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## Posts

- [Creating Supercut Videos with Python](https://www.geeked.info/creating-supercut-videos-with-python/) - Videogrep: Automatic Supercuts with Python Videogrep is a python script that searches through dialog in videos and then cuts together a new video based on what it finds. Basically, it’s a command-line “supercut” generator. The code is here on github. More explanation and examples can be found on Sam Lavigne's blog post.
- [Botanical Art Above the Black Rock Desert](https://www.geeked.info/botanical-art-above-the-black-rock-desert/) - With Burning Man quickly approaching again this year, the thought of art presented upon the canvas of the vast Black Rock Desert is in the minds of many people. However botanical artist Makoto Azuma thought art should take place not on the playa but 100,000ft above the Black Rock Desert. With the help of a
- [The Missoula Fire Lab](https://www.geeked.info/the-missoula-fire-lab/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnvWW4kYhnk The Missoula Fire Lab sounds like a place I'd love to work, or at least visit: The Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory staffs over 10 world renowned scientists in addition to wide-ranging and accomplished support personnel. The lab is equipped with state-of-the-art burn chambers, comprehensive laboratory facilities, extensive computing resources, and novel field instrumentation which
- [Building a Better Cat Bathroom](https://www.geeked.info/building-a-better-cat-bathroom/) - I've had cats for many years. This means I've had to deal with litter boxes for just as long. When you have one cat, it's not a big deal. However when you have three of them, like we do, the litter box challenges are greater. For years I dreamed about solving all of these challenges
- [List of New Facebook Genders](https://www.geeked.info/list-of-new-facebook-genders/) - Facebook has added support for non-binary genders! Hooray! It looks like a free-form field, but it actually only allows you to select from a list of almost 50 pre-defined genders. Here's that list: Agender Androgyne Androgynous Bigender Cis Cis Female Cis Male Cis Man Cis Woman Cisgender Cisgender Female Cisgender Male Cisgender Man Cisgender Woman
- [Websites as graphs](https://www.geeked.info/websites-as-graphs/) - Here's something that's kind of neat, representing websites as a graph of points. There's a nifty script that will make one for you by just providing it with a URL. Here is geeked.info (click to enlarge): You can also download the source code and run it on your local machine to create a larger, higher
- [How To Clean an Apple Aluminum Keyboard](https://www.geeked.info/how-to-clean-an-apple-aluminum-keyboard/) - My Apple keyboard gets awfully dirty over the years, but is built well enough to not need replacing. That means I end up with a grimy but functional keyboard. I decided it was finally time to clean my work keyboard since I hadn't in almost 4 years. How to clean it though? Quite simply, get
- [Go Splunk Yourself!](https://www.geeked.info/go-splunk-yourself/) - Full Disclaimer: I've been working at Splunk for close to 4 years now as a software engineer. For those that aren't familiar with Splunk, it's a tool intended to collect machine generated data (aka log files), index it, and allow you to search and report on it. Most companies use Splunk in their IT department
- [Quantified Hiking in Point Reyes](https://www.geeked.info/quantified-hiking-in-point-reyes/) - I spent the past weekend in the woods along the coast of California, away from the internet but still geeking out with more devices than I should have on the trail. The plan was to hike from the Education Center of Point Reyes down along the Coast Trail, and spend the night at Glen Camp.
- [Flying Ostrich Quadcopter](https://www.geeked.info/flying-ostrich-quadcopter/) - Perhaps the first flying ostrich? OstrichCopter was created by visual artist Bart Jansen and technical engineer Arjen Beltman. You might remember them as the ones also responsible for Orvillecopter (the flying taxidermal cat quadcopter) The ostrich, which probably dreamed of flying while alive, died of disease.
- [Turning Geolocation Data Into Music](https://www.geeked.info/turning-geolocation-data-into-music/) - If you've been tracking your own personal data for awhile like I have, you probably found yourself at one point asking, "Great, now what do I do with all of this?" If you're Brian House, the answer is: make a record. Brian collected a years worth of gelocation data through an iOS app called OpenPaths
- [Putting A Fitbit on My Cat](https://www.geeked.info/putting-a-fitbit-on-my-cat/) - I've been carrying a Fitbit around for 2+ years, generating all sorts of data as part of my ongoing preoccupation with self tracking. I'm not sure where the original idea came from, but somehow I got it into my head that my cat, Bunki, should join me on this quantified self journey. Perhaps it
- [Find the Name of Applications on iOS for Opening via SSH](https://www.geeked.info/find-the-name-of-applications-on-ios-for-opening-via-ssh/) - This is probably a post that will only be useful to a handful of people. Say you want to launch applications on an iPhone without actually touching the iPhone? Why? I don't care, you probably have your reasons. For me it's because I'm putting my old iPhone 4 in a dock permanently and want to
- [NeverWet means superhydrophobic cardboard](https://www.geeked.info/neverwet-means-superhydrophobic-cardboard/) - This cardboard hates water. This was my first test run with NeverWet to see how well it works. NeverWet is a superhydrophobic coating that can be applied to just about anything. It comes in a pair of spray cans and takes a few hours to fully dry. Then whatever you treated will never get wet.
- [Lifeloggers Documentary](https://www.geeked.info/lifeloggers-documentary/) - Memoto presents a short (23 minute) documentary on Lifeloggers. It's a great conversation with a number of the characters in the Quantified Self, Lifelogging, Self-Tracking, "Record All The Things!" movement. I couldn't help but smile when I saw Dave Asprey wearing a Splunk shirt. (Disclaimer: I work for Splunk and am using Splunk Storm to
- [How much ice does it take to fill a bath tub?](https://www.geeked.info/how-much-ice-does-it-take-to-fill-a-bath-tub/) - We're moving in a few weeks to a new house in San Francisco. Of course this means we had to throw a housecooling party at our current place before we could have a housewarming at the new place. I know, I know Party Laws are strict but you have to follow the rules. Over dinner
- [When am I most likely to sneeze?](https://www.geeked.info/when-am-i-most-likely-to-sneeze/) - Based on two and a half months of logging using Biologger and Splunk Storm it turns out I sneeze the most between 1pm and 3pm and I've sneezed approximately 218 times since March 1st.
- [Detecting the Blue Angels with Splunk Storm](https://www.geeked.info/detecting-the-blue-angels-with-splunk-storm/) - For those that live in San Francisco (and the surrounding area), you know what Fleet Week sounds like. For those that don't live around here, it sounds like incredibly loud low flying fighter jets buzzing the city for a couple hours each day for almost a week. Specifically it's usually the Blue Angels practicing for
- [FireHero 3: Christmas Special](https://www.geeked.info/firehero-3-christmas-special/) - I know the holidays are almost over (we still have my birthday!) but I had to share this video of Chris Marion's latest revision of Fire Hero 3. I've been chatting with Chris off an on over the last 2 years about fire art, and how Interpretive Arson/Ardent Heavy Industries has gone about building and
- [Raspberry PI: Add Multiple WiFi Access Points](https://www.geeked.info/raspberry-pi-add-multiple-wifi-access-points/) - I don't know about you, but I can't remember the last time I had to configure wireless access from the commandline on a Linux machine. When I bought my Raspberry Pi, I also bought an Edimax EW-7811Un Wireless Adaptor. It's super tiny, and provides wireless access to the Raspberry PI without adding anything bulky hanging
- [Burning Man 2012 Satellite Image](https://www.geeked.info/burning-man-2012-satellite-image/) - Check out GeoEye‘s annual high resolution picture of Burning Man 2012 from the sky. Click the image for the larger resolution (8.3MB) image. Check out Burning Man Satellite Images from other years from GeoEye
- [Burning Man 2011 GeoEye Satellite Image](https://www.geeked.info/burning-man-2011-geoeye-satellite-image/) - Check out GeoEye's annual high resolution picture of Burning Man from the sky, taken on Thursday, September 1st, 2011. See if you can find your camp! Click here for full size image (13MB). Check out Burning Man Satellite Images from other years
- [Sunrise Time-lapse from the Burning Man Webcam in Gerlach, NV](https://www.geeked.info/sunrise-time-lapse-from-the-burning-man-webcam-in-gerlach-nv/) - Source images are from the Burning Man office webcam Taken on the morning of Sunday, August 25th. The gates opened later in the evening that day.
- [Surviving the Dust At Burning Man](https://www.geeked.info/surviving-the-dust-at-burning-man/) - Almost every year, a few weeks before Burning Man, word starts coming back from the playa that "it's going to be dusty this year". Most people that have been to the playa shrug this off with "it's dusty every year". This year however is a year to remind people that sometimes dusty doesn't just mean
- [I love the Garmin eTrex Vista HCx and Geotagging](https://www.geeked.info/i-love-the-garmin-etrex-vista-hcx-and-geotagging/) - I love GPS receivers. There's something great about knowing exactly where you are, plus being able to track where you've been. They come in handy while hiking, walking around a city, or driving. And I have a very long history with these things. I used to have a carputer that combined a GPS receiver with
- [2013 SXSWi Hotels Sold Out](https://www.geeked.info/2013-sxswi-hotels-sold-out/) - When SXSW 2012 registration opened a few days ago (July 30th), I was asked, "Does SXSW ever sell out?". My answer was, "No, but the hotels do". The first year I attended SXSWi I decided to go at the last minute. The biggest challenge was finding a hotel room even remotely close to the Convention
- [Driving Across the Playa](https://www.geeked.info/driving-across-the-playa/) - A bit of a meditative drive across the open playa of the Black Rock Desert. This was in the north on the western side as we headed up towards Double Hot Hot Springs. Roughly around this area. You can even make out the "road" we eventually find towards the end. Thanks to a very dry
- [2012 SF Marathon in 9 Minutes](https://www.geeked.info/2012-sf-marathon-in-9-minutes/) - 20120729 - San Francisco Marathon from Ed Hunsinger on Vimeo. A time-lapse video of the 2012 San Francisco Marathon as it ran through the Mission somewhere between miles 20 and 21. Thousands of people sprinted, jogged, shuffled, and walked down Guerrero St over the course of 4 hours. The video above starts with the first
- [Quick Reviews of GoPro Accessories](https://www.geeked.info/quick-reviews-of-gopro-accessories/) - As a birthday present this year, my wife got me a GoPro HD Hero2 camera that I had been wanting for quite some time. Over the past couple of months I've spent quite a bit of time with it, as well as money on accessories. After answering questions from other people interested in the camera
- [Gary Connery Successfully Lands Wingsuit Flight Without a Parachute](https://www.geeked.info/gary-connery-successfully-lands-wingsuit-flight-without-a-parachute/) - After over a month of delays, Gary Connery's wingsuit jump finally happened Wednesday, May 23rd! Everything appears to have gone well and the first video has been posted. This makes him the first person to land a wingsuit flight without a parachute. Well at least the first to land successfully and unharmed in this often
- [Gary Connery to Make the First Attempt to Land a Wingsuit Flight](https://www.geeked.info/gary-connery-to-make-the-first-attempt-to-land-a-wingsuit-flight/) - I've been fascinated with wingsuit flying ever since the first video I saw a couple years back. I've posted about wingsuit flying previously, and I can't begin to count the number of times I've shared videos like Jeb Corliss's Grinding the crack with people. When watching videos of BASE jumpers with wingsuits I always have
- [How To Not Be A Douchebag at SXSW Wrap-Up](https://www.geeked.info/how-to-not-be-a-douchebag-at-sxsw-wrap-up/) - Image by Scott Beale The first ever "How To Not Be A Douchebag at SXSW" session went incredibly well! Violet Blue, John Adams, and I led a Core Conversation this year at SXSW Interactive with the hopes that we would raise awareness and help with douchebaggery reduction. We had a full room with mostly newbies,
- [How To Not Be A Douchebag at SXSW - Friday, March 12th, 5pm](https://www.geeked.info/how-to-not-be-a-douchebag-at-sxsw-friday-march-12th-5pm/) - Ok, one last warning! Our "core conversation" on How To Not Be A Douchebag at SXSW is only a few days away. Violet Blue, John Adams, and I (along with insight from Ben Metcalfe) have put together what we think will be a a great panel. We're scheduled for Friday, March 12th at 5pm in
- [One on Highway 1 Time Lapse](https://www.geeked.info/one-on-highway-1-time-lapse/) - On Sunday I hopped in my car, attached my GoPro camera to the windshield and headed down Highway 1. For those not familiar with the area, Highway 1 winds down most of the coast of California and affords quite the view out across the Pacific Ocean as you wind around hills, fields, and cliffs. It's
- [Pyrotopia: A Fire Arts Festival for the East Coast](https://www.geeked.info/pyrotopia-a-fire-arts-festival-for-the-east-coast/) - Want to play Simon with fire, watch well-dressed performers twirl fire, or hear the crackle of a Tesla coil but are stuck on the East Coast? Well if you're anywhere near Pittsburgh you should go check out Pyrotopia on April 27th and 28th. It's not often that the east coast gets a fire art festival.
