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Classic Arcade Game Deaths

Over at Boing Boing, this fantastic homage to classic gaming really hit home with me. Partially because I could identify so many of the games (even though I’m much younger than some of the oldest in the video) and have…

Alan HenryMarch 31, 2011 Entertainment, Gaming, Geekery, The Net 1 Comment
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Google Unveils +1

I have to say, the concept of “+1” is actually pretty geeky. Lots of people have pointed out how close to net-speak +1 really is, although Google has the right idea with it. Saying “+1” is usually a way to…

Alan HenryMarch 31, 2011 Geekery, Google, Tech News, The Net No Comments
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Nissan Leaf Heads Across America

So word is that the Nissan Leaf is about to hit the road – almost literally, as the all-electric vehicle had previously only been available in a few select markets, especially on the west coast. Soon, according to Nissan, the…

Alan HenryMarch 31, 2011 Gadgets and Gear, Geekery, Tech News 2 Comments
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Space Shuttle Discovery Gets Ready for Retirement

Now that Discovery has finished its final journey into orbit, crews are getting the Space Shuttle ready for its retirement – which isn’t to say that it’s headed off to a dusty trail somewhere: Discovery has a lot of work…

Alan HenryMarch 31, 2011 Geekery, Science No Comments
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Android Trojan Tackles Piracy by Messaging Your Contacts

I’ve reviewed a bunch of mobile apps that promise to help you text while walking or in motion without forcing you to not pay attention to where you’re going, but this is the first time I’ve seen an app that…

Alan HenryMarch 31, 2011 Geekery, Google, Security, Tech News No Comments
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Video :: Angry Birds: The Movie

I wrote about this once today, but I simply have to share it again because it’s absolutely hilarious. Just when you think the Angry Birds ship has sailed, someone like the folks at Rooster Teeth go and do a hilarious…

Alan HenryMarch 29, 2011March 29, 2011 Gaming, Geekery, The Net No Comments
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Handmade Car Made Entirely from Scrap

The story here is actually pretty impressive, I stumbled onto it thanks to a post by a colleague over at Gearlog, who wrote: A homeless man in Brazil took advantage of the discarded shells of these junkers and threw together…

Alan HenryMarch 29, 2011March 29, 2011 Gadgets and Gear, Geekery No Comments
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This BSG Colonial Viper Replica is Gorgeous

The folks at Quantum Mechanix have outdone themselves: the image above is of a replica Colonial Viper, of the kind piloted by Starbuck in the BattleStar Galactica television series. There are actually three versions of the replica: one with Starbuck’s…

Alan HenryMarch 29, 2011 Entertainment, Geekery, The Net 1 Comment
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Blastr: 13 Wonderfully Geeky 404 Error Pages

I’m a big fan of two things about the above photo: Admiral Ackbar, and the sadly now-defunct microblogging and messaging service Pownce, which got sold to Six Apart, found itself tossed in the dustbin along with all of the other…

Alan HenryMarch 24, 2011 Geekery, The Net No Comments
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Picking Apart the AT&T/T-Mobile Merger

Over at PC Mag, some big questions that have been on everyone’s mind since AT&T announced last Sunday that they were buying T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for something on the order of $39 billion get answered by the one and…

Alan HenryMarch 24, 2011 Gadgets and Gear, Geekery, Tech News No Comments
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