The Great Geek Manual

“All we have to do is keep him from going to the right… that’s it.”

Given the pronunciation similarity in sound between the name of New Jersey’s “Hoboken” and Ryu’s infamous catch phrase “hadouken,” I’m surprised someone didn’t do this sooner. This photo is a the sign for Interstate 76 East, and that combo is for Ryu’s fireball. Capcom should seriously look into the marketing possibilities.

Source: The Tanooki

Resources

100 Useful Social Sites for Every Kind of Job Seeker – Finding a great job opening in an economy where unemployment is skyrocketing is a tough task indeed. You can help pave the way to success by using some of the great tools and forums the web offers for those on the hunt for employment.

Awesome Highlighter – This is a web-based service that lets you highlight text on any web page, then provides you with a small link to that highlighted page. Great for research and note-taking.

Bubbl.us – Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online with mind maps that can be embedded in web pages.

Flame – A really nice web-based experimental painting program from Slovak animator and designer Peter Blaskovic. It’s really useful for making desktop wallpapers.

Kodu – I realize that this is going to be old news to most people, but I discovered Kodu after reading about a guy’s efforts to teach his young daughter how to program. It’s a programming environment designed to be accessible for children that’s almost entirely a visual event based system and requires basically zero effort to learn.

Packrati – Add links you tweet to your Delicious account, automatically tagging them with the hashtags you use in your tweet.
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Art

• Travis Pitts is selling Sci-Fi Jesus Fish stickers on Etsy.
• Unreality has posted A Wicked Gallery of Little Red Riding Hood Re-Imagined.
• Virtual Fun Zone has a gallery of Japanese Trains Decorated with Anime. I think that some of these would really spruce up New York subways.

Comics

• News: Patton Oswalt to write ‘Firefly’ comic book

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105 A.D.
In China, Ts’ai Lun, an official of the Han Dynasty Chinese Imperial Court, invents the world’s first paper from a mixture of bamboo, fish nets, mulberry, and rags. He will eventually become wealthy after he present his paper to the Emperor Han Ho Ti.

1702
The first regularly printed English-language newspaper, The Daily Courant is launched by Edward Mallet in London, England. The paper consists of a single sheet with two columns. Printed in the rooms above the White Hart pub on Fleet Street, the paper will run until 1735.

1811
The Luddite riots break out in Nottingham, England. Driven by poverty and insufferable living conditions, a group of laborers launch an assault on the factory where they work, destroying sixty-three lace and stocking manufacturing frames that threaten to render many of their jobs unnecessary. The outbreak occurs in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars, when starvation and unemployment are running rampant across Europe. Over the next three weeks, armed mobs of Luddites will continue to root out the frames, destroying two hundred of the devices in all.
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…the ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside of popular culture and the practical ideals of democracy. This is also why society as a whole has no control over technological developments. And this is one of the gravest threats to democracy in the near future. It is, then, imperative to develop a democratic technological culture.

- Paul Virilio in “Ctheory Interview With Paul Virilio: The Kosovo War Took Place In Orbital Space,” October 18, 2000.

Hardcover Book Releases

Fang: A Maximum Ride Novel by James Patterson
Hiveborn (The Earthborn Wars) by Paul Collins
The Midnight Mayor: Or, the Inauguration of Matthew Swift by Kate Griffin
The River Kings’ Road: A Novel of Ithelas by Liane Merciel
The Universal Essence by Dean Lincoln Minton

Paperback Book Releases

Caliphate by Tom Kratman
How to Make Friends with Demons by Graham Joyce
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The Economist has run a great article on the proliferation of data being generated by the information economy and the challenges it poses. It’s a brief but thought-provoking piece entitled Data, data everywhere written by Kenneth Cukier.

The world contains an unimaginably vast amount of digital information which is getting ever vaster ever more rapidly. This makes it possible to do many things that previously could not be done: spot business trends, prevent diseases, combat crime and so on. Managed well, the data can be used to unlock new sources of economic value, provide fresh insights into science and hold governments to account.