- [Largest Amateur Rocket Launches Successfully!](https://www.geeked.info/largest-amateur-rocket-launches-successfully/) - The non-profit, open source suborbital space endeavor out of Denmark known as Copenhagen Suborbitals had a successful launch of their rocket today. The rocket, designed to carry a human into suborbital space launched in a test run with a human dummy payload this time. As you can see it was a success, with the rocket
- [Lost Horizon Night Market: the Mission Impossible Truck](https://www.geeked.info/lost-horizon-night-market-the-mission-impossible-truck/) - Photo by Shalaco This past weekend the Lost Horizon Night Market came to West Oakland. Tucked away in an alleyway next to a concrete mill, trucks opened up to the in-the-know public and created new and different experiences for everyone that attended. For those that aren't familiar, the idea of the Lost Horizon Night Market
- [How I Did SXSW 2011](https://www.geeked.info/how-i-did-sxsw-2011/) - This was my third year at SXSW and I feel like I've really gotten the hang of it. Here are my notes from this year accompanied by some photos and videos. (All of my photos and videos are over on Flickr) Running a Panel: Last year I led the Core Conversation "How To Not Be
- [On Hiatus](https://www.geeked.info/on-hiatus/) - If you haven't noticed, this site hasn't been updated in awhile. It's because life has been happening. Got married, got a new job, traveling, large scale fire art, shenanigans and pranks, and more consumed most of 2010 for me. I'm not dead, just insanely busy. I'll eventually come back to posting here, but in the
- [DJ Shadow On Tesla Coils](https://www.geeked.info/dj-shadow-on-tesla-coils/) - Anyone that's peeked into my music collection knows I love DJ Shadow. And if you follow my Flickr stream, you know I spent Monday night checking out Omega Recoil's test of their tesla coil and that I dig tesla coils. What happens when you combine the two? Pure awesomeness. More info on Arc Attack, the
- [Crazy Autonomous Quadrotors](https://www.geeked.info/crazy-autonomous-quadrotors/) - We're all doomed if they ever become sentient and pissed off. via danger_ranger
- [DJ Shadow - Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain](https://www.geeked.info/dj-shadow-napalm-brainscatter-brain/) - There has been a song that has haunted me for awhile. One of those songs that you hear, but can never remember what album it is from. I'm generally terrible about song names, and when there are no lyrics, it's almost a waste of time to try to identify a song. But tonight I heard
- [HexaKopter: Awesome Times 6](https://www.geeked.info/hexakopter-awesome-times-6/) - MikroKopter - HexaKopter from Holger Buss on Vimeo. File this one under "Amazing Things I Want". The HexaKopter is the product of some brilliant Germans and is a partially autonomous helicopter * 6. In addition to being remote controlled, it has several modes that allow it to operate on it's own. It can maintain a
- [Multitetris - Cooperative Tetris Playing](https://www.geeked.info/multitetris-cooperative-tetris-playing/) - I love Tetris. If I had to count the number of hours I've spent playing this game, I'd probably exceed sys.maxint. Although in all those hours I never played it this way. Multitetris is a Python-based version of the classic game that allows for multiple players on a large multitouch console. It bends the rules
- [I Can Haz Douchebag Move?](https://www.geeked.info/i-can-haz-douchebag-move/) - So I run Geeky Tattoos. It's mostly a labor of love for body modification and geek culture. Awhile back I started watermarking images as I noticed that photos get posted and reposted around the internet and sooner or later attribution just stops. I watermark images so people know at least one place they can go
- [Video of San Francisco Before and After the Earthquake of 1906](https://www.geeked.info/video-of-san-francisco-before-and-after-the-earthquake-of-1906/) - I love old footage of the early 1900s, especially of San Francisco. You may have recognize part of the above video with an unknown filmmaker's trip down Market St from the Prelinger Archives. But I didn't know there was a second film taken of the same trip down Market St a year later, after the
- [No BME World Tour For Me](https://www.geeked.info/no-bme-world-tour-for-me/) - For those that hadn't heard through the Twitters and Facebooks and whatnot: Hey, I just wanted to say I think that you did a really awesome job and I really wanted to take you along but it just came down to my gut feeling on who I thought would work really well together and I
- [A Day in the Life of Ed: 2pir Testing](https://www.geeked.info/a-day-in-the-life-of-ed-2pir-testing/) - The following is my "extra credit assignment" for the BME World Tour. Thanks to everyone for their support, I'm one of the 9 finalists!! We were asked to do a video, photos, and blog post of our day in order to pick the final 4 (or 5!) people who get to travel the world. When
- [I'm a Finalist for the BME World Tour!](https://www.geeked.info/im-a-finalist-for-the-bme-world-tour/) - The short version: Holy crap, I'm one of 18 finalists in a contest to tour the world and meet/interview/photograph/video people involved in the body modification community. It's a trip of a lifetime. Please vote for me! The long version: So there's this website called BMEzine (or just BME) that you've probably heard of if you've
- [Help Save Defenestration, A Piece of San Francisco ](https://www.geeked.info/help-save-defenestration-a-piece-of-san-francisco/) - When I first moved to San Francisco, it wasn't long before I found myself in front of Defenestration, admiring the flying furniture. It was one of those things that made me go "wow, there's some really cool stuff in San Francisco, this city is great!" It wasn't until recently that I truly realized the size
- [Check out Zivity - 30 days for free](https://www.geeked.info/check-out-zivity-30-days-for-free/) - The internet is awash in adult content, we all know that. And there's a lot of just plain crap out there that was made to make a buck. But occasionally the adult content mixes with art and something great comes out of it. Zivity is one of those examples. For those not familiar, Zivity is
- [Avatar LARP](https://www.geeked.info/avatar-larp/) - It was only a matter of time, right? Pool Worldwide, a creative agency, takes us into the lives of some die-hard "Live Avatar Role Players" from Hometree, Wisconsin in this short documentary. via Danger Ranger
- [Large Gauge Ear Piercings + Hearing Aid](https://www.geeked.info/large-gauge-ear-piercings-hearing-aid/) - In the past, the handicaps of people were generally politely concealed and sometimes considered embarrassing. It makes me very happy that this is changing. Now there are people like Aimee Mullins in the spotlight. For those not familiar, Aimee Mullins lost her legs at birth due to fibular hemimelia. I highly recommend watching her TED
- [A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything (in Stop Motion)](https://www.geeked.info/a-brief-history-of-pretty-much-everything-in-stop-motion/) - For his final piece in an art course, Jamie Bell (an art student from the UK) made a flipbook video titled "A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything". It's comprised of 2100 pages of pen doodles and took roughly 3 weeks to complete. It chronicles several key moments in the history of the universe, including
- [Call the Mayor Day - Feb 9th, 2010](https://www.geeked.info/call-the-mayor-day-feb-9th-2010/) - I moved to San Francisco because of the art scene and the amount of all around fun you can have in this city. I now call SF my home for both me and my business. Unfortunately there is currently a "War on Fun" that is attacking the venues and events in our city. It is
- [Protesting the Westboro Baptist Church in San Francisco](https://www.geeked.info/protesting-the-westboro-baptist-church-in-san-francisco/) - I couldn't resist joining in the fun of an absurdist "counter protest" of the Westboro Baptist Church's protest in front of Twitter's office building. My sign: UPDATE: Sam? also got a shot with my "backup sign": God Hates Retweets. There were quite a few people with cameras there. Here are the ones I've found so
- [Join us on the SXSW Nerd Bird Flight](https://www.geeked.info/join-us-on-the-sxsw-nerd-bird-flight/) - SXSW Interactive 2010 is only a few weeks away. If you're like us, you're still procrastinating on buying plane tickets to Austin. If that's the case and you're flying from either San Francisco or Los Angeles, then you'll want to book the following flights on Southwest. We'll all meet up in Las Vegas for the
- [Mahalo Is Breaking Creative Commons And Their Own Rules](https://www.geeked.info/mahalo-is-breaking-creative-commons-and-their-own-rules/) - You would think that a site as "large" as Mahalo would be respectful of Creative Commons, as well as the quality of the information they are providing. Mahalo bills itself as "a human-powered search engine and a knowledge sharing service..." but it turns out they're using algorithms to provide some of this knowledge. Algorithms that
- [Thunder and Lightning in SF](https://www.geeked.info/thunder-and-lightning-in-sf/) - The way that Twitter blows up during large thunderstorms, you'd think that lightning and thunder in the Bay Area is rarer than earthquakes. Well, I'm not sure of the stats, but it just might be. Early this morning I woke up gained some semblance of consciousness as thunder rolled through San Francisco along with storms that have
- [SXSW 2010 Proposal Was Accepted!](https://www.geeked.info/sxsw-2010-proposal-was-accepted/) - I think it's safe to officially say that my proposal for SXSW 2010 has been accepted. "How To Not Be A Douchebag At SXSW" will be a core conversation at this year's South By Southwest. A huge thanks to everyone that voted in the PanelPicker (apparently we were pretty popular), and of course thanks to
- [Santa's Defense Forces Engage in Operation Yule Storm](https://www.geeked.info/santas-defense-forces-engage-in-operation-yule-storm/) - December 12th, 2009 - Santa's Defense Forces (consisting of the 12th Nutcracker Regiment, the 103rd Sleighborne Division, and the Sugar Plum Service) converged on San Francisco, CA. The primary purpose of the mission: to protect Santa during the annual Santacon (aka Santarchy) gathering in SF. Additional orders included protecting other high value individuals such as
- [How Registering a Domain Can Cost Almost $2,000](https://www.geeked.info/how-registering-a-domain-can-cost-almost-2000/) - or Why I Don't Recommend Anyone Use Go Daddy I register a lot of domains. In fact so many ( around 285 286) that I have my own disease. I generally use DomainSite and recommend them (even though they don't have an affiliate program). They're simple, to the point and don't have all the unnecessary
- [Sokushinbutsu, or How To Mummify Yourself in 4 Easy Steps](https://www.geeked.info/sokushinbutsu-or-how-to-mummify-yourself-in-4-easy-steps/) - Want to learn how to mummify yourself in 4 easy steps? We'll tell you how!
- [The Matrix Bullet Scene In Lego Stop Motion](https://www.geeked.info/the-matrix-bullet-scene-in-lego-stop-motion/) - I love stop motion and I love Legos. LegoMatrix put them together to recreate the classic roof-top bullet-time scene from The Matrix. The accuracy with which they've recreated this defining scene is amazing. They took each frame of the 44 seconds of this scene and recreated it with as much accuracy as Legos would allow,
- [Degraded Network Performance Mystery](https://www.geeked.info/degraded-network-performance-mystery/) - I bought a gigabit switch awhile back when I needed to replace an existing switch with something with more ports. I bought the DLink DGS-2208 8-port 10/100/1000mbps switch as it had great reviews for its price point. Here's my current network topology: Internet comes in from Comcast to a Linksys WRT54g v4 (10/100) wireless router
- [Flickr Blog This to a Wordpress Draft Post](https://www.geeked.info/flickr-blog-this-to-a-wordpress-draft-post/) - This is a boring geeky entry, but if you're looking for this info it might be helpful. I've started a new blog (yes, another one) called My Cat Is Broken. It's a collection of pics and videos of cats being, well broken. Usually it's our cats. Everyone knows that Flickr is a great place to
- [Help Support NIMBY!](https://www.geeked.info/help-support-nimby/) - NIMBY has been fighting a battle with the city of Oakland for quite some time now. It's not an easy battle, and as you can guess it's not a free one. While NIMBY makes some money via tenants paying rent, a large part of their fundraising comes from throwing events that the city is not
- [Journey to the End of the Night Halloween 2009](https://www.geeked.info/journey-to-the-end-of-the-night-halloween-2009/) - The Halloween edition of sf0's "Journey to the End of the Night" had a massive turn out. Well over 600 people showed up to play. There isn't a final count as we ran out of waivers and maps for everyone and only 600 of those were printed. But regardless of the limitations, the getting kicked
- [We Are Douchebags](https://www.geeked.info/we-are-douchebags/)
- [Google Navigation.. Yes please](https://www.geeked.info/google-navigation-yes-please/) - I think I'm sold on the Motorola Droid (and Android 2.0) with the addition of Google Navigation: Google Navigation takes the awesomeness of Google Maps and puts all of it and more onto your Android device. Up to date map data, easy searching, voice navigation, live traffic reports, searching for stops along your route, satellite
- [Film of San Francisco in 1958](https://www.geeked.info/film-of-san-francisco-in-1958/) - One of my favorite songs ("Alone in Kyoto" by Air) and my favorite city, San Francisco. How can you go wrong? The pairing of the music with the video gives me goosebumps. Jeff Altman restores and posts old videos from his grandfather on Vimeo. He recently discovered that this one, labeled "Alameda 1958", included some
- [Videos of Bullets At 1 Million Frames Per Second](https://www.geeked.info/videos-of-bullets-at-1-million-frames-per-second/) - A breathtaking video of a variety of bullets flying through the air and their impacts at up to 1 million frames per second. The videos are from Kurzzeit, a German ballistics measurement company that also sells cameras capable of 30-1,000,000fps at a 312x260 resolution. The cameras are made by Shimadzu.
