The Great Geek Manual

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• 10 Geeky Bento Box Designs
• All the things your grandmother never told you about social media and the Internets. Somethings you just have to learn on your own, I spose.
• Check out this huge LEGO Christmas tree.
• ‘Geek The Halls’ geeky craft fair is this weekend in Portland, OR
• Russian Gaming Propaganda Posters
• There’s an ongoing project to create printable buildings based on Sim City 2000. You can download the files at the link. Via these sites.

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1927
The first Ford Model A automobiles are unveiled and sold at New York City’s Waldorf Hotel and in thirty-five other cities around the U.S., Canada, and Europe. The Phaeton sells for US$395 and the Tudor Sedan sells for US$495.

1942
A team led by physicist Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois as part of the Manhattan Project.
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Don’t tell me nature isn’t a miracle. Don’t tell me the world isn’t a fairytale. Anyone who hasn’t realised that, may never understand until the fairytale is just about to end. Then there is one final chance to tear off the blinkers, a last chance to rub your eyes in amazement, a final opportunity to abandon yourself to the world you are bidding farewell to and leaving.

- The Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder, 2004.

1877
Construction begins of a working prototype of a phonograph from a set of drawings made by Thomas Edison.

1835
Hans Christian Andersen publishes his first book of fairy tales.

1878
A telephone is first installed in The White House, in Washington D.C., by Alexander Graham Bell himself, for the use of President Rutherford B. Hayes administration. The first call made on the telephone is between Hayes and Bell, thirteen miles away. The first words he speaks into the phone are, “Please speak more slowly.”
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One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The tale is the map that is the territory; you must remember this.

- American Gods by Neil Gaiman, 2001.