Career, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Geek Trivia: Clear browser history
- Fifteen years ago next week, the first mainstream World Wide Web browser, Mosaic, was released to the public. On April, 22, 1993, lead programmers Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina offered up Mosaic under some of the most generous terms possible for a non-shareware or freeware program. Over the next year,...
- Tags: Clear, Web Browser, NCSA Mosaic, Cello, Case Law, Web Browsers, Internet, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for April 15, 2008
- If you uncover a questionable fact or debatable aspect of this week's Geek Trivia, just post it in the discussion area of the article. Every week, yours truly will choose the best quibble from our assembled masses and discuss it in a future edition of Geek Trivia. ...
- Tags: Quibble, Corporate Communications, Processors, Semiconductors, Marketing, Hardware, Components, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Pics: Steampunk Star Wars action figures
- So long as we're on the subject of steampunk remixes of favorite geek objects, lets cut right to the critical mass of Jules Verne-inspired uber-dorkdom: Steampunk Star Wars action figures. All that's missing is a homebrew playset of this steampunk Death Star. Click the image for...
- Tags: Star Wars, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- My first comic book: What got you hooked?
- Further evidence that the geek revolution is upon us, Entertainment Weekly asks 15 of the topic comic book creators working today what classic funnybook got them hooked on the medium. Fantastic Four #1 makes a couple of appearances on the list--which dates some of the creators, as it came out...
- Tags: Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- The perfect sci-fi library
- There are 15 science fiction books in "the perfect library"--at least according The Telegraph. It's an idea almost too stupid for words, but here's the list, anyway. We'll get to what's wrong with it in a second. 1984 by George Orwell 2001: A Space Odyssey by...
- Tags: Science Fiction, Comments Section, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Geek Trivia: A trial of the Spirit
- Editor's note: Since one of NASA's Mars rovers recently escaped the executioner's axe, the Trivia Geek is using that as an excuse to recycle this Classic Geek, which originally ran on Jan. 3, 2006. Two years ago this week, Spirit -- the first of NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers...
- Tags: Software, NASA, Flash Memory, Rover, Spirit, Memory, Tools & Techniques, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Management, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- The Trivia Geek returns!
- Greetings, faithful Geekenders. Your friendly neighborhood Trivia Geek is back in town. No, I've not been rehired as an employee of CNET, but some of my old buddies in TechRepublic editorial twisted the right arms to get me on as a contract contributor to Geekend (you can stop harassing Jason...
- Tags: Blog, Blogging, Internet, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Geek Trivia: Contest(ed) winners
- If one definition of insanity is to try the same action over and over yet hope for different results, then Pepsi marketers might be able to defend a claim that their cola is the most insane soft drink on the planet. Why? Because Pepsi is still running promotional contests to...
- Tags: PepsiCo, Sea Launch, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- The mad scientist's chemical desk reference
- The Indopedia has this handy list of famous fictional chemical substances, broken down by entirely fictional elements, fictional isotopes of real elements, fictional properties of real elements, fictional compounds and alloys, and fictional medicines or drugs. Required reading for any supervillain in training. Besides classics like Adamantium,...
- Tags: Scientist, Indopedia, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Geek Trivia: Spirit of x86
- If someone were to force you to sum up the modern world in three or fewer alphanumeric characters, you could make a pretty good case for the optimal response being x86. As in, the x86 instruction set which has informed the design and function of microprocessors since 1978. The x86...
- Tags: Brand, Intel X86, Intel Pentium, Microprocessor, CPU, Intel Corp., Chip, X86 Architecture, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Pic: Google naps
- What happens when uber-rich engineers get to spec out their own "nap pods" for workday power-sleeping? You get these refugees from the set of Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money. Just a reminder that not everything Google makes is successful, and this giant albino Pac-Man...
- Tags: Google Inc., Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