- [Sights and Sounds of the Blue Angels](https://www.geeked.info/sights-and-sounds-of-the-blue-angels/) - It's Fleet Week again in San Francisco, and as usual the debate over whether the Blue Angels are awesome or that they just represent war rages on Twitter and elsewhere online. Everyone has their own opinion, but politics aside, I love the technical aspect of these incredibly powerful jets flying over our city with talented
- [The Beatles Rock Band!](https://www.geeked.info/the-beatles-rock-band/) - I haven't had a chance to play, but I hear The Beatles Rock Band lives up to the awesome intro video I enjoyed a few weeks back. We're planning to jam this weekend, but I was curious to know what songs were available. After finding out, I figured others might want to know more info
- [Cell Phones at Burning Man](https://www.geeked.info/cell-phones-at-burning-man/) - While thousands are counting down the days until they arrive in Black Rock Desert for Burning Man this year, there's already a number of people out there on the playa getting things ready..... and they're calling and tweeting back to us looking for someone to bring the things they forgot. Yes, that's right there is
- [How To Not Be A Douchebag at SXSW](https://www.geeked.info/how-to-not-be-a-douchebag-at-sxsw/) - Last year I had a blast at SXSW Interactive. It was both enjoyable and informative. However I quickly noticed that there are a lot of.. well douchebags at SXSW. It quickly became quite humorous to pick them out in a crowd and discuss what made them douchey. While it was all a lot of snarky
- [Coder Girl: An ode to female programmers](https://www.geeked.info/coder-girl-an-ode-to-female-programmers/) - This song by Dale Chase is spot-on: The first hint that my own "coder girl" and I would be good together? Seeing O'Reilly books on her bedroom shelf. Of course I'd be remiss to not point you to the Girl at the Video Game store video from G4's Attack of the Show to supplement the
- [Supreme Master TV Billboard](https://www.geeked.info/supreme-master-tv-billboard/) - Photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid Those readers that are recent visitors/residents of San Francisco may have noticed the above billboards popping up. They read "Be Veg! Go Green! Save the planet!" with a url beneath it. It's not an uncommon sort of thing to hear these days, but the people behind this specific
- [Traffic Logging with WRTbwlog](https://www.geeked.info/traffic-logging-with-wrtbwlog/) - I'm a stats junkie, I'll be the first to admit it. Ever since the first few days at college on a T1 line I've wanted to keep an eye on how much bandwidth I could burn through. With a few additions to DD-WRT on the Linksys WRT54G router you can see where all your bandwidth
- [Paul Lockett is a scam](https://www.geeked.info/paul-lockett-is-a-scam/) - I received the following email the other day, thought I'd post it up here to let people know that it is a scam. Don't bother replying. Good day, My name is Mr. Paul Lockett, I am a senior partner in the firm of Infinity Consultants "Private Investigators and Security Consultants". We are conducting a standard
- [Fallout 3 LARPers = awesome](https://www.geeked.info/fallout-3-larpers-awesome/) - Anyone that checks my Xbox Live stats (Gamer Tag: edrabbit) will see that I've spent a bit of time playing Fallout 3. And the love for the expansive world that Fallout 3 weaves is probably why I enjoy these photos of a bunch of Russian LARPers (Live Action RolePlaying). I don't read (or speak) Russian,
- [Mozy Backup + Reinstalling Windows = FAIL](https://www.geeked.info/mozy-backup-reinstalling-windows-fail/) - So I need to reinstall Windows. It happens, Windows gets "dirty" and sometimes I just need a format and reinstall to feel clean again. The same way one might feel on Sunday morning after a weekend bender. But like a good computer user, I've got offsite backups (in addition to that RAID array) that go
- [Web site hack loading microsotf.cn](https://www.geeked.info/web-site-hack-loading-microsotfcn/) - I came back from vacation to find that some of my sites had been compromised. If you're also someone who has websites that have been compromised with an iframe loading microsotf.cn, please join the conversation on freenode (chat.freenode.com) in #microsotf.cn If you don't have an irc client, you can use the webchat. Here are some
- [Journey to the End of the Night](https://www.geeked.info/journey-to-the-end-of-the-night/) - Journey to the End of the Night is near and dear to me as it became one of the catalysts that convinced me to move to San Francisco when I played in the first game in 2006. I was living in Chicago at the time and realized that it was time for a change of
- [Dance Dance Immolation on Boing Boing Video](https://www.geeked.info/dance-dance-immolation-on-boing-boing-video/) - We've been boing-boinged a second time for Dance Dance Immolation. The first was back in 2005 when DDI was in it's infancy. Fast forward 4 years and this time DDI is a bit more polished. BB has a video put together by Eddie Codel, hosted by SFSlim and Charis Tobias and starring the various members
- [Jet Pack World Speed Record Set](https://www.geeked.info/jet-pack-world-speed-record-set/) - If you had any doubt that we were living in the future, we're no longer at the "let's try to build a jet pack" stage. Now we're trying to see how fast they can go. This past weekend, a Go Fast Jet Pack Pilot named Eric Scott set the world speed record for a jetpack:
- [Sleeping in a Beer Can](https://www.geeked.info/sleeping-in-a-beer-can/) - With large multi-day festivals one of the problems is where everyone goes to sleep at the end of the night! Sometimes the festivals are located near hotels, but a lot of the time you'll find a sea of tents housing everyone. But the organizers of Smukfest, a large music festival in Denmark, hit upon a
- [In Bb 2.0: A YouTube Collaboration](https://www.geeked.info/in-bb-20-a-youtube-collaboration/) - Want to make your own ambient Kutiman mixes? Thanks to the work of Darren Solomon of Science For Girls and several YouTube contributors you can (as long as you like Bb). The project is called "In Bb 2.0" and can be found at www.inbflat.net. Darren put out a call for people to post YouTube videos
- [Twitter Angering Users By Removing @replies](https://www.geeked.info/twitter-angering-users-by-removing-replies/) - Twitter made what might first appear to be a small announcement, but on second thought has a huge impact on how many people interact with their service. They announced that they rolled out an update the would remove tweets from your friends that start with @Username from your Twitter stream if you were not following
- [Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus](https://www.geeked.info/mega-shark-vs-giant-octopus/) - Ever wondered what it would be like if a gigantic shark and a humongous octopus battled it out in the waters of the San Francisco Bay? Neither have I, but after seeing the trailer I couldn't resist pre-ordering Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, the straight-to-DVD-movie with Debbie Gibson. It's a flick from The Asylum, a
- [Tonium Pacemaker Replaces Turntables for Hobby DJs](https://www.geeked.info/tonium-pacemaker-replaces-turntables-for-hobby-djs/) - As someone who has a problem with both electronic music and technology, the Tonium Pacemaker seems right up my alley. It's never going to replace a truly talented DJ and luckily the creators recognize that. However, thanks to the lower price of entry ($499 for the 60GB version), it can bring more people into the
- [My Little Pony Live Action Movie](https://www.geeked.info/my-little-pony-live-action-movie/) - I can't wait for the My Little Pony Live Action movie to come out. via Rubin of course
- [Beautiful Thermite Explosion](https://www.geeked.info/beautiful-thermite-explosion/) - Definitely file this one under "Don't Try This At Home" or even "...At NIMBY". The above video is a wonderful example of what happens when you pack gunpowder into a pipe and then top it off with thermite. It's a beautiful mushroom cloud of molten metal that you'll want to be far away from when
- [DDI at How To Destroy The Universe Part 6](https://www.geeked.info/ddi-at-how-to-destroy-the-universe-part-6/) - On Saturday, we pulled Dance Dance Immolation out of storage for the first time in almost two years, dusted it off and got it running again. The event was "How To Destroy the Universe Part 6", an industrial party held at the new NIMBY location in Oakland. We ran one of the longest and most
- [Amazing Landing After Plane Engine Dies](https://www.geeked.info/amazing-landing-after-plane-engine-dies/) - Want to see the correct way to make an emergency landing? Watch from two different views as the engine cuts out and the pilot calmly makes a landing on the highway amidst the occasional profanity.
- [How To Take Apart the Flip Video Ultra](https://www.geeked.info/how-to-take-apart-the-flip-video-ultra/) - I love the idea of the Flip Video cameras.I bought a Flip Video Ultra last year and it has served me quite well. It's small enough that it's easy to carry around for those random moments when you wish you had a video camera. It's cheap enough to not worry about taking it places where
- [Zenta's A-Pod Hexapod Robot](https://www.geeked.info/zentas-a-pod-hexapod-robot/) - After seeing the video of Zenta's hexapod in action I just had to share it. It's design, fluid movement, and lifelike qualities make it absolutely beautiful. The video just had me saying "wow" every few seconds whether it was picking up a can of soda and not getting thrown off balance, or being dexterous enough
- [SXSW 2009: My Reflections](https://www.geeked.info/sxsw-2009-my-reflections/) - After a day of rest, sleep, and unpacking, I'm happy to be home in San Francisco after spending the last week in Austin, Texas attending South By Southwest (aka SXSW). It was the most enjoyable week I've had in a long time both personally and professionally. So much fun that I didn't stop to take
- [SXSW 2009: Getting By Without a Badge](https://www.geeked.info/sxsw-2009-getting-by-without-a-badge/) - Let me start off by saying I bought a badge, a Gold one at that. SXSW got $695 of my company's money for me to attend. I'm not saying you shouldn't pay for a badge and try to sneak into SXSW. I'm all for supporting people that make things happen. With that said, here's my
- [SXSW 2009](https://www.geeked.info/sxsw-2009/) - Obligatory "I'm doing SXSW" post. Find me and say hi if you're here too! It's my first time and I've already learned something valuable: "Don't get a hotel room far away" Looks like I'll be racking up the taxi fares as well as the bar tabs this week!
- [JS-Kit Easy Web 2.0 Widgets](https://www.geeked.info/js-kit-easy-web-20-widgets/) - Sometimes you don't really feel like sitting down and coding a lot in order to provide new functionality to your site. Or maybe you don't even have the first clue about writing code to add comments, ratings, or polls to your website. That's where JS-Kit comes into the picture. It's painfully simple to include their
- [Changing Home and End Keys for Firefox](https://www.geeked.info/changing-home-and-end-keys-for-firefox/) - One of the biggest problems when I switched from my Windows laptop to OS X on my Macbook Pro was the lack of dedicated Home/End keys. Having to hit function and the arrow keys to get my Home/End navigation was annoying. I've now adjusted to it and have a callous on my left pinky to
- [YouTube Remixed Into Awesome by Kutiman](https://www.geeked.info/youtube-remixed-into-awesome-by-kutiman/) - Sorry for the reblog, but I had to share this. DocPop guest posted this over on Laughing Squid: Thru-You is the new album by Israeli funk musician Kutiman. All of the album’s sounds were painstakingly culled from YouTube videos and masterfully mixed into 7 fantastic tracks. It’s like the “Entroducing…” of the internet! Hurry over
- [Timescale: A Call For Artists](https://www.geeked.info/timescale-a-call-for-artists/) - Timescale is an art project of great magnitude. A mile long, with 27 concrete columns over 6' high, and a variety of artwork, this piece will be a scaled representation of the history of the Earth. It's being created by Ardent Heavy Industries, the not-fire-art parent group to Interpretive Arson, which means the people that
- [Mistabishi's "Printer Jam" Video](https://www.geeked.info/mistabishis-printer-jam-video/) - This great drum n bass track from newcomer Mistabishi is appropriately titled. The video is a nice companion for your eyes as your ears are assaulted, in that good sort of way. Turn up the speakers and hit play. If you like what you hear, you can grab his album on iTunes or Hospital Records.
- [Wordpress Inserting Line Breaks In Front of Form Elements](https://www.geeked.info/wordpress-inserting-line-breaks-in-front-of-form-elements/) - So I'm working on a form for users to submit data on a Wordpress-based site. I want it to look like this: What I'm getting is this: Those are screenshots, so here's a "live" example: Name: Email: Phone #: Taking a look at the preview page using Firebug, I noticed that it was inserting
- [San Francisco Pillow Fight 2009 and the UN](https://www.geeked.info/san-francisco-pillow-fight-2009-and-the-un/) - Every year in San Francisco on Valentine's Day, thousands of people gather to confront each other with the softest weapons known to man. Many of my friends have joined in this battle, wielding pillows of all shapes and sizes. This year I decided that I would lay down my pillow and take a neutral stance
- [Software I Recommend for OS X](https://www.geeked.info/software-i-recommend-for-os-x/) - It's been over a year since I made "the switch" to OS X. I bought my Macbook Pro last January and while it's been a struggle at times, I've managed to use it as my primary machine for over a year. I recently got an email from a friend who had just picked up an
- [San Francisco Pillow Fight 2009 Photos](https://www.geeked.info/san-francisco-pillow-fight-2009-photos/) - I've finished going through the photos from the San Francisco Valentine's Day Pillow Fight. There are some of the UNCCH before the pillow violence erupted as well as some photos deep within the carnage. The full set can be found on my Flickr. Previously posted: San Francisco Pillow Fight 2009 and the UN
- [An Absinthe Education](https://www.geeked.info/an-absinthe-education/) - I've found myself drinking more and more absinthe over the past year or so. It's a much more enjoyable drink than your typical beer or cocktail. We even had the pleasure of having the Absinthe Fairy Crusher visit the latest party at The Fishbowl. However absinthe is a much misunderstood beverage. If you're not familiar
- [Celebration and Explosive Sledgehammers](https://www.geeked.info/celebration-and-explosive-sledgehammers/) - Unfortunately we missed it this year, but next year you should grab your Thor costume and head down to San Juan de la Vega, Mexico in February for some explosive celebrations. Every year on the Tuesday of Carnival (which fell on Feb 5th this year), the residents of San Juan de la Vega get together
- [San Francisco's Western Addition: Then and Now](https://www.geeked.info/san-franciscos-western-addition-then-and-now/) - Having only been in San Francisco a few years, I'm always intrigued with how it used to look. Heather came across some great Flickr photo sets dating back to the 70s and 80s, one specifically dedicated to our neighborhood, Western Addition. We went through the photos and attempted to track them down via Google Street
- [Purple Tunnel of Doom - The Google Map](https://www.geeked.info/purple-tunnel-of-doom-the-google-map/) - I didn't think I'd be posting more about the Inauguration, but the stories about the Purple ticket line and the infamous "Purple Tunnel of Doom" are gaining steam. The Huffington Post has a great round-up of info on it and I figured I'd share the Google map that I put together after the Inauguration because
- [Our Inauguration Experience in Photos](https://www.geeked.info/our-inauguration-experience-in-photos/) - I've been meaning to sit down and write up a blog post about our Inauguration experience (the good and bad), but I haven't gotten anywhere close to finishing it. It's rapidly approaching that point of no return where I know I won't actually get it done, so I figured I'd post some photos for people
- [More Videos from The Inauguration and the Purple Tunnel](https://www.geeked.info/more-videos-from-the-inauguration-and-the-purple-tunnel/) - Some more videos from the Inauguration and the seemingly never-ending Purple Line. Cop car parting the sea of people in the Purple Tunnel of Doom from Ed Hunsinger on Vimeo. Purple Tunnel of Doom - "Yes we can!" from Ed Hunsinger on Vimeo. Walking the line in the Purple Tunnel Of Doom from Ed Hunsinger
- [Streaming Qik from the Inauguration](https://www.geeked.info/streaming-qik-from-the-inauguration/) - I was surprisingly able to stream a couple of Qik videos while waiting in line for and during the Inauguration of Barack Obama. I'm amazed that the cell networks held up, let alone allowed me to stream video. Here they are: Walking down the loooong line for the Purple ticket holders: Still waiting in line:
- [Headed to D.C. in the morning](https://www.geeked.info/headed-to-dc-in-the-morning/) - We're all packed up with warm clothes, electronics, and whatnot and ready for the shuttle to pick us up at 6:30am to head to the airport and eventually land in Washington D.C. for Obama's Inauguration. The party has already started with the We Are One concert tonight. We tuned into the rebroadcast from HBO to
- [Google search results for "KH(Ax)N" for x=1 to 100](https://www.geeked.info/google-search-results-for-khaxn-for-x1-to-100/) - Ever wonder just how many 'A's you should be using when searching for one of Captain Kirk's most famous phrases? Tim has graphed it out for you.
