By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] Well you could ask our French-speaking blog boss, Yan, for his take…but why waste a perfect opportunity to watch a viral video? This crazy song was written by Adriano Celantano in 1972 to show English-speakers what they sound like to un-comprehending foreigners. ย If you kind of zone out […]
Well, it’s December, and for many of you (not me – I’m in Georgia!), the weather outside is frightful. Which means that it’s time for some potentially geeky art projects of the snowy variety. After all, snowmen are to winter as jack-o-lanterns are to autumn. So if you were looking for some ideas for your […]
A few weeks ago, I told you guys our site would be featured for our teapot blowing article on a major British show. Well folks, the show aired yesterday, but I was kind of disappointed by the exposure the blog got. It looks like they saved the html file of the article locally, removed the […]
So, you’ll soon be hosting a holiday party and are looking for a way to entertain your guests? Why not dazzle them with a few science tricks? The following video will give you plenty of ideas about what you can do to make a potentially boring night into a fun-filled one. Thanks Rob!
There’s really no age to love the muppets! Enjoy everyone!
We’ve posted videos of beatboxers a few times here on [GaS], but now, let us present you with something a little different, a fluteboxer, someone who plays the flute while beatboxing at the same time. [Via Videosift]
If you were to transcribe every word you saw or heard during a week, the result would be longer than War and Peace. That’s one of the statistics thrown up by a report that finds the average person now reads three times as much as their 1980s counterpart, thanks mainly to computers in general and […]
The British government has confirmed it will introduce a tax on phone lines, designed to fund expansion of broadband services across the vast majority of the country. But the electoral timetable makes it questionable how long the tax would apply for, if at all. The aim of the tax is to subsidize extending broadband to […]
By Natania Barron Contributing Writer, [GaS] Share Unfortunately, though the world might be getting more and more geek friendly by the minute, being a geek girl is still difficult. So I’m appealing to you, Geeks Are Sexy readers, to consider a few things when approaching us in the, um, wild. I’m drawing on real experience […]
Modern communications technology is often blamed for supposed declining standards in literacy. But a British study finds children who make regular use of social networking tools are more likely to be confident about their written communication. The study by the National Literacy Trust found some seemingly obvious patterns, such as the fact that children who […]