Category Archives: Culture
Psychiatrist pushes for internet mental illness recognition
By Mark O’Neill Bad news geeks. A psychiatrist is pushing for internet addiction – “excessive gaming, sexual pre-occupations and e-mail/text messaging” – to be classified as a mental illness which means the most serious cases could warrant medication or even a stay in a hospital, like all those gamers in China. Do you get broadband […]
Take the television but leave the Internets alone!
By Mark O’Neill A new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project has found that more Americans would prefer to give up the television than lose their internet connection by a margin of 45% to 43%. It also found that losing their internet connection for a sustained period of time would make people […]
Arthur C. Clarke: The day the future died
By Lyle Bateman Contributing Writer, [GAS] “The golden age of science fiction” is a term used to describe a particularly fertile period in science fiction, when old conventions of “the space western” were challenged with new ideas, new themes, and new energy. There are many names associated with that period—Heinlein Bradbury and Asimov, among others—but […]
Installing a PC in the kitchen – going too far?
By Mark O’Neill I live in a pretty neat place. My girlfriend and I live in a small apartment which is connected to her parents house. Our apartment and their house is completely connected by a network that runs our internet, telephones and satellite TV. When I first moved here years ago, I thought that […]
First Life, Second Life, Third Life, more
My comedy and geek sides have been meshing a bit more lately. About a month ago, I popped into Second Life again, after trying it a couple of times a year or so ago and giving up on it. At the time I first signed up, the interface was very primitive, and truth be told, I was never able to quite “see the point” of the game …
You’re an internet addict. Yes, you.
By Ilya Kochanov Contributing Writer, [GAS] According to some doctors with big weird eyebrows and some kind of doctorate, excessive internet usage might soon be classified as an actual mental disease. Never mind the fact that people, such as myself, earn money by going online. Or that corporations, banks, and schools rely heavily on the […]
The Incredible Hulk is coming back to the big screen
By Mark O’Neill “Don’t make me angry….you won’t like me when I’m angry” Those words sum up my childhood in a flash. When I wasn’t watching Knight Rider, I was watching David Banner go all green in the Incredible Hulk, smashing things up and making reporter Jack McGee wet himself. So when Ang Lee brought […]
Geek Fashion from MoMa: The Icon Watch
Being a sexy geek includes sporting the latest in computer-oriented fashion as often as possible. Everyone knows the Mac watch icon. The pesky bugger constantly popped up whenever you needed to be doing something, asking you to kindly wait about four hours until your task was completed. MoMa Design has decided to bring this icon […]
The best geek hotels in the world
By Mark O’Neill I don’t like to go on holiday much these days for a variety of reasons, one of them being that if I am offline for more than a hour I break out in a cold sweat. So an article on the best geek hotels in the world caught my eye because they […]