- [Tickets for the Swearing In Ceremony of Barack Obama](https://www.geeked.info/tickets-for-the-swearing-in-ceremony-of-barack-obama/) - Just got back from picking up our tickets from Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's office. So excited to actually have them in my hands. Only 5 more days! We've got seats in the North Standing (or Purple) area. If we get there early enough we might actually get a decent spot in the center! Here's a map
- [We're Headed to the Inauguration!](https://www.geeked.info/were-headed-to-the-inauguration/) - image via Flickr Jan 20th is my birthday and I can't think of any better present this year than having Barack Obama as President. I've never been much of a political person. I have my own views and opinions, but have never been interested in all the politics. A lot of that changed with this
- [Dracul: Prince of Fire, a Fire Ballet](https://www.geeked.info/dracul-prince-of-fire-a-fire-ballet/) - Last night we gathered with a large number of friends for the second performance of "Dracul: Prince of Fire" at The Crucible. We've been to several of the previous fire ballets and knew that the tickets were worth every penny. Apparently so did the rest of the Bay Area as the performance quickly sold out.
- [I Spy Eye-Fi for the iPhone](https://www.geeked.info/i-spy-eye-fi-for-the-iphone/) - Say that quickly three times. I love my Eye-Fi card and have since the early days beta-testing it. It makes "downloading" photos easier, parties more fun, and opens up all sorts of new possibilities. I also like my iPhone as well, but I've been kind of disappointed with the iPhone apps for instant uploading of
- [Wingsuits and the Crazy BASE Jumpers That Love Them](https://www.geeked.info/wingsuits-and-the-crazy-base-jumpers-that-love-them/) - wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo. There aren't many videos online that give me goosebumps in a good way. This is one of them. I can watch this over and over and over and still my jaw drops. The clip above is from Matchstick Production's ski film, "Seven Sunny Days" (trailer). There are a
- [An unoccupied derelict's attempt to communicate](https://www.geeked.info/an-unoccupied-derelicts-attempt-to-communicate/) - Heather received the perplexing email at the end of this post in her inbox a few days ago. I'm not sure what it all means, and I could only find this post on Yahoo! Answers with other people questioning it as well. The email posted there was slightly different in some sentences. Intelliant (the username
- [New Year's Eve at the Blogger Bungalow](https://www.geeked.info/new-years-eve-at-the-blogger-bungalow/) - photo by Violet Blue(?) When it came time to decide where we were going to spend the evening welcoming 2009, it was a tough choice. There were things happening all over the Bay Area, but not wanting to do the "party circuit" we decided we had to pick one. Enticed by interesting hosts/guests, technology, and
- [Year-End Travel Meme Time](https://www.geeked.info/year-end-travel-meme-time/) - List the towns or cities (I'm including National Parks too) where you spent at least a night away from home during 2008. Mark with a star if you had multiple non-consecutive stays. Monterey, CA * Lewisville, NC Santa Barbara, CA * Olema, CA Seattle, WA Black Rock City, NV Cedar City, UT Bryce Canyon National
- [How To Pronounce Labret and More Fun Facts](https://www.geeked.info/how-to-pronounce-labret-and-more-fun-facts/) - A common misconception about the popular below-the-lip piercing is how it's pronounced. I can't count the number of times that I've heard people say "It's French, the 't' is silent!". Consider this your Body Mod Public Service Announcement for the day. The 't' is pronounced. It's not French, it actually comes from Latin: labrum meaning
- [Visual Illusion Jewelry](https://www.geeked.info/visual-illusion-jewelry/) - These necklaces and earrings from Tania Hennessy on Etsy are amazing. Not only are they eye-catching, they're also made from recycled vinyl records! Click over to her store, Aroha Silhouettes, to check out all the different pieces. via mindhacks
- [Fire on the White Holly In the Sausalito Yacht Parade](https://www.geeked.info/fire-on-the-white-holly-in-the-sausalito-yacht-parade/) - For 19 years, the Sausalito Yacht Club has held the annual "Lighted Boat Parade". Everyone brings their boats out lit up with Christmas lights and cruises around the Bay. This year for the 20th time, they held the same parade, only there was a new entry, the White Holly, which took things a step further
- [A Night of Scrabble in Time Lapse](https://www.geeked.info/a-night-of-scrabble-in-time-lapse/) - Vimeo is being weird so you may have to hit play, pause, and then replay or else it zooms through the video way too fast We've been playing a lot of Scrabble lately. Surprisingly it's the old school board game style and not some online Facebook app. I saw on Laughing Squid that this year
- [Using Cloud Hosting with Mosso](https://www.geeked.info/using-cloud-hosting-with-mosso/) - I'm quite familiar with the topic of webhosting, having hosted websites for well over a decade now. Most of my friends and colleagues come to me to ask my opinion on what they should use to host their website. My general answer is Dreamhost for most people since it's quick, cheap, and easy to run
- [Posting to Wordpress from the Desktop](https://www.geeked.info/posting-to-wordpress-from-the-desktop/) - I've caved and finally started seriously looking at a desktop level application to manage all my blog posting. When you have as many sites as I do, it's much easier (and faster) to keep them all in one interface. Having a web interface is nice for flexibility, but it is definitely slower. Right now I'm
- [Top 10 Ways to Stop a Ceiling Fan With Your Head](https://www.geeked.info/top-10-ways-to-stop-a-ceiling-fan-with-your-head/) - I'm not sure how I stumbled across this, but I've discovered a trove of "ceiling fan meets head" videos on YouTube. I'm not sure what it means, but the very fact that these are not isolated clips implies something is going on across the world. It's not just one country, or one age group. Although
- [USB Hub for a Macbook Pro, My Wish](https://www.geeked.info/usb-hub-for-a-macbook-pro-my-wish/) - Dear Laptop Accessory Manufacturers, Please make a USB hub that I can use on my Macbook Pro so I can have more than two things plugged in at once. I have been unable to find an acceptable USB hub that preserves the mobility of my Macbook Pro as well as protects the USB port from
- [Real Life Fail Whale](https://www.geeked.info/real-life-fail-whale/) - I threw together this image even though we see less and less of the Fail Whale these days. (Thanks @netik and crew!) Hopefully our friend will some day be as rare as the chance of seeing the above. Sources: Seagulls from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pkeleher/1363971024/ Whale from: http://pats0n.livejournal.com/
- [6 Things I've Learned from Weewar](https://www.geeked.info/6-things-ive-learned-from-weewar/) - Weewar is a turn based strategy game where you battle against your friends and strangers with cute little troops and vehicles. It's strangely addictive, especially because you only need a browser to play it from anywhere. I signed up last month and now I'm hopelessly addicted to it. However it's not completely wasted time, as
- [Time-Lapse Photography with a TI-85 Graphing Calculator](https://www.geeked.info/time-lapse-photography-with-a-ti-85-graphing-calculator/) - I've got a soft spot for time-lapse stuff. Most of the time I make my own videos using a webcam because I have things all set up so that it's easy and quick for me. However, because the webcam is such low quality, I've always had a desire to do some higher resolution time-lapse. With
- [Disabling Windows Update Auto Reboot](https://www.geeked.info/disabling-windows-update-auto-reboot/) - If you're like me, your computer is always on, always connected to the Internet and the monitor is the only thing that gets turned off from time to time. This is great because you can leave a copy of FireFox open with 5-10 tabs of pages/articles that you want to read but don't have the
- [Almost A Dot Com Mogul](https://www.geeked.info/almost-a-dot-com-mogul/) - I stumbled onto John Chow's blog tonight and found a post titled "Requirements To Be A Dot Com Mogul". Let's see.... * Your income is made from the Internet Some of it is. At least my part-time re-invest and "toys" money is * The minimum Internet income level is $10,000 a month (you can not
- [Rahul Putha](https://www.geeked.info/rahul-putha/) - Rahul, do I know you? Why do you keep inviting me to some names database? Your email address is rahulnsm@gmail.com and the only google result of your name is pointed at said name database site. My name isn't even listed in this names database. In fact, only one family member is listed for my surname.
- [Wordpress app for the iPhone](https://www.geeked.info/wordpress-app-for-the-iphone/) - The app that I (and ever other blogger) has been eagerly waiting for is finally here! Wordpress has released what looks to be a full featured app for the iPhone for all us on the go bloggers. I had to jump on iTunes to grab it because I wasn't finding it in the app store
- [Iphone failures - Uploading Photos](https://www.geeked.info/iphone-failures-uploading-photos/) - So I took a couple photos as we walked around Monterey this afternoon with my new 3g iPhone. It seemed like I got some nice quality shots with the 2mp camera as far as I could tell when looking at them on the device. I downloaded Shozu, an app that looked really promising as far
- [What is my hard drive doing?!](https://www.geeked.info/what-is-my-hard-drive-doing/) - Ever wondering what goes on in that box as it makes little noises and the light flash? LeTheOnline.net took the top off one and turned on the computer to show you. And another video showing a demo of a harddrive with a little more educational content:
- [Error #1520: External attribute header mismatch](https://www.geeked.info/error-1520-external-attribute-header-mismatch/) - Yay for Partition Magic 8.0. :( PM is such a fickle utility. In some cases it works beautifully, in other cases it's like a plane crashing into a train when someone left a semi on the tracks. This time I was lucky though, and it was a quick fix. I decided late one night that
- [Griffin Evolve Wireless Speakers Review and Unboxing](https://www.geeked.info/griffin-evolve-wireless-speakers-review-and-unboxing/) - A few weeks ago a set of Griffin Evolve wireless speakers arrived. I had been needing to get a decent solution for listening to music when hanging around the house and my laptop speakers weren't cutting it. I wanted something that would work with my iPod since that's where my music lived and something that
- [Debating the QNAP TS-209 II vs building a PC](https://www.geeked.info/debating-the-qnap-ts-209-ii-vs-building-a-pc/) - So I'm at a point where I feel like I need a good solid server in my apartment again. Something that I can use for the following: - Media storage for serving to PS3/xbox - Backup storage for photos, files, and whatnot - Version control system for website development - ssh server for tunneling back
- [The Saga of a Carputer](https://www.geeked.info/the-saga-of-a-carputer/) - As technology advances, soon you find that your homegrown solutions are readily available in prepackaged purchasable form. Almost 10 years ago I started building carputers. They were exactly as their name sounds, a computer in a car. Back then it was absurd to think of mp3s in a car as many people didn't even know
- [Hacking the La Fonera Fon Router with DD-WRT](https://www.geeked.info/hacking-the-la-fonera-fon-router-with-dd-wrt/) - I live across the street from a friend and we thought it would be handy to be able to connect to each other's machines in order to transfer files back and forth. Rather than just connect to each other's networks as needed, we figured it'd be easier just to setup a third "across-the-street" network. This
- [Using the La Fonera Router from Fon as a Wireless Bridge](https://www.geeked.info/using-the-la-fonera-router-from-fon-as-a-wireless-bridge/) - (If you haven't hacked DD-WRT onto your Fon router yet, you probably want to read this article: Hacking the La Fonera Fon Router with DD-WRT) So you've got a Fon router with one ethernet port and wireless hardware, what do you do with it? Well you could use it for a number of things thanks
- [DD-WRT, Tomato, or default Linksys firmware?](https://www.geeked.info/dd-wrt-tomato-or-default-linksys-firmware/) - One of my best "sidewalk scores" since I moved to the Bay Area was a Linksys WRT54G router (v4). This brings up the count of WRT54G routers in the apartment to 3, plus the La Fonera wireless bridge to a friend across the street. How are they being used and what are they running? Previously
- [Pearls Before Breakfast](https://www.geeked.info/pearls-before-breakfast/) - Monday, April 9, 2007 1 p.m. ET Post Magazine: Too Busy to Stop and Hear the Music Can one of the nation's greatest musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Gene Weingarten set out to discover if violinist Josh Bell -- and his Stradivarius -- could stop busy commuters in their tracks.
