Motivational Poster: Obama
I’m not very political, and this certainly isn’t an endorsement. It’s just plain funny. WTF?
Source: Eat Our Brains
Archive for October, 2008
Geek Media Round-Up: October 17, 2008
Art
- Half the internet is already drooling over them, but you may as well see them for yourself: Frank Frazetta’s paintings for Battlestar Galactica.
Comics
- Topless Robot looks at The 10 Greatest Superheroes to Get Drunk With.
- Wow. The preview for Azzarello’s JOKER is online, and seriously, I think people are going to be lining up to get their hands on a first edition.
Film
- Cinema Blend compares the cast of Abram’s new Star Trek with the classic cast, side by side.
- Fan-made trailers are already flying think and fast for Batman 3 and some of them aren’t half bad.
- First Showing discusses 5 Badass Reasons Why Fans Will Love The Green Lantern Movie, starting with “Respect for Fans,” which I find dubious on general principal.
- The poster for The Day the Earth Stood Still starring Keanu Reeves has been released.
- You know what? When Dakota Fanning stops trying to be precious, there isn’t a whole lot left to work with. See for yourself at the trailer for her new superhero movie. Yeah, I said superhero.
Internet
- Is JJ Abrams The New Joss Whedon? Cuz if he is, his ass is going to be cancelled.
Television
- Shirley Manson has confessed that she wants to see Terminators have sex on The Sarah Connor Chronicles… and around the world, teenage boys dream sweet dreams of Glau and Manson slathered in WD40…
Writing
This Day in Geek History: October 17
1604
German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes that an exceptionally bright star had suddenly appeared in the constellation Ophiuchus, which later turns out to be the last supernova to have been observed in our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
1881
Bell and Tainter donates a sound recording machine to the Smithsonian Institution that uses jets of air to inscribe sounds.
1885
A steel-making process is patented by Sir Harry Bessemer, a British inventor and metallurgist. His patent is a method of making steel by blasting compressed air through molten iron to remove impurities and excess carbon called the “Bessemer Process,” which makes it possible to mass-produce steel inexpensively.
1888
The first issue of National Geographic Magazine goes on sale. It will initially published irregularly, only when the National Geographic Society accumulated sufficient material to fill an issue.
Thomas Edison files a patent for the first movie projector, Optical Phonograph, which projects images just 1/32-inch across. Edison claims that it will, “do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear.”
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Geek Quote of the Day
October’s the month
When the smallest breeze
Gives us a shower
Of autumn leaves.
Bonfires and pumpkins,
Leaves sailing down -
October is red
And golden and brown.
- - Can Teach Songs
Link Round-Up: October 15, 2008
- 101 CSS Resources to Add to Your Toolbelt of Awesomeness… the title says it all.
- Bookmark this directory of Free File Storage Hosting Websites for later.
- Ever wonder what The 10 Richest Tech Companies?
- FireFox 3.1 Beta is finally available… which means they’ll begin hyping 3.2 tomorrow.
- Kongregate Labs has posted a tutorial on creating flash side-scrolling games.
- Make some extra cash on the side selling graphics and photos through stock sites, like iStockPhoto.
- Open Office 3.0 has been released, but due to high demand, its best to get it on bittorrent.
- Ouseful has posted a demonstration of how Google spreadsheets can scrape and format web data.
- Stanford University’s School of Engineering is giving away courses as Bittorrent downloads.
- You know the tech market has hit rock bottom when…
Geek Media Round-Up: October 16, 2008
Art
- Ueba has a photo gallery of an Incredible Little Mech Sculpture.
Comics
- Nosedigg looks at How Super Heroes Are Affected By The Economy.
Film
- io9 looks at the long history of Product Placement In Science Fiction Films.
- Panjiba shares a list of ten really excellent Sci-Fi Films you Should See (but probably haven’t).
Internet
- Head injury theater shares The Geek ABC’s, an Art Crash Noir project. “A is for alignment, which is why I stabbed you. B is for Blizzard, who swallows your Soul.”
- Princeton is hosting a humorous look at the potential for interstellar trade written by Nobel Memorial Prize winner Paul Krugman, with special emphasis on interest rates. [PDF]
- Topless Robot runs down The 10 Least Competent Time Travelers.
Literature
- Free Fiction: Read “Jewels of Gwahlur” by Robert E. Howard at ManyBooks.
- Free Fiction: Read “Suburban Alchemist” by Rob Sharp at The Future Fire.
- Interview: Barnes and Nobles interviews Neal Stephenson.
Video Games
- Popular Mechanics looks at The Four Best Video Game Cities, completely over-looking Racoon City, where you can loot and kill zombies all day long.
This Day in Geek History: October 16
1701
The Collegiate School of America, later Yale University, is founded by Congregationalists who are unhappy with the liberal bent of Harvard.
1843
Irish mathematician Sir William Rowan Hamilton conceives of the concept of quaternions, non-commutative extensions of complex numbers as he strolls along the Royal Canal in Dublin, Ireland with his wife. During the walk, he realizes that the theory of conjugate functions which he had been working on since the thirties could be solved using quadruplets rather than triplets. In his excitement over the realization, he carves the underlying equations in a nearby bridge.
1908
The first aeroplane flight in England is taken by Samuel Cody, a self-proclaimed American cowboy who had built his own machines, at Farnborough. Read more online.
1914
The first blood transfusion of World War I is performed on a wounded soldier when Isidore Colas gives his blood to Corporal Henri Legrain of 45th Infantry Corps of the French Army.
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