This must be one of the best Darth Vader mash-ups I’ve seen since we’ve posted the one where our dark friend plays at being a smartass. Enjoy!
(via Neatorama)
The Song Remains the Same, but now you can download it
By Sterling Camden
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
Hey fellas, have you heard the news? If it’s been a long time since you rock and rolled, then get ready for a whole lotta love. Led Zeppelin has finally decided to open their entire music catalogue to a number of online digital distributors.
Verizon wireless will provide full song downloads and ring tones on its mobile phone service. Hmm… picture yourself in an important meeting with upper management, and your mobile phone (which you forgot to turn off) suddenly breaks into The Lemon Song: “I should have quit you… long time ago!”
Well, I think it’s great that Page and Plant have conceded the inevitable. Hopefully this will allow even more people to enjoy the music of one of the greatest bands ever. As for me, I’ve had the CD boxed set for years (thanks again, Jim) — but now all you downloaders will be able to bring it on home.
Operating System Overview: Quick Notes on the Biggest
Have you ever been talking to another geek, and they mentioned on Operating System you hadn’t heard about, or you just wanted to prove how geeky you are by listing a large variety of operating systems and its variants? Well, this post will help you fill your brain with OS’s.
I won’t be covering every operating system, nor every variant under the sun, but rest assured, if you learn this list, you will have the essentials locked in that brain of yours.
Taking base jumping to extremes
If you ever thought that sky divers were mad, I’m sure you’ve never seen winged base jumpers in action. Check this out.
Girls gone wild…er, geek!
Actually, these girls do go wild, but not in ways some of you would expect. Now please, have a little respect gentlemen.
I’m not usually a fan of podcasts, except maybe for what Mark at 45n5 and David at xfep do. Until now, these 2 shows were pretty much the only ones I was listening to, but things just changed today when I stumbled on the Girls gone Geek podcast. Listening to a bunch of chicks geek out is just refreshing and wonderful… wonderful apart for the high-pitch laughing in the intro. I swear, while hitting the play button on the podcast widget, my eardrums almost exploded! In spite of this, these girls give an excellent show. Here are a few things they cover in their latest episode:
- Identity theft
- Beauty tips (Ok, that’s clearly not for me)
- Editorial on HD video
- Teaching programming to our kids (mine are still a little young for this)
- Self-sustainable house technology
The Girls gone geek podcast will probably be of interest to most of you, but I think the female part of our audience will enjoy it more. Being named Geeks are Sexy, we couldn’t pass the occasion to give a little love to a bunch of fellow geekettes in need of a good audience.
So head over to girlsgonegeek.tv and give their podcast a try. I’m sure you’ll all enjoy it.
The Security Van Scam
In this segment of The Real Hustle, the Hustlers dress themselves as security van guards and walk into a store to collect the shop’s weekly earnings. Sometimes, being dressed for the part and being at the right place and the right time is all it takes for crooks to get away with a huge profit.
Facebook Worth $100 Billion?
By David Peralty
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
Do you think Facebook is stupid, or that it only appeals to the lowest common denominator of the people on the Internet? Would it then shock you that some people are already saying that the Facebook platform may one day be worth upwards of $100 billion dollars?
From Scobleizer
At the Graphing Social Patterns conference there was a guy who said that Facebook was worth $100 billion. He was properly derided, in my view, by most of the people at the conference.
But, one of his arguments was “would you have said that Google wasn’t going to be worth $100 billion back in 1999?” Yeah, I probably would have said you were smoking good crack if you told me that back then.
Problem is that if you said that back then you would actually have been right.
Now, in eight years will Facebook be worth $100 billion?
Personally, while I use Facebook, and it has become an e-mail replacement for my wife to communicate to her friends, I really hope that the service is eventually superseded by something better, more fulfilling, and with less of the application garbage that Facebook has allowed to crud up people’s profiles.
Sorry all, it was only fun when it was new. I really don’t want to be a vampire and bite people.
Pamcakes from 1938 Media gets it right in her recent video. All of these networks lack the ability to compartmentalize your life online, like it is offline. I don’t want my co-workers to see my status is “I am sick of work”. I don’t want my friends to get social media promotion requests.
What do you think, will Facebook become a $100 billion dollar company over the coming years, or is doomed to be replaced much like MySpace was?
Thursday afternoon fun: Manliest commercial ever made
For all you guys out there, please remember that If hockey jungle sex threeway, you could sex cars giant breasts, and with power tools sex sports beef jerky miss november, that could mean golf scotch fried bologna sandwiches. Enjoy the show!
Nintendo Launches MyWiiStory.com
By David Peralty
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
First Nintendo shuts down their forums, saying that they will bring something better out, and then they launch My Wii Story? Seriously!?
While I love the Wii, despite not being able to play it often due to my wife loving it even more than me, I don’t see this as a real community effort, but instead another way for them to spin their wares to a wide variety of people.
I know the Wii is for casual gamers, but I’d really rather them bring back their forums. Where is a die-hard Wii fan supposed to communicate with other die-hard fans? My Wii Story doesn’t seem like that platform, but judge for yourself. Here are some details from Nintendo’s press release, “It’s a place where Wii owners and their friends and family have been gathering to post real-life anecdotes about the way that Wii has changed their social dynamic or even their opinions about video games. Men and women, young and old, kids and grandparents — people of all types have posted anecdotes, photos and videos of their experiences with Wii.”
This definitely isn’t what I had in mind for a Nintendo Wii community. Back to the drawing board Nintendo.
Crysis to Require a Monster Computer
With everyone looking forward to what should be one of the most beautiful video games, Crysis, I was wondering if I would be able to play it when it came out, and much to my surprise, the required and recommended specifications have just been released, and while I do have a system that meets the minimum requirements, I am a bit behind on the gear needed to meet the recommended system requirements.
Minimum System Requirements
OS – Windows XP or Windows Vista
Processor – 2.8 GHz or faster (XP) or 3.2 GHz or faster* (Vista)
Memory – 1.0 GB RAM (XP) or 1.5 GB RAM (Vista)
Video Card -NVIDIA GeForce 6800GT 256 MB / ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (X800 Pro for Vista)
Hard Drive – 12GB Free Space
Recommended System Requirements
OS – Windows XP / Vista
Processor – Intel Core 2 DUO @ 2.2GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+
Memory – 2.0 GB RAM
GPU – NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS/640 or similar
Does your system meet the minimum requirements? How about the recommended requirements? Are games starting to ask us to drop too much money to keep up with the visuals they want to push to us?
I am not really a console gamer, but these types of requirements mean that I will be playing my Xbox 360 until the recommended video cards come down in price.
source: 1up.com