- [Hip-Hop Pop-Up](https://www.geeked.info/hip-hop-pop-up/) - I've had a love/hate relationship with pop culture and advertising for quite some time. While I find quite a bit of it insulting and manipulative, I also find it incredibly intriguing at the same time. Hip-Hop Pop-Up is one of those sites that extracts and exposes the subtle advertising in mainstream hip-hop today. With a
- [UNKLE Paying Lip Service?](https://www.geeked.info/unkle-paying-lip-service/) - I received a free copy of this mix cd when I saw UNKLE live at the Mezzanine in San Francisco. I was happy to see them embracing a more open stance on music and copyright until I read the conflicting fine print: The copyright in this sound recording is owned by Surrender All. Made in
- [Where'd my Internet go?](https://www.geeked.info/whered-my-internet-go/) - The last week or so my internet connection has been going down seemingly randomly. It'll go down for awhile and then come back just like normal. What made it odd was that a friend in Texas (I'm in Chicago) was also going down at the same times. After 3 or 4 "coincidences" we decided this
- [Secure your code!](https://www.geeked.info/secure-your-code/) - Google has launch it's new Google Code Search which allows you to search publicly accessible source code. Great for programmers, great for hackers, bad for not so attentive webmasters. Google crawls websites and peeks inside archive files (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar, and .zip) looking for code. Remember when you figured a zipped up file wouldn't be
- [Dreamhost Accidentally Bills Everyone!](https://www.geeked.info/dreamhost-accidentally-bills-everyone/) - Dreamhost, one web hosting company I use for non-mission critical websites, really screwed up this time. In an attempt to collect on all the bills that were due by the end of 2007, an automated billing script was run. The only problem was this script was run as if it was 2008-12-31, NOT 2007-12-31. Of
- [Zappos + Twitter](https://www.geeked.info/zappos-twitter/) - Looks like Zappos is doing a Twitter experiment while they're in town visiting the Twitter offices. Not sure what they're up to, but I'm game. The original twitter: If you r in San Fran area, write "Zappos" on back of left hand w/ marker & twitter @zappos link to picture of it. Why? Details to
- [Social Engineering to Feed the Homeless](https://www.geeked.info/social-engineering-to-feed-the-homeless/) - via The Art of the Prank
- [Bot Conversations](https://www.geeked.info/bot-conversations/) - I have a predisposition to chat bots. Years and years ago my dad introduced me to a simple yet intriguing Macintosh virtual psychologist program that captured my attention. Several years later I put an AIM chatbot together based on perl and the ELIZA module. I still launch "her" every now and then and she still
- [Mind Erasing Drug](https://www.geeked.info/mind-erasing-drug/) - One experiment was conducted with rats at New York University. Two musical tones were associated with a mild electrical shock. The rats would then hear the tone and would brace for a shock. The researchers then gave half the rats a drug, called U0126 and known to cause limited amnesia, when playing one of the musical tones. Afterwards the rats would only brace for the shock with one of the tones, instead of both.
- [Helio Ocean on the way](https://www.geeked.info/helio-ocean-on-the-way/) - I received an email notification at 3am that my Helio Ocean order was put through. I have to wait two days (probably Monday arrival), but I saved close to $200 by taking the presales route. I've been a huge fan of Danger and their Sidekicks for years, but the Ocean is enticing. It's the first
- [Add to your Google Calendar (and more) with IM](https://www.geeked.info/add-to-your-google-calendar-with-im/) - The other night I was talking with a friend about how great it would be to be able to access my Google Calendar from my Sidekick in order to add and view events. We lamented about the lack of a solution even though it seems like it should be possible. Then I heard about IMified
- [RIP Dodgeball?](https://www.geeked.info/rip-dodgeball/) - With the departure of the Dodgeball founders, and no indication that Google wants to improve it for months, it looks like curtains for Dodgeball are imminent. Dodgeball.com is currently returning a Google 502 Server Error. Generally a 502 error indicates too much traffic or server overload. We find it hard to believe that the failing
- [Remote Control Bus Stop Rave Flash Mob](https://www.geeked.info/remote-control-bus-stop-rave-flash-mob/) - Oh sf0, you are responsible for so many great things (not to mention me moving to San Francisco). What's the next best thing? Oh, a sequel to the great Remote Control Bus Stop Rave Flash Mob? You've got to be kidding me! I'll be there! No idea what I'm talking about? Here's the video from
- [Post to Twitter when you post to your blog](https://www.geeked.info/post-to-twitter-when-you-post-to-your-blog/) - I don't like doing things manually when I can have software do my bidding. Usually I'll send a twitter when I have a new blog post on here that I think people are interested in. (I recognize not everyone has my RSS feed in their feed reader...yet) But it's a manual process and an extra
- [Critter's New Tattoo: Fail Whale](https://www.geeked.info/critters-new-tattoo-fail-whale/) - Wow, Critter already sealed the title of "Best Geek Ink" long ago with his Seesmic, ColdFusion, and Adobe Air tattoos. (Did I miss any Critter?) Oh yeah, there's also the Twhirl tattoo. But now he's taken it one step further to get another piece of the web tattooed on him. This time it's the ever
- [Statistics for Twitter](https://www.geeked.info/statistics-for-twitter/) - Anyone else out there a statistics junkie? Yes, I'm looking at you, the one with a last.fm account who's adamant about scrobbling every last mp3 you play so you can generate fancy charts. Well if you're a Twitter user, you'll be happy to know about Tweetrush. Tweetrush is a site that will spit back statistics
- [My 3,000th Tweet: Juno Reactor](https://www.geeked.info/my-3000th-tweet-juno-reactor/) - Last night while watching Juno Reactor at The Independent here in San Francisco I hit my 3,000th tweet. The comment was in regards to the completely unexpected Juno Reactor show. I had never seen them live, and had only heard the music in soundtracks or on my ipod. They came out with an intense energy
- [Demographic Info From 26,000 Phished MySpace Account](https://www.geeked.info/demographic-info-from-26000-phished-myspace-account/) - So a few days ago LoLo tapped me for some quick PHP-ing to analyze a file of phished MySpace passwords that he had found. For those that don't know what's been going on with MySpace and the password phishing, check out this article for an explanation. So armed with this data, I sat down and
- [Another bubble coming?](https://www.geeked.info/another-bubble-coming/) - Take a look at these charts, look at the recent acquisitions of MySpace and YouTube, look at the success of PlentyofFish (which is run by 1 person out of his apartment!) and then try to tell me there isn't another bubble coming? Hopefully this one we'll go into with a little more knowledge and it
- [San Francisco Pie Fight!](https://www.geeked.info/san-francisco-pie-fight/) - Today Market St saw quite the mess at the Powell Cable Car turnaround. A Pie Fight erupted amidst the throngs of tourists. Mike Morris was able to get some good pics while dodging the pies.
- [Using Lumines to hack your PSP](https://www.geeked.info/using-lumines-to-hack-your-psp/) - Want to run homebrew apps on your PSP? For the past couple of years, it's been a game of cat and mouse with homebrew hackers coming up with ways around Sony's updated firmwares. The latest uses one of my favorite games to exploit a loophole that will let you run homebrew apps on any version
- [Incredible contact juggling video](https://www.geeked.info/incredible-contact-juggling-video/) - We interrupt your regularly scheduled posts of Ed complaining about computers to bring you this amazing video: via Rubin
- [Domain Buying Scam?](https://www.geeked.info/domain-buying-scam/) - I got the following email today: From: Anne Gaskins Subject: Your Website Hello, Browsing on the Internet I came across your website [domainname.com] . If you are interested in selling it, please email me back your phone number, so we can discuss it. I have cash to buy today! Thank you in advance My
- [Urgent Call to Help Oakland Artists and Organizations](https://www.geeked.info/urgent-call-to-help-oakland-artists-and-organizations/) - An email from Michael Sturtz, the founder of The Crucible, went out recently detailing a threat to the Oakland Arts Community that could significantly affect the Bay Area art community as well. We need to act quickly because the City Council meeting is Oct 21st. I'm reposting below: Hello everyone, Please read this message, the
- [Turn off border popup on OLPC laptop](https://www.geeked.info/turn-off-border-popup-on-olpc-laptop/) - One of the minor, yet incredibly annoying features about Sugar, the operating system on the XO laptop, is that there is this thick border that pops up to allow you to navigate. It seems to be really sensitive and loves to pop up when I try to go access the menus in a program that's
- [Need to order a flux capacitor for a Delorean?](https://www.geeked.info/need-to-order-a-flux-capacitor-for-a-delorean/) - Anyone that's rebuilding a Delorean knows that the flux capacitor is an integral part that no stainless steel vehicle could go without. While they are incredibly difficult to find, we're happy to let you know that Delorean.com now has them in stock and is giving them away for free! Just go to their parts search
- [Khronos Projector: Messing with the concepts of space and time](https://www.geeked.info/khronos-projector-messing-with-the-concepts-of-space-and-time/) - Prompted by a twitter, I revisited a project I was amazed at several years ago, the Khronos Projector. It's an incredibly cool project that blew my mind when I watched videos of it back in 2005. I hope to some day catch it in person and get a chance to play with it. I've shown
- [Spelling Fire with Fire](https://www.geeked.info/fire-display/) - Forget all the new-fangled flat screen, LCD, HDMI, and super high-end displays out there. You know what you really want is a good old fashioned, back to the basics, fire display. NAO Designs has one ready for you if you're ready to shell out the dough. Unfortunately the resolution is only 12x7, but come on,
- [Helio Ocean - First Impressions](https://www.geeked.info/helio-ocean-first-impressions/) - The Helio Ocean arrived today. My first impressions: - nice and small - the slide is kind of cool - nice 2mp camera - downloadable video, meh. but the episode of Ask a Ninja was totally watchable. - wow fast speeds - GPS is pretty good - Google Maps looks gorgeous and is fast -
- [How does the Nintendo Light Gun work? (with video)](https://www.geeked.info/how-does-the-nintendo-light-gun-work/) - Ahhh the old Nintendo Zapper, aka the Nintendo gun. An object of great joy and entertainment from our childhood. Something we played with day in and day out, but most of us had no clue how it worked. We'd make up stories about it shooting lasers off the tv or it changing the TV screen
- [Nintendo Light Zapper + Wiimote](https://www.geeked.info/nintendo-light-zapper-wiimote/) - I told you how the old school Nintendo Light Zapper works, but now cyberpyrot over at AcidMods shows you how to modify one for use with the Nintendo Wii. Pretty simple, yet slick and a nice merging of old school with new school.
- [ShagOS is not the partition type](https://www.geeked.info/shagos-is-not-the-partition-type/) - Once upon a time, many many years ago Ed bought a motherboard that didn't support large harddrives. Apparently Ed installed some software called Dynamic Drive Overlay to get around this and was able to drop several 2-300gb drives in the machine. Now that it is finally time to move to a new machine that does
- [Explosion Collection](https://www.geeked.info/explosion-collection/) - We've recently stumbled upon some good videos of explosions again. Last time it was Explosive Ordinance Disposals but this time it's an even bigger explosion, as well as some other large ones I had the opportunity to see in person. Russian Vacuum Bomb Containing 7.8 tons of high explosives, Russia's latest "vacuum bomb" is non-nuclear
- [Explosives Camp](https://www.geeked.info/explosives-camp/) - They didn't have this sort of thing when I was growing up, but I wish they did! NPR reports on a camp for kids where they're encouraged to blow things up. Some video from one of the lessons on creating a wall of fire and exploding a chicken:
- [Las Vegas Hotel Implosions](https://www.geeked.info/las-vegas-hotel-implosions/) - On my first trip to Las Vegas last weekend, I marveled at the sheer size of some of the buildings on the strip. But I would have loved to be there to see the buildings get destroyed. Luckily the top ten Las Vegas hotel implosions are captured on video for your enjoyment. My personal fave
- [Large Detonations and Explosions](https://www.geeked.info/large-detonations-and-explosions/) - It started with a 100 ton detonation found via techyum: Then we found another view of it: Then we started poking around and found these: How about a 426 ton one? These all appear to be from the EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) guys over in Iraq, disposing of weapons and explosives they've seized.
