We present a collection of Geeky jokes – Part III.
Amazon opens online Halloween Store featuring everything under the sun that is Halloween related
Amazon has opened a new Amazon Halloween Store featuring masks, candy, home decorations, arts and crafts, special effects makeup, and even spooky tools. The Halloween Store sells costumes for men, women, kids, babies, and pets. Below is a sampling of goods.
Andrew Moore photography shows eerie decay of Detroit city
It looks like something out of The Walking Dead. Detroit, a U.S. city that is decaying before our eyes, looks like its habitants simply vanished into thin air leaving behind a magnificent city that now resembles a war zone. No longer the Motor City of boom-time industry, the city of Detroit has fallen into an…
Interesting look at retro (and pre-retro) calculators and calculating machines of yesteryear
The first known aid to calculations was the Abacus, used by Sumerians and Egyptians earlier than 2,000 BC (with the possible exception of the Antikythera mechanism). By 1642, the mechanical calculator was invented by Blaise Pascal. By 1902, we had a pushbutton calculator in the form of the Dalton Adding Machine. Here is a pictorial…
Horror: Camera inside mussel shell shows what it’s like to be eaten alive by a starfish
This time lapse video is worthy of any horror show I’ve ever seen. They took a small camera and placed it inside the shell of a mussel. From the camera placed inside the mussel shell, you watch as the starfish then ejects its stomach into the mussel shell and eats it alive leaving nothing but…
Say it isn’t so – no microSD nor removable battery on upcoming LG Optimus Nexus?
More rumors leaked today about LG’s Optimus Nexus, the Nexus phone that LG is rumored to be making for Google. The Nexus smartphone is pretty close to LG’s Optimus G device but some of the spec changes are pretty shocking.
Funny Google Easter Eggs
Google has a great sense of humor and allows their developers to occasionally put Easter eggs in the search results (in addition to just about every other product they own). Here are a few of the funniest Google Easter eggs. Note: some of these require you run Chrome browser and some expire or only working…
The Grand Canyon’s rock record is missing 1.2 billion years of history
Called “The Great Unconformity”, the Grand Canyon has a 1.2 billion year gap in the rock record. Above the gap is 500 million-year-old sandstone (Cambrian age), a time of billions of shelled marine creatures. Below the gap is metamorphic rock of the Slatherian period aged 1.75 billion years where no fossils exist at all. But…
Archaeologists resume hunt where two thousand year old computing device (Antikythera Mechanism) was found in 1901
Scientists from the USA and Greece are returning to the site where the Antikythera Mechanism, the world’s oldest computing device, was found in 1901. The Antikythera Mechanism was an apparatus of interlocking gears that was dated to 100 BC.
Apple honors Steve Jobs on one-year anniversary of his death, with home page video and letter from Tim Cook
Apple today replaced their home page with a 2 minute video featuring Steve Jobs stills and notable quotes. Below is the obituary that was published by CNET on the day of his death.
