Tag: humor
"Weird Al" Yankovic – It’s All About The Pentiums
It is the Christmas Season and I had a moment of nostalgia when I saw this video cross my line of sight and heard the modem dial for AOL. I remember my ISDN line, first in the state of Oregon.
50 Things a Geek Should Know [Infographic]
In days of yore, it was easy to spot a geek. We were the ones inside on a sunny day indulging our unfashionable obsessions to the detriment of our social standing. Now, thanks to the arrival of “geek chic”, what would once result in ridicule is now considered “really cool”.
So, to separate the programmers from the poseurs, and the haxxors from the hipsters, here follows a list of things every geek should know…
Movies as code – Free your coding mind…
What would movies look like if they were entered as code? Movies As Code has an answer.
"Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself."
Morpheus, The Matrix
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Geek Clock
From GeekCook comes this clock for Geeks. If you haven’t used Google Translate, install the Google Toolbar, turn on Translate and translate this Chinese site into English. The translation will get you through a purchase; however, you will spot the challenges in translating a web page. Think what ThinkGeek would look like translated by Google into Chinese.
Related articles
- My Gengo – Translation by People, Not Computers (crenk.com)
- Google launches universal translation tool for web publishers (downloadsquad.com)
- Google Toolbar’s Improved Web Page Translation (googlesystem.blogspot.com)