- [Loud Explosion Wakes Up San Francisco](https://www.geeked.info/loud-explosion-wakes-up-san-francisco/) - It was a few minutes after 11pm and Heather and I had just parked the car at Lyon St and McAllister when there was an incredibly loud boom and a flash of light out of the corner of my eye. Just suddenly, out of the blue. The alarm for the car across the street was
- [Kensington's Portable iPhone Battery Recharger](https://www.geeked.info/kensingtons-portable-iphone-battery-recharger/) - One of the first lessons I learned when starting to use the iPhone 3G was that the battery life was terrible. It was worse than the Sidekick's and many times will not even make it through a day depending on the amount of usage. Now I know there's all sorts of tricks and tips for
- [Make my Macbook Pro Hibernate](https://www.geeked.info/make-my-macbook-pro-hibernate/) - I don't like to waste battery life, especially when traveling. I love the Hibernate feature in Windows, and have all of my laptops set to hibernate when the lid is closed. The few extra seconds it takes to wake up is worth the saved battery life in my eyes. For those that don't know here
- [What the heck are you doing Spotlight?](https://www.geeked.info/what-the-heck-are-you-doing-spotlight/) - I don't use Spotlight at all thanks to Quicksilver. But I've noticed in my system.log that I'm getting the following messages over and over again: Apr 20 14:44:40 egads com.apple.launchd[102] (com.apple.Spotlight[4906]): posix_spawnp("/System/Library/CoreServices/Spotlight.app/Contents/MacOS/Spotlight", ...): No such file or directory Apr 20 14:44:40 egads com.apple.launchd[102] (com.apple.Spotlight[4906]): Exited with exit code: 1 Anyone have any idea what's happening
- [Burning Life 2008](https://www.geeked.info/burning-life-2008/) - As someone who goes to Burning Man and someone who spends a lot of time immersed in the online world, I was curious when I heard about Burning Life 2008. Burning Life is a virtual experience modeled after the Burning Man event that happens in the Black Rock Desert every year. I have had a
- [Toshiba REGZA 32" 32RV530u LCD HDTV](https://www.geeked.info/toshiba-regza-32-32rv530u-lcd-hdtv/) - I've been meaning to make a post about the new tv/monitor I picked up awhile ago. The projector that a friend had given to me as a birthday gift almost 2 years ago decided it was on it's way out, or at least its bulb was. And since it was a Woot special, the bulb
- [Noisebridge Starts a San Francisco Hacker Space](https://www.geeked.info/noisebridge-starts-a-san-francisco-hacker-space/) - For those that haven't heard, Noisebridge has acquired a space in which to build San Francisco's premier hacker space. It's a great space in an alley off 16th Street, literally across the street from BART. We gathered at the new space for the first time yesterday to clean, and clean, and clean, and then hold
- [The Fuel Girls, aka hot chicks](https://www.geeked.info/the-fuel-girls-aka-hot-chicks/) - The Fuel Girls are a kick ass, ultra-sexy, fire breathing rock and roll, dance and stunt show! We perform all over the world, with a passion for FMX shows, rock festivals, motorshows, rallies and WILD parties! Our crazy no holds barred attitude and our awesome mad-max rides mean you get a bit more than you
- [Full Screen Firefox and Safari on OS X](https://www.geeked.info/full-screen-firefox-and-safari-on-os-x/) - Anyone that has talked to me about what I don't like about OS X has heard me complain about the inability to maximize an application to take up the entire screen in one easy step. Sure you can drag the corner out, but that's an annoying "work-around" in my opinion. But thanks to Todd Dailey
- [It's time for iPhone Apps](https://www.geeked.info/its-time-for-iphone-apps/) - Yes, I went out and did it. One and a half hours in line last Wednesday at the San Francisco Apple store on Stockton and I walked out with a 16gb iPhone 3G. So far I've been very impressed. It has it's downsides, things that the Sidekick still does infinitely better, but it does do
- [Trying the Switch: My Macbook Pro Experience](https://www.geeked.info/trying-the-switch-my-macbook-pro-experience/) - I grew up on Apple computers. Starting with my first computer (a Macintosh Classic) when I was 5 years old, I solely used Apple products until I was 15 and was then able to convince my dad to buy a PC so that I could play games. After that I only interacted with Apple products
- [Dealing with a frozen Macbook Pro](https://www.geeked.info/dealing-with-a-frozen-macbook-pro/) - I had just installed the new 4gigs of RAM into my Macbook Pro. I booted back up, launched VMWare so I could run ExactAudioCopy to continue ripping my CDs to an external harddrive in both FLAC and MP3. I jumped into FireFox (v2.0.0.11) to look at some videos that Heather had on her site. We
- [Ed's Macbook Pro: 2008-01-22 to 2008-04-09.  "We hardly knew you..."](https://www.geeked.info/eds-macbook-pro-2008-01-22-to-2008-04-09-we-hardly-knew-you/) - The night before heading out to New York I spent a few hours transferring files and setting up things so I could just bring my Macbook Pro instead of both the MBP and my work laptop. I was sitting on the couch, closed the laptop to do something, and then came back to open it
- [coreaudiod and mdworker (aka Spotlight) crashing! Help!](https://www.geeked.info/coreaudiod-and-mdworker-aka-spotlight-crashing-help/) - UPDATE: Apparently you just need to make a post on your blog and then suddenly the answer appears (or things start working right. mdworker decided to stop crashing all of a sudden, but just to be on the safe side I went ahead and rebuilt the launch services database at the suggestion of a friend
- [Macbook Pro Resurrected!](https://www.geeked.info/macbook-pro-resurrected/) - It is back from the dead! Upon suggestions from a couple of friends and some vague posts on random forums, I swapped out the new 4gb of RAM I bought with the original 2gb that came with the machine. My Macbook Pro then booted without problems. *sigh* Looks like this RAM is headed back to
- [Dance Dance Immolation on Forbes.com](https://www.geeked.info/dance-dance-immolation-on-forbescom/) - As many of you already know, Dance Dance Immolation is a project from Interpretive Arson, a fire art group I'm part of. It was originally built by a talented group of friends and is now maintained and improved by a number of people. We try to bring it out a couple times a year to
- [The Balsa Man burned!](https://www.geeked.info/the-balsa-man-burned/) - The first ever Balsa Man was a huge success. There was a large turnout of familiar and new faces on Baker Beach last night as we all gathered to burn our own Man. The Balsa Man built by Colin and Nifer was impressive in person, even after already seen the pictures of the build. Several
- [Change your crontab editor](https://www.geeked.info/change-your-crontab-editor/) - For those that use *nix, crontab is a wonderful tool. But when you're working on a new server and crontab -e is bringing up the dreaded vi to edit it, I cringe. I know some people swear by vi, but I'm a pico or nano man myself. So the first thing I do is add
- [PHP Error with ImageCreateFromBMP function](https://www.geeked.info/php-error-with-imagecreatefrombmp-function/) - This post is for the web/php geeks out there. I have a page that needs to be able to accept multiple image formats as the users are not to be expected to format their image just right. In short it takes whatever image the user provides and then converts it to a PNG I can
- [Jillian McDonald and Creative Commons](https://www.geeked.info/jillian-mcdonald-and-creative-commons/) - I post most of my images on Flickr under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 Generic license. What does this mean? It means anyone is welcome to share my photos and even remix them as long as they attribute the photos to me and are not using them for commercial use. In addition, if you did
- [The Blue Angels in San Francisco](https://www.geeked.info/the-blue-angels-in-san-francisco/) - Yep, it's Fleet Week and the Blue Angels are out practicing. If you ask San Francisco residents what they think of these jets buzzing rumbling overhead, you'll get mixed reactions. I'm sure most of my friends have a few words to say based on their Twitters. Personally I'm on the fence. The constant sound of
- [Balsa Man at San Francisco Decompression](https://www.geeked.info/balsa-man-at-san-francisco-decompression/) - For those of you that missed Balsa Man this year because you were hanging out in a dust storm, this Sunday is your chance to experience some of the magic! There will be an official "Balsa Man Tiny Art Station" at the Burning Man SF Decompression from 12noon-10pm. It will be stocked with balsa wood,
- [Flying over the English Channel with a JetPack](https://www.geeked.info/flying-over-the-english-channel-with-a-jetpack/) - The future is here. Swiss adventurer/pilot Yves Rossy will be testing your jetpack tomorrow morning. He's going to attempt to fly over the English channel (a 23mile journey) with nothing but a pair of jets strapped to a wing on his back. He controls the throttle and steers with his body. National Geographic has been
- [Pabitra Kumar returns!](https://www.geeked.info/pabitra-kumar-returns/) - Pabitra, the not-so-good SEO, is back and this time he has a new approach. from pabitra to admin@[SITE].com date Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 2:11 AM subject SMO Service Hi, I am Pabitra Kumar, Marketing Manager Advertising in online world is one of most inexpensive and highly effective way of promoting a business. Along with
- [SEOs that don't do their homework, Pabitra](https://www.geeked.info/seos-that-dont-do-their-homework-pabitra/) - I run several websites, many of these rank #1 in Google results for their keywords. If they don't rank #1, then they're almost always on the front page. I keep an eye on search engine optimization and try my best at it. Occasionally I'll get an email from a so-called "professional SEO" who wants to
- [Burning Man and Communication: Cell phones on the playa](https://www.geeked.info/burning-man-and-communication-cell-phones-on-the-playa/) - For those that aren't familiar, Black Rock City is the temporary city that is built every year in the Black Rock Desert for Burning Man. I've been a couple times, skipped this year, but will probably be back in 2009 with Interpretive Arson. This year marked a strange year of communication from BRC. Those of
- [Too Many Domain Names](https://www.geeked.info/too-many-domain-names/) - I usually resist posting funny YouTube videos, but I figured this one might have some more widespread appeal since everyone knows my obsession with domain names (230+ and counting). Oops, just registered another one thanks to Rubin via Self Made Minds
- [Balsa Man: a diminute effigy for a reduced community!](https://www.geeked.info/balsa-man-a-diminute-effigy-for-a-reduced-community/) - Is it The Man or Balsa Man!?! Originally uploaded by catcubed There's a large number of people who didn't go to That Thing In The Desert this year. If you're one of those lucky ones enjoying showers, real beds, flushing toilets, and the beautiful weather of the Bay Area, but looking for something to do
- [San Francisco Suggestions](https://www.geeked.info/san-francisco-suggestions/) - I read a lot of blogs that run the gamut from industry stuff to just for fun stuff. On one of those blogs (you can guess which end of the spectrum it falls in I'm sure) a request for San Francisco establishments was requested. I commented on my suggestions, and then realized others might be
- [Mona Lisa painted in less than a second by paintballs](https://www.geeked.info/mona-lisa-painted-in-less-than-a-second-by-paintballs/) - This video is by far the winner of the "Coolest thing I've seen today" award. Mythbuster's Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman showed a crowd at NVISION 2008 the difference between a CPU and a GPU (well kind of). While not the most technically accurate demonstration (multi-core CPUs anyone?), it was definitely impressive. For the CPU,
- [Disqus Comment System Added](https://www.geeked.info/disqus-comment-system-added/) - Comments are both a love and a hate of mine. I love hearing back from people. It's great to hear suggestions, arguments, opinions, etc. What I hate is the spam from comments and the not so great Wordpress comment system. Don't get me wrong Wordpress, I know how much writing a good comment system sucks.
- [Quitting my day job](https://www.geeked.info/quitting-my-day-job/) - When I turned 25 it suddenly dawned on me that if I wanted to be successful and actually do something with my life I was solely responsible for making that happen. The next 3 years of my life saw me sitting down and building up a network of websites. It started as something I enjoyed
- [Blogging Merit Badge](https://www.geeked.info/blogging-merit-badge/) - I got my Blogging Merit Badge in the mail today! Being an Eagle Scout (explains the attraction to fire art, eh?) and a longtime blogger from before the ugly word was even coined, I knew I needed this merit badge as soon as I saw it on Boy Scout Store. They've got a whole section
- [Geeky Jewelry](https://www.geeked.info/geeky-jewelry/) - Stumbled across this on amazon.com this afternoon. It's something special. And it even comes in yellow-gold and white gold. Yes, those are diamonds. Email Twitter replies not your thing? Well there's also an ampersand and a question mark.
- [Violet Blue and Boing Boing Debacle](https://www.geeked.info/violet-blue-and-boing-boing-debacle/) - For those that don't know, Violet Blue is a well-known sex educator and Boing Boing is one of the most(?) popular blogs on the internet. If you haven't heard about Violet Blue's posts getting pulled from BoingBoing, there's more than enough press out there about it. Even the LA Times picked up the story. I
- [How to reset a Windows Vista password](https://www.geeked.info/how-to-reset-a-windows-vista-password/) - So you, er I mean "a friend", forgot your password on a Windows Vista machine that you haven't used in awhile. You would never forget a password, right? And now you need to get into the machine and don't want to blast away and install Windows fresh. If you use Windows XP you can just
- [Filling an office with packing peanuts, how to fake it](https://www.geeked.info/filling-an-office-with-packing-peanuts-how-to-fake-it/) - I've always wanted to do the packing peanuts prank at work, but it's usually prohibitively expensive and time consuming. Then I came across this page. A quick trip to the UPS store to purchase 28 cu ft of biodegradable packing peanuts (cost: $65), office supply store for paper and tape ($12), and a few beers
- [Escape from Berkeley: Racing to Vegas on alternative power](https://www.geeked.info/escape-from-berkeley-racing-to-vegas-on-alternative-power/)
- [Limited Edition Shepard Fairey posters for Obama](https://www.geeked.info/limited-edition-shepard-fairey-posters-for-obama/) - I got the twitter from Barack, bounced over to the store on his website and plunked down $70 to go towards his campaign. I have been meaning to contribute financially to Mr Obama, but had not gotten around to it. The announcement of limited edition Shepard Fairey posters spurred me to break out that credit
- [What if Lasik screws up?  Get a retinal implant](https://www.geeked.info/what-if-lasik-screws-up-get-a-retinal-implant/) - The number one question in my mind that deters me from laser eye surgery to correct my vision is "what if the doctor screws up and I'm blind?" My sight is an important part of my life, as it is for most people, and I can't imagine trying to function in life without it. I've
- [Nine Inch Nails releases album the right way](https://www.geeked.info/nine-inch-nails-releases-album-the-right-way/) - I truly believe that Trent Reznor "gets it" with his recent release of Ghosts in a variety of forms. For those that don't know, Ghosts is the latest album from Nine Inch Nails. Here's the announcement that came along with the release: Hello from Nine Inch Nails. We’re very proud to present a new collection
- [AudioSurf looks incredible](https://www.geeked.info/audiosurf-looks-incredible/) - AudioSurf is a "music-adapting puzzle racer where you use your own music to create your own experience" says Steam. In short, you choose the music and the game creates a board and game-play experience that is related to that music. I'm always a bit wary of all these games that say your own music can
- [New Macbook Pros from Apple](https://www.geeked.info/new-macbook-pros-from-apple/) - The internet blogs are awash in chatter about what Apple is announcing tomorrow. It seems like many are guessing that it will be new upgraded Macbook Pros (but there are also rumors now that it's just new Macbooks, guess we'll see tomorrow). Having just bought a Macbook Pro last month, one would think I'd be
- [AT-AT T-Shirts](https://www.geeked.info/at-at-t-shirts/) - mooflyfoof pointed me to these incredibly awesome shirts (of course after she got one for herself so now I can get one or else we'll match *fist shaking*). Not only is the design available on t-shirts, but also hoodies, and infant t-shirts. To clue in those not from the Bay Area: According to George Lucas,
- [Freeway Collapse in Oakland, CA](https://www.geeked.info/freeway-collapse-in-oakland-ca/) - For those that haven't heard yet, early Sunday morning (around 3:45am) a tanker truck carrying 8,600 gallons of gasoline crashed and exploded into flames (up to 200 feet tall) in what locals know as the MacArthur Maze. The heat from the resulting fire was so great that the on-ramp above the crash site melted and
- [Golden Gate Bridge collapses](https://www.geeked.info/golden-gate-bridge-collapses/) - Wikipedia just told me that the Golden Gate Bridge has collapsed. Hope nobody has to head north from the peninsula tonight!
