The Great Geek Manual

NewsHour Science Correspondent Miles O’Brien asks how close are we to being replaced by robots? The answer is closer than you think. Read the transcript at PBS.

I’m not usually one for posting music videos, but this is the funniest programming song I’ve heard since Code Monkey. It comes from the Usability, uniPaaS, uNameIt blog, in case you’re wondering why it hawks such a specific software product right in the middle of the song. It’s still funny.

This is just amazing. Forget information and databases. The future is all about computation – what conclusions our computers can arrive at on their own.

This is a beautiful infographic of popular website emerging across the web. Click it to see a larger version.

I can’t say that I see much use for it, but it certainly is engrossing. After I first saw it, I spent quite a while searching it for site and people I equate with the internet. It’s better than a Where’s Waldo poster.

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Source: Found via Miss Geeky

This is a guest post from laptopLogic.com – make sure to check out their big selection of laptop reviews where you can find your ultimate inexpensive laptop.

With the Kindle 2 coming out, there’s a mass flurry over eBooks once again. The idea of carrying a digital library in ones pocket is absolutely thrilling to some (and sacrilege to others).

Who wants to spend hundreds of dollars on an ebook reader, though? Do you read enough books in a year to justify that cost? Assuming you spend a ‘mere’ $200 on an eReader, you could by 33 $5.99 paperbacks–or almost three books a month every month. Do you read that often?

If you’ve already got a smartphone of some sorts (or an audio player that is similar, a la iPod Touch), then you’ve already got the hardware to make your own eReader. With a few simple steps, you can have your own pocket library for less than $20.
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Over at PerlMonks, a user going by the handle Falkkin proposed to his girlfriend, Vortacist, who turns out to be a first-year robotics Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon. Yet another example of Geek Love.

Source: Perl Monks via Greg Laden

This physics engine from Umeå University is seriously entertaining. There’s no objective, but watching it’s effects at work is likely to eat up a good piece of your day.
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