Here at [GAS], we think that steampunk devices are among the sexiest gadgets you can own. I mean, just check out this awesome steampunk USB drive, it looks amazing, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, this thing has been hand-crafted, so there’s no way you’ll be able to put your hands on one… unless you have the skills […]
You can only imagine how long this meeting was. After decades of wrangling, the big brains at the Department of Defense finally got around to defining exactly what is meant by the term “cyberspace.” This was distributed in an official memorandum at the Pentagon. All I can say is “It’s about time!” The definition: I […]
By Mark O’Neill There are a lot of crap websites on the net that I wouldn’t miss for an instant if they disappeared. But if Open Culture vanished, I would be really hacked off. This is one website that I monitor constantly for updates because everything they post is interesting. I mean, look at what […]
By Mark O’Neill I had to laugh at this one because to me, being viewed as a geek is probably not the only reason people don’t continue to study mathematics. I didn’t continue it because I sucked at it and my maths teacher begged me to leave her class before I forced her into a […]
Look at what the brilliant minds at Disney / Pixar have been working on: A real, working version of WALL-E, the hero of the upcoming Disney movie going by the same name. I wonder how long it will take for this thing to end up on eBay?
By Mark O’Neill For those who have been waiting patiently for the upcoming X-Files movie trailer to come out, wait no more – it’s finally out. It doesn’t show that much but you do get to see some revealing scenes – including a gorgeous Gillian Anderson. Plus my girlfriend found David Duchovny quite delicious too apparently. […]
By Mark O’Neill Gizmodo is reporting that a MacGyver movie is in the works and I have to admit that at first my attitude was “so what?”. But when I told my girlfriend and her mother, they started shrieking with pleasure “MACGYVER!!!” (think of Homer’s sisters in “The Simpsons) and so I just had to […]
By Mark O’Neill The problem with getting your name about on the internet a bit is that you get some weird people constantly emailing you, giving you links and telling you to click on them. One such person was today who told me that he “liked my stuff on Geeks Are Sexy” and told me […]
By Lyle Bateman Contributing Writer, [GAS] On May 1st, 1964, in the early morning, the world’s first BASIC compiler began to run. The “Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code” was designed to sit on the opposite end of the programming spectrum from the more complex, scientifically based languages of the time, such as Fortran. It really […]
By Patrick Biz Contributing Writer, [GAS] There are a number of reasons why HDTV and home theater gear are now mainstream: prices of Plasmas and LCDs screens have dropped considerably; personal video recorders (PVR) have kicked VCRs out of the living room; the offering of HD channels is growing rapidly; and Blu-Ray has officially buried […]