If Fonts were People…
It turns out that if fonts were people, Times New Roman would be Lex Luthor and Arial Narrow would be a hick… pun-tastic!
Source: CollegeHumor
Archive for August, 2008
Geek Media Round-Up: August 5, 2008
Art
- Jeremy Mayer creates amazing works of art entirely out of disassemble typewriters assembled without solder or welding.
Film
- Dark Knight is continuing to break box office records, now grossing near US$400 million.
- Dark Knight isn’t out of theaters yet, and rumors are already flying that Johnny Depp could be the Riddler in the next Batman Sequel?
- Entertainment Weekly has a gallery of 12 Great Pop-Culture Vampires
- The List Universe brings you the Top 10 Great Robots in Film, starting with Short Circuit’s Johnny 5 and building to False Maria from Metropolis
- Overthinking It explores The Philosophy of Batman.
- Popular Mechanics of all magazines takes a look at the 10 Best Car Chases in Movie History and asks if Wanted Makes the List.
Internet
- Top ten great Star Wars quotes and what actually makes them great.
- UGO has a sizzling gallery of the Top 50 Hottest Sci-Fi Girls, starting with Megan Fox.
Literature
- Free Fiction: “Seeing Other People” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman is now available at Lone Star Stories.
- Warren Ellis talks about the grim future of science fiction magazines.
Television
- Ten Reasons Why the Clone Wars TV Series is Going to Rule.
Music Video: Ode to Joy, Performed by Beaker
Am I the only one who thinks that Beaker and Dr. Bunsen Honeydew deserved their own television series? Toss in Pinky and the Brain and Lab Rats episodes, and you would have a brilliant programming block that would pull in the desperately geeky in droves!
Source: The Beaker YouTube Channel
Link Round-Up: August 4, 2008
- BBspot’s Top 11 Changes Geeks Would Make to the Olympics.
BBspot’s Top 11 Signs Steve Jobs Is Dead.
Broke? This list of 100 Things to Do During a Money Free Weekend might help you make the most of the rest of your summer.
Enhance your HTML Forms with this handful of suggestions.
LifeHacker has posted a tutorial on the Top 10 Computer Annoyances and How to Fix Them.
In case you ever need to know, here’s a Wiki on How to Escape from Handcuffs.
Mashable rounds up twenty open source video tutorials.
The New Yorker takes a look at why we have ideas when we do in THE EUREKa HUNT [PDF Version].
The Top 50 Entrepreneur Geek Blogs Of The Year.
Unkno is a website devoted to completely unnecessary knowledge.
Wired shares a gallery of the Best Star Wars remakes and recaps.
Video Game Releases for the Week of August 4, 2008
Monday, August 4
King of Clubs (Wii)
A mini-golf game with a twist, set in an abandoned Nevada park.
Tuesday, August 5
B-Boy (PS2)
Hip-hop dance game featuring competition against real-worlds stars Crazy Legs, Kamel, and Mouse.
Beijing 2008 – The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games (PC)
Compete in a series of over thirty-five Olympic events.
The Cheetah Girls: Passport to Stardom (DS)
A “music adventure game” that follows the upcoming Disney Channel Original Movie, “The Cheetah Girls”.
Crash Time (X360)
An arcade-style racing game
GRID (DS)
A racing game that tests players’ driving skills in a series of competitions around the globe. Read the rest of this entry » » »
Film and Video Releases for the Week of August 4, 2008
The comedy Pineapple Express (R) hits theaters this Friday, August 6th.
Motivational Poster: Fan Boys
Yeah, you can save the cheerleader, but that doesn’t mean she’s not going to be a complete bitch every time you mob her…
This Day in Geek History: August 4
1922
All thirteen million telephones in North America go silent for the space of one minute at sunset during the funeral services of Alexander Graham Bell. Bell is buried in a coffin built by his lab staff in a tomb carved into the solid rock of Beinn Bhreagh Mountain on his estate in Nova Scotia, Canada. To commemorate his pioneering contributions to telecommunications technology, AT&T and the Bell System suspends service at their switchboards and switching stations across Canada and the United States. Bell passed away on August 2, 1922.
1971
The US launches a satellite into lunar orbit from a manned spacecraft for the first time.
1987
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) introduces the PS/2 Model 25, with an 8MHz Intel 8086 CPU, a combined system unit complete with monitor, dual floppy drives (no hard drive), and reduced-size keyboard. Price: US$1,350
1988
The first shuttle mission since the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster is delayed when a computer cancels the ignition of the Space Shuttle Discovery during an engine test after determining that a valve was failing to close fast enough. Both the test and the computer system were instituted since the Challenger’s launch to ensure the mission’s safety.
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