The Great Geek Manual

Resources

CutMP3 – A online tool that will be a great help to anybody looking to cut off a portion from an MP3 audio file. Give the site a try and drop a comment to let us know what you think.

Gazelle – Don’t throw out your gadgets, use this great service for the green-minded geek! Gazelle pays the shipping for you to send in your gadgets for them to be recycled.

Launchy 2.5 – This superior alternative to Window’s start menu indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!

Mozilla Weave – A useful Firefox extension that keeps your browser’s profile (bookmarks, passwords, preferences, history, and open tabs) synced across multiple machines. Read the rest of this entry » » »

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “Boatman’s Holiday” by Jeffrey Ford at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “The Hand You’re Dealt” By Frank Oreto at Pseudopod.
• Listen to “Honored Guest” by Ellen Kushner at PodCastle.
• Listen to “The Love Quest of Smidgen the Snack Cake” By Robert T. Jeschonek.
• Listen to “My Symantha by Doug McIntire at Dunesteef.
• Listen to “The Observer” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch at Drabblecast.
• Listen to “The Skull” at by Philip K. Dick at LibriVox.org.

Comics and Graphic Novels

• Just a reminder. Marvel is still offering 400 Complete Series available to read online for free. There’s a lot of good stuff in the list.

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Art

• Artist Camilla d’Errico has a gallery of new steampunk-esque paintings of helmet girls for the Mondo Bizarro in Rome.
• Fandomania has a gallery of Prince of Persia fan art from around Deviant Art.
• Smashing Apps has posted a gallery of Absolutely Amazing Concept Art That Make You Say Wow.

Film

• Interview: George A. Romero asks Vanity Fair, “Who Says Zombies Eat Brains?”
• Hulu has Recently Added Movies RSS Feed (minus the trailers).
• Moviefone shines a spotlight on some underrated movie battles it believes deserve wider recognition in 5 Best Fight Scenes You’ve Never Seen.
• Shot in the Head names 5 Great Foreign Zombie Movies.

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Switch is a short film that Tyson Hesse of Boxer Hockey created for his graduating thesis at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Found via Neatorama.

According to comments, this is a photo taken of Danah Boyd taken at ROFLcon. Found via Superpoop.

1790
President George Washington signs the first federal Copyright Act in the United States into law. The law provides a term of fourteen years of protection for books, charts, and maps written by U.S. citizens that can be renewed for a second term of fourteen years, but it requires a record of the work to be presented prior to its publication to the local district court where the author or proprietor resides.

1879
The first electric railway is launched during the Berlin Trades Exposition.

1927
The last Ford Model T rolls off the world-renowned assembly line, which will ultimately produce 15,007,003 vehicles over the course of its operation.
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The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. It offers the potential for humans to learn new ways of thinking and organizing social structures.

- Douglas Engelbart

1783
The first daily paper in the U.S., The Pennsylvania Evening Post, is first published by Benjamin Towne in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1876
Thomas Edison is granted three patents for “an Improvement in Duplex Telegraphs” which allows a transmitted signal be sent over the same wire as incoming signals. (US No. 178,221, -2, -3)

1896
The first documented auto accident in history occurs in New York City when a Duryea Motor Wagon, driven by Henry Wells of Springfield, Massachusetts collides with a bicycle ridden by New York native Evylyn Thomas.
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