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Geek Quote of the Day

May 17 2011 No Comment  21 views

You will be newbie forever. Get good at the beginner mode, learning new programs, asking dumb questions, making stupid mistakes, soliticting help, and helping others with what you learn (the best way to learn yourself).

      - Kevin Kelly



Geek Media Round-Up: May 16, 2011

May 16 2011 No Comment  92 views

Art

Stay Puft S'more

  • 36 Epic Looking Sci-fi Artworks
  • BuzzFeed has posted a gallery of 15 Amazing Star Wars Costumes.
  • Game of Thrones Monopoly board

Cross-Media

  • Ten of the best Aliens in science fiction

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Geek Media Round-Up: May 13, 2011

May 16 2011 No Comment  101 views

Art

Hansel and Greedo

  • 20 Insanely Creative Bookshelves
  • Mario Mapped out with Math Function
  • Megan Lara’s Nerd Nouveau
  • Portal 2 Propaganda Posters
  • Science fiction films as Tintin covers

Comics

  • How To Find Comic Books That You’ll Love
  • Listverse picks the Top 10 Badass Comic Book Villains

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Geek Quote of the Day

May 16 2011 No Comment  27 views

If you are in school today the technologies you will use as an adult tomorrow have not been invented yet. Therefore, the life skill you need most is not the mastery of specific technologies, but mastery of the technium as a whole — how technology in general works. I like to think of this ability to deal with any type of new technology as techno-literacy.

      - “Techno Life Skills” by Kevin Kelly, April 28, 2011.

Geek Quote of the Day

May 15 2011 No Comment  29 views

Individual differences and the free exchange of ideas are necessary to human intelligence because it’s easy for a human to get stuck on one idea and then rationalize away all opposition. One scientist has one idea, but then gets stuck on it and becomes an obstacle to the next generation of scientists. A Friendly seed AI doesn’t rationalize. Rationalization of mistaken ideas is a complex functional adaptation that evolves in imperfectly deceptive social organisms.

Likewise, there are limits to how much experience any one human can accumulate, and we can’t share experiences with each other. There’s a limit to what one human can handle, and so far it hasn’t been possible to build bigger humans…

      - “Creating Friendly AI 1.0″ by Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2001.

Tech Round-Up: May 14, 2011

May 14 2011 No Comment  41 views

Utilities and Resources

  • doubleTap – with this Android app, music can be shared just by tapping two phones together. From doubleTwist at Google IO.
  • Grabachat – a face-to-face social networking site that connects people with similar interest, hobbies and experiences to chat and share ideas via webcam.
  • Ninite – streamlines the process of setting up a new PC but letting you download all of the most used utilities in one place AND helping you remove all the extra junk that comes pre-installed with new computers.
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Geek Quote of the Day

May 14 2011 No Comment  0 views

Leisure is essential to civilization, and in former times leisure for the few was only rendered possible by the labors of the many. But their labors were valuable, not because work is good, but because leisure is good. And with modern technique it would be possible to distribute leisure justly without injury to civilization.

      - “In Praise of Idleness” by Bertrand Russell, 1932.

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