Wool book review – how self-published book made Howey a rich man

Wool, written by U.S. writer Hugh Howey, was self published through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing system (it can be purchased from Barnes and Noble too). The series, which can be purchased as a single omnibus edition, consists of six novellas – Wool, Proper Gauge, Casting Off, The Unraveling, The Stranded, and First Shift. Wool tells…

This is pretty friggin amazing. This robot, created by a guy from Japan, is made entirely of paper and a few sticks. The body, gears, and framework are made of paper, glued together for stability, and uses rubber bands for power. It features articulating ankles and piston-like legs that allow the robot to walk.

Funny computer programmer quotes

This is a collection of funny computer programming quotes. These are real quotes from real people.

Western Digital (WD) announced today the availability of its new WD RE 3.5 inch hard drive line. The drive uses No Touch technology which keeps the recording heads from touching the disk media and hence, less wear on recording heads and drive media surfaces. They offer up to 4TB storage space and are excellent for…

The April 11, 2012 series of Earthquakes in Indonesia may have been a bigger event than originally thought – they may have broken the tectonic plate. The largest of the quakes was a magnitude 8.7 offshore quake that produced stronger ground-shaking than any earthquake in history. Scientists found it odd that it triggered several earthquakes…

Hide your cherries and get out of the way, Pac-Man remote controlled racers have arrived. These iconic Pac-Man racers can move in all four directions and include authentic 8-bit Pac-Man sound effects (sound activated by a button on the side of the remote). The racers are weighted so they won’t topple over.

NASA has just said that the International Space Station debris avoidance maneuver for today was cancelled. NASA was concerned that debris from the Cosmos satellite and the Indian rocket debris would collide with the ISS.

Telvent, makers of critical electrical grid software, discovered on September 10, 2012 that it had suffered a breach into its network – a sophisticated hacker attack spanning its operations in the United States, Canada, and Spain. Project files were stolen and malware installed by the attackers. Digital fingerprints suggest the attacks are related to Comment…

Best Comic Book Covers – 2012-09-12

Here are the top comic book covers for the week of September 9, 2012.

Even More Geek Jokes

Still More Geek Jokes and one-liners: RAM disk is not an installation procedure… Shell to DOS…Come in DOS, do you copy? Shell to DOS… The truth is out there…anybody got the URL?… Smash forehead on keyboard to continue..