- [Winston is a scam](https://www.geeked.info/winston-is-a-scam/) - I received the following email the other day: from Winston to admin@mydomain.com subject Have a question about the site... I had stopped by the site and took a look at your ranking and just wondered if you'd be at all interested in having your site appear on page 1 of Google, Yahoo, MSN and a
- [The MacBook Slow](https://www.geeked.info/the-macbook-slow/) - Don't want to have to wait for your MacBook Slow Air? You can get the world's thinnest laptop on eBay right now!
- [LASIK improving vision past 20/20](https://www.geeked.info/lasik-improving-vision-past-2020/) - A lot of the time, people forget that the term "body modification" extends beyond tattoos and piercings. Plastic surgery, removal of misbehaving organs, and correction of damaged senses are all still under the umbrella of body modification. For years I've been wearing contact lenses because my vision is, shall we say, less than perfect. It's
- [Introducing a Puddle of Frogs](https://www.geeked.info/introducing-a-puddle-of-frogs/) - Bits and Pieces has a post with a collection of collective nouns. You know, those weird terms you use to describe a group of things without using the word "group". Here's some of the more obscure ones: # drove of pigs # cartload of monkeys # kindle of cats (kittens) # rhumba of rattlesnakes #
- [Blogging from the past](https://www.geeked.info/blogging-from-the-past/) - For awhile now I've debated starting yet another blogging project. One where I blog about current events, but set them up so that they are posted 5,10,15, or more years in the future, but on the same date. Basically taking the idea of time-shifting and applying it to a blog. Well it looks like someone's
- [Floppy Disk CDRs](https://www.geeked.info/floppy-disk-cdrs/) - designboom is selling some unique CDRs. While they may look like floppy disks from the days of yore, these little square disks are actually writable CDRs. Each one is designed to fit 200 MB of data and comes with blue, red, green, and yellow labels so you can scrawl "stuff" on each just like back
- [BoingBoing Bingo](https://www.geeked.info/boingboing-bingo/) - It started with a twitter. And an idea started forming. The domain was available and instantly registered. Heather and I worked on the code, and I spent an afternoon downloading and cropping images from BoingBoing to illustrate each square. And now we bring to you... BoingBoing Bingo! It's simple really, just print out the board,
- [Photosynth blows my mind](https://www.geeked.info/photosynth-blows-my-mind/) - We saw this posted over on geeksugar and had to pick our jaw up off the floor. Photosynth is truly amazing technology and the fact that it works so quickly and smoothly is unbelievable. Imagine having gigs and gigs of photos and text accessible as fast as you can pan and zoom! Or taking images
- [Eye-Fi Wireless SD Card](https://www.geeked.info/eye-fi-wireless-sd-card/) - Eye-Fi Wireless SD Card Originally uploaded by edrabbit.Finally got a minute to setup my Eye-Fi card. I must say I'm very happy with the finished product so far. I was very very glad to have both the options to upload directly to Flickr as well as to upload to a folder on a local machine.
- [Fun With Perception](https://www.geeked.info/fun-with-perception/) - Two entertaining videos from Shaun Micallef, an Australian comedian, that use some pretty good camera and set tricks.
- [5.6 Earthquake in the Bay](https://www.geeked.info/56-earthquake-in-the-bay/) - Last night was an interesting evening. After meeting up with Rubin, Jake, and Audrey we headed to get sushi, only to find that BART was closed due to a suicide. Then during sushi at Miyabi, we thought we heard someone drop something in the kitchen. The sound was questioned, and we stopped eating to notice
- [Electronic Ink Tattoos](https://www.geeked.info/electronic-ink-tattoos/) - Every day it seems like we're living in a Neal Stephenson book more and more. While the thought of tattoos that change via technology is not necessarily new, this is the first time that I've really seen someone illustrating the concept in a video. And on top of the sexy video, the people behind this
- [Google turns out the lights](https://www.geeked.info/google-turns-out-the-lights/) - On Saturday, October 20, 2007, San Francisco will go black for one hour (8pm-9pm PST) as it participates in "Lights Out San Francisco". In addition, the citizens of SF are encouraged to install at least one compact fluorexcent light bulb to help reduce their energy consumption. In a show of their support, Google has changed
- [How not to get pierced](https://www.geeked.info/how-not-to-get-pierced/) - Today we bring you two videos of how not to get pierced, thanks to ModBlog (NSFW). While we've got nothing against piercing outside of professional studios as long as the person knows what they're doing, it's pretty obvious that the people in these videos don't. Well at least they had an idea to via Mod
- [Learn to type tattoo](https://www.geeked.info/learn-to-type-tattoo/) - Were you one of those kids in typign class that never could remember which key was where? Maybe you should have had the smarts to do what Nathan did. via modblog of course
- [How not to win my vote](https://www.geeked.info/how-not-to-win-my-vote/) - If you're running for public office, don't call/email/send me unsolicited campaign drivel. It just lets me know who NOT to vote for. On top of that, at least put my email address in the To field, so I know which one to unsubscribe without having to pull up the email headers. Email received (with my
- [Alcohol and Programming, the Ballmer Peak](https://www.geeked.info/alcohol-and-programming-the-ballmer-peak/) - xkcd has a great comic up that points out that I'm not the only one to notice the correlation between drinking and programming:
- [Math is fun!](https://www.geeked.info/math-is-fun/) - 739391133 73939113 7393911 739391 73939 7393 739 73 7 … are all prime. So are: 357686312646216567629137 57686312646216567629137 7686312646216567629137 686312646216567629137 86312646216567629137 6312646216567629137 312646216567629137 12646216567629137 2646216567629137 646216567629137 46216567629137 6216567629137 216567629137 16567629137 6567629137 567629137 67629137 7629137 629137 29137 9137 137 37 7 via
- [Geeky Scarification](https://www.geeked.info/geeky-scarification/) - I didn't really intended for Geeked.Info to turn into such a body modification focused site (ModBlog is the best site for that), but for some reason all the geeky body mods are coming to light on the internet lately. The latest is this set of computer related scarification. Those familiar with computers will recognize the
- [Segway, the beta version](https://www.geeked.info/segway-the-beta-version/) - via Kim Chee Blog
- [Windows Bluescreen Tattoo](https://www.geeked.info/windows-bluescreen-tattoo/) - We recently posted some geeky video game tattoos, but in the world of geek tattoos, this one definitely ranks pretty high up there. A guy named Paul got this homage to the part of Windows 98 that we all curse to this day done by Sam Rulz of Two Hands Tattoo in New Zealand. Wow....
- [Nintendo Tattoos](https://www.geeked.info/nintendo-tattoos/) - More "Gamer Ink" at www.thebbps.com. via BehindTheInk. Picture source: www.thebbps.com.
- [Power outage takes out major sites](https://www.geeked.info/power-outage-takes-out-major-sites/) - A series of power outages in San Francisco has taken a couple of pretty large sites out of commission. Those affected include: craigslist some SecondLife servers NetFlix LiveJournal, Vox, TypePad (and the rest of SixApart) Yelp Technorati AdBrite Some CurrentTV servers Some ZDNet blogs and the NSFW kink.com is also down... All of these sites
- [Lego Salt and Pepper Shakers](https://www.geeked.info/lego-salt-and-pepper-shakers/) - Finally, mom will let me bring my Legos to the dinner table! In a neat use of a childhood toy near and dear to my heart, designer Joel Hesselgren has put together a simple yet ingenous salt and pepper shaker made out of legos. Rather than create separate shakers, he combines them into one. By
- [Dali Elephant Cutting](https://www.geeked.info/dali-elephant-cutting/) - Like many of my body modification posts, this may not be for those that are squeamish and following any links in this post may lead you to NSFW material. This content is not for everyone. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. ModBlog brings us yet another incredible cutting. This time it's an elephant in the
- [Octapult - a kinetic sculpture](https://www.geeked.info/octapult-a-kinetic-sculpture/) - We stumbled upone this video and were strangely mesmerized. Something about the rhythmic movement and the sounds that it made were entrancing. The engineering behind it is beautiful and the resulting product is great. Here's what the artist has to say: The "Octapult" is a kinetic sculpture designed and built on commission by Bradley N.
- [The First Cell Phone Commercial](https://www.geeked.info/the-first-cell-phone-commercial/) - Almost 20 years old, here's the first commercial for the Centel cell phone/car phone from 1989! via GeekSugar
- [The Graffiti Project on Kelburn Castle](https://www.geeked.info/the-graffiti-project-on-kelburn-castle/) - Kelburn Castle, one of the oldest castles in Scotland to have been inhabited by the same family, got nailed with spray-paint. This pre-1200s castle is now the canvas for Brazilian graffiti by some of the top artists in the world. The aim of the project is to create great art "whilst challenging the public’s understanding
- [How to Tie Your Shoes in a Different Way](https://www.geeked.info/how-to-tie-your-shoes-in-a-different-way/) - Bored of the tried and true method of lacing and tying your shoes? Ian's got the cure for that boredom at his shoelace site. He has tons of new and interesting ways to lace and tie your shoes.
- [ASCII Curtains](https://www.geeked.info/ascii-curtains/) - Wow, I want a set of these. Beton & Garten (German site) via Neatorama
- [Avatar Machine Video](https://www.geeked.info/avatar-machine-video/) - Remember the avatar machine I posted about awhile back? Here's a video of it in action. It looks like it would be fun to see a whole new perspective on life.
- [Beautiful Fern Scarification](https://www.geeked.info/beautiful-fern-scarification/) - I'm usually not a huge fan of scarification as so many of them heal in unexpected ways. That's not to say I can't appreciate a gorgeous one when I see it. I was browsing through BMEZine's ModBlog (contains nudity and serious body modification) and came across this beautiful bit of scarification:
- [World's Longest and Fastest Zip-Line](https://www.geeked.info/worlds-longest-and-fastest-zip-line/) - 918ft high, 1.2 miles long, and speeds of up to 100mph!! Unfortunately this one requires a trip to South Africa.
- [Wet Cats](https://www.geeked.info/wet-cats/) - Because there's nothing more pathetically hilarious than a wet cat.
- [Warped Wallpaper](https://www.geeked.info/warped-wallpaper/) - I want some of this, but I imagine it would be prohibitively expensive to get it for my studio with all the molding and windows and whatnot. Regardless, a nice new take on wall decoration that makes you wonder "why didn't anyone think of this earlier?" surrealien.de via NextNature
- [Crossfire!](https://www.geeked.info/crossfire/) - Oh the memories... I lusted after this and my parents delivered one Christmas. For months afterwords we'd find the metal balls all over the house. And no, there was not a Tesla coil included in the box for the nice lightning effects. via Crunchgear. X-Entertainment's review
- [Animusic's Pipe Dream](https://www.geeked.info/animusics-pipe-dream/) - Ok, I might be dating myself some here, but this was a nice blast from the past:
- [Eyeball Tattoo](https://www.geeked.info/eyeball-tattoo/) - What's the last place on your body you would expect to get tattooed? Most people would answer the eyes. Not tattooed eyelids, but tattooing your eyeballs. Well not only is eyeball tattooing possible, it's also been done more often than you would think. BMEZine's wiki page states that it was commonplace before contact lenses as it could be used to cover up defects in damaged eyes. Usually this is performed on sightless eyes as there is a chance for infection and loss of sight. However recently an attempt was made on tattooing the sclera (the white part of your eye) of three guys with perfectly healthy eyes.
- [More Color Legends](https://www.geeked.info/more-color-legends/) - Why is Envy a Green Monster? Why is Ferrari Red Iconic of Sports Cars? Why Are Mental Institutions Light Green? Why Are Highlighters Bright Yellow? Why Does a Guy Get Blue Balls? Why is Purple A Royal Color? Why is The Red Cross, Red? Why Does the Tour de France Leader Wear a Yellow Jersey? Why Do US Immigrants Apply for a Green Card? Why Does a Bride Need Something Blue on her Wedding Day? Why Do Masters Golf Tournament Winners Get a Green Jacket? Why Do We Wear a Yellow Ribbon to Support the Troops? Why Are Some Americans True Blue?
- [Ten Piercings Gone Bad](https://www.geeked.info/ten-piercings-gone-bad/) - Sometimes piercings just go bad. They don't heal, they reject, they get infected, they get pulled out, and more. Sometimes this is due to poor piercing, other times due to poor aftercare of the piercings, and sometimes your body just doesn't want something in it. Here are the top ten "Piercings Gone Bad" that we found on one of our favorite body mod blogs, ModBlog. We're not posting the pictures here because they're pretty graphic, so follow the links if you think your stomach is strong enough to see them in their full color glory.
- [Eyeball Tattoo Updates](https://www.geeked.info/eyeball-tattoo-updates/) - Shannon has another update on the status of the eyeball tattoos I posted about earlier. The other two guys weren't experiencing any pain, but he had a bit and went to see an ophthalmologist. They ran a bunch of tests, and he was told that everything is looking alright, and the pain was most likely due to irritation of the muscles. He has pictures of his eye and Josh's eye, which are looking alright, although a bit irritated.
- [Coke in a Corn Field](https://www.geeked.info/coke-in-a-corn-field/) - What happens when a coked up driver being chased by the cops turns into a corn field? Anyone who has ever spent some time in a tall cornfield can just imagine the thoughts racing through his head. "Everywhere I turn, there's %$#"*&$# corn! Does it ever stop?!" Article via Boing Boing
- [Vertical Soccer Video](https://www.geeked.info/vertical-soccer-video/) - Advertising is a tough business to stand out in sometimes. Some companies do it incredibly poorly, whereas others are able to break through the massive amount of advertising in our market and leave an impression. Ten points to adidas for succeeding in Tokyo with the vertical soccer game on a billboard 10 stories high! The
- [Shaped Dermal Punches](https://www.geeked.info/shaped-dermal-punches/) - Anyone that's into body mod knows of Steve Haworth (or at least you should). He's one of the pioneers of body modification as art and has been quoted as saying "Flesh is my medium". He's responsible for a lot of the advances, tools, techniques, and ideas in this realm as well. I first heard about
- [WiTricity, Wireless Electricity](https://www.geeked.info/witricity-wireless-electricity/) - My dream come true. Thank you MIT. Article
- [Johan Lippowitz, interpretive miming](https://www.geeked.info/johan-lippowitz-interpretive-miming/) - Want to see what his duet with Natalie Imbruglia?
- [Technology-induced synaesthesia](https://www.geeked.info/technology-induced-synaesthesia/) - "See with your tongue. Navigate with your skin. Fly by the seat of your pants (literally). How researchers can tap the plasticity of the brain to hack our 5 senses — and build a few new ones." A great article over at Wired that speaks for itself. Anyone interested in body hacking shoudl definitely check
- [Internet in an Umbrella](https://www.geeked.info/internet-in-an-umbrella/) - Although I never carry an umbrella, I may change my ways when the Pileus Internet Umbrella hits the market. This umbrella manages to pack in a large screen, a built-in camera, a motion sensor, GPS, a digital compass, plus an Internet connection. It can determine where you are and pull up Google Earth to provide
- [Know who is talking about you on the Internet](https://www.geeked.info/know-who-is-talking-about-you-on-the-internet/) - Lifehacker has a great little how-to on using MonitorThis to keep tabs on certain subjects on the internet. Most people will use it for the obvious ego searching, but it's also handy for keeping on top of news on other subjects you're interested in. Learn how with Feed your ego with RSS.
- [How to Improve Your Night Vision](https://www.geeked.info/how-to-improve-your-night-vision/) - For many of us, the dark of the night is our friend, but how do you keep from barking your shins on the coffee table again? Ninja's never seem to have these problems. Instructable's user Sam Noyoun posted 10 tips on how to improve your night vision, including the old pirate eye-patch trick. This is
- [Microsoft Surface](https://www.geeked.info/microsoft-surface/) - SarcasticGamer has a great take on Microsoft's latest and greatest.
- [Vinyl on the Highway](https://www.geeked.info/vinyl-on-the-highway/) - I'm sure most people have heard the jokes about installing a record player in your car. But apparently it was actually something that was done at one point. An article over at Crave has more info. via Boing Boing via Bedazzled
- [Want an RSS feed?](https://www.geeked.info/want-an-rss-feed/) - I realized that I didn't have a prominent link to the RSS feed for this blog on the page and only had 7 subscribers who had managed to find the feed somehow. So I added a link to the sidebar. If you want to keep tabs on Geeked.Info via RSS, go ahea dand subscribe to
- [Bay Area Maker Faire 2007: Divining Pod, NifNaks, and SRL](https://www.geeked.info/bay-area-maker-faire-2007-divining-pod-nifnaks-and-srl/) - Wow, what an event. I only made it down for about half of one day and was astounded by the number of people as well as things that were there to see and do. Everyone and their brother who was within driving distance seems to have already reported on the event, but there were a
- [Avatar Machine](https://www.geeked.info/avatar-machine/) - So you spend a lot of time in World of Warcraft or maybe Second Life and you're not so used to tromping out into the real world due to the shift in perspective? The Avatar Machine can help you out with that. Built by design student Mark Owens, the Avatar Machine is "a system which
- [Langar: Free Vegetarian Food for Everyone](https://www.geeked.info/langar-free-vegetarian-food-for-everyone/) - Rubin sent over this link about a congressman who is attempting to live on food stamps, but had his peanut butter and jelly confiscated by the TSA when trying to fly. Comments on the state of our transportation security aside, this reminded me of something I had once seen in a television show awhile back,
- [Staying Sane: 10 ways to be more productive](https://www.geeked.info/staying-sane-10-ways-to-be-more-productive/) - If you're anything like me, you've got too many things going on. So many projects, ideas, tasks, etc are on the list to get done and it seems like there's never enough hours in the day. Sometimes it takes a little reminder of how to work more efficiently. Lifehack.org has a good little Ten-List of
- [Flickrvision](https://www.geeked.info/flickrvision/) - Because we all know you aren't wasting nearly enough time with Twittervision, along comes the even cooler, flickrvision. Thanks David Troy.
- [Lolstuff](https://www.geeked.info/lolstuff/) - With the Twitter fad no longer the top news, it seems like everyone is turning to Lolcats and Lolgeeks. I won't be the first to admit, I check ICanHasCheezburger every day. Lolgeeks every now and then and it's not nearly as cute. But this one made me actually lol.
- [World-Record Rocket Launch](https://www.geeked.info/world-record-rocket-launch/) - The Austin, TX Cub Scout Pack 990 and Boy Scout Troop 990 decided that the current world record for most model rockets launched at once was weak, only 399 at once. The idea was pitched by Cub Scout Ethan Phillips and his father, and the scouts were able to raise $8,000 to cover the materials.
- [Rube Goldberg + Fire = Awesomeness](https://www.geeked.info/rube-goldberg-fire-awesomeness/) - I like fire. I like Rube Goldberg contraptions. There's a Rube Goldberg contraption that uses fire. I don't think anything else needs to be said. Just watch the video...
- [Image Upload Plugin for Wordpress](https://www.geeked.info/image-upload-plugin-for-wordpress/) - I hate Wordpress 2.x's handling of images. Yes, I said it. In fact this one feature has kept some of my blogs on Wordpress 1.x just because I like the plugin I found for uploading images and creating thumbnails all from a web interface, no need to load Photoshop. I just discovered that this plugin
- [Wallpeppr: Paint with Flickr](https://www.geeked.info/wallpeppr-paint-with-flickr/) - How would you like to take your favorite image from Flickr and "paint" it directly onto your wall? The Wallpeppr, designed by Carlo Jorges, was designed to do just that. The Wallpeppr is a roller that uses inkjet-technology to print out an image transferred to it via a network cable. It's pitched as working with
- [Measure your Internet Connection](https://www.geeked.info/measure-your-internet-connection/) - Looking to see how fast of a download speed you have? Or maybe you're wanting to measure your upstream. InternetFrog has you covered with the coolest looking connection speed test applet I've seen so far.
- [Post a number, get banned on Digg](https://www.geeked.info/post-a-number-get-banned-on-digg/) - Looks like Digg is getting into some hot water with their users. A story was posted on Digg with the key needed to decrypt HD-DVD. It quickly got 15,000+ Diggs, making it the 3rd most popular story ever. Then it disappeared. We're not even going to get into it, but here's a story that has
- [Great Color Legends](https://www.geeked.info/great-color-legends/) - Ever wondered why a stop sign is red? Dollar bills are green? or maybe what the story is behind the green M&Ms? COLOURlovers has done a bit of research and has some answers in their recent post, The Great Color Legends. Did you know that pink used to be a boy's color and blue was
- [Naked Paris Hilton Autopsy Sculpture](https://www.geeked.info/naked-paris-hilton-autopsy-sculpture/) - Yeah, we knew we'd grab you with the "Naked Paris Hilton" headline. But unless you're some sort of twisted coroner, this isn't the kind of sculpture for you. A sculpture of a naked Paris Hilton, post autopsy and with "removable innards" is being used in a Public Service Announcement to deter prom-goers from drinking and
- [Google Concept Phone](https://www.geeked.info/google-concept-phone/) - Some guys over at Dog Orgod (Chinese site) put together some concept renderings of what the Google Phone that doesn't exist might look like. My Chinese is beyond rusty, so I'm not sure what the all the pieces are, but it looks slick. Just another bit of eye candy to fuel the Google phone dreams
- [Stephen Hawking Experiences Weightlessness](https://www.geeked.info/stephen-hawking-experiences-weightlessness/) - Everyone's favorite theoretical physicist got a chance to experience zero gravity yesterday. Stephen Hawking had a chance to escape his wheelchair and floated around a plane specially designed to provide the experience of weightlessness. Thanks to Virgin's,, Richard Branson, it didn't cost him a dime. The smile on his face describes it all.
- [24 Hours of Flickr](https://www.geeked.info/24-hours-of-flickr/) - There's a new group over at Flickr, everyone's favorite photo sharing site. The plan? To capture on day, 24 hours, in the life of the global Flickr community. On May 5th, 2007, they are asking everyone to grab their camera and document their day via photos. If you've got the ability to toss in the
- [Open Source Second Life](https://www.geeked.info/open-source-second-life/) - Wow, Linden Labs is open sourcing the server code for Second Life so anyone can run the sim. Granted not many of us have the power to run this, but a company like Google or IBM could. But this means that one company won't necessarily have control of the Second Life grid. I haven't had
- [Anil Dash has a bukkit!](https://www.geeked.info/anil-dash-has-a-bukkit/) - When I heard that there was a print magazine dedicated to blogging and podcasting, my brain skipped a beat. What? Why in the world? How do they expect this to be financially successful? Don't they know that bloggers are more comfortable online than with any other media? Jason Kottke expressed similar thoughts and proposed that
- [Buy Your Friend A Drink](https://www.geeked.info/buy-your-friend-a-drink/) - Ahh the currency of many a friendly exchange, the "drink". Usually this token is only redeemable when the people involved are at the same bar, until now that is. Prompted by the desire to buy friends a drink even though the lived several states away, Steven Cohn setup the site BuyYourFriendADrink.com. Right now it's limited
- [The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge](https://www.geeked.info/the-san-francisco-oakland-bay-bridge/) - This may be more interesting to the Bay Area locals, but I figured other people might find it neat as well. This is an old newsreel about the Bay Bridge opening up back in 1936. I love the style with which this news is presented. It's exciting and sensational and for good reason. Some fun
- [Christopher Conte](https://www.geeked.info/christopher-conte/) - Unbelievably gorgeous sculptures from Christopher Conte. Articulated insects, stainless steel arms, and more. Thanks to jwz
- [Tracking Web Statistics and Clicks with CrazyEgg](https://www.geeked.info/tracking-web-statistics-and-clicks-with-crazyegg/) - One of the hardest things about running websites is figuring out exactly how people interact with it. Where did they come from? What part of the site brought them to it? What did they click on when they saw the page? What did they read? Did they like the site? What could have made their
- [PHP to quickly rename files based on a CSV](https://www.geeked.info/php-to-quickly-rename-files-based-on-a-csv/) - I love php/mysql. Almost all of my sites are written with this pair. I decided earlier this week that I needed to launch a new site. Basically splitting off part of an existing site into its own site. The code was already written and luckily I had kept it in my head to keep it
- [Second Life attacked (again)](https://www.geeked.info/second-life-attacked-again/) - I've been on the road for the last week, moving to San Francisco, and haven't had a chance to jump on Second Life. That's not such a bad thing as I might not have been able to log in yesterday even if I had the chance. The griefers are back at it, trying to ruin
- [The Fountain - Aronofsky's latest almost here](https://www.geeked.info/the-fountain-aronofskys-latest-almost-here/) - I love films by Darren Aronofsky. Alright, well maybe love isn't the right word for both films I've seen. Pi is one of my favorite films, and I can watch it over and over. Like the companion that you always enjoy conversing with and spending time with. Requiem for a Dream is an incredibly powerful
- [I do not like Internet Explorer](https://www.geeked.info/i-do-not-like-internet-explorer/) - Due to IE not displaying the site correctly, we've moved back to a simple layout while we figure out what in the world is wrong. Everything displays exactly how we want it in Firefox, but in IE the side menus were missing, posts wouldn't show, images wouldn't low, and the digg buttons wouldn't display. And
- [Piercings Gone Bad](https://www.geeked.info/piercings-gone-bad/) - Piercing is safe if you know what you're doing and you listen to your body. People have been piercing their body parts for thousands of years. However, with body piercing moving into the mainstream in the last decade or two, and more and more people getting pierced, it's not suprising for the media to pick
- [Dramatic Chipmunk..err prairie dog](https://www.geeked.info/dramatic-chipmunk/) - The source The Remixes: (NSFW Audio)

## Pages

- [Quick and Dirty Things](https://www.geeked.info/quick-and-dirty-things/) - I find a lot of solutions to problems that don't necessarily warrant a full blog post. Here's where they end up so others searching for answers can find them. Linux Error when trying to print with lpr When trying to print (on a recently setup Debian Linux box) from the command line with "lpr file-to-print.txt"
- [About](https://www.geeked.info/about/) - Ed Hunsinger is a geek, programmer, fire artist, prankster, body modifier, business owner, web enthusiast, photographer, traveler, resident of San Francisco, domain addict, and more. He is responsible for Free For All Media, Inc., Geeky Tattoos, Hiptop3, Sidekick-Themes, and several other sites. He is a member of Interpretive Arson, a Bay Area fire art group,

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