MetaFilter posts tagged with geeky

"Hello my Geeklings!"

Del Far — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:30:09 -0800

GeeksOn "A show created by Geeks for Geeks, covering topics that Geeks like to talk about." This is one of my favorite podcasts out there, most topics they cover are talked about in a very smart manner with lots of philosophy and moral quandaries thrown in, and they have gone on to get some great interviews with various people in Geek culture including Christina Hendricks, who plays Saffron from Firefly, and its Producer, Lisa Lassek(Christina is the sister of one of the geeks), Orson Scott Card, George R.R. Martin, Forrest J Ackerman, Garrett Wang, and the man himself Joss Whedon! To point you in the direction of some really interesting topic based episodes, try out any of these episodes: Time Travel, Geek Humor, Geek Nature Vs. Nurture, Could You Fall In Love With A Robot?, Superhero-Vigilante ethics, Geek Love, an All Girl Geek episode, Non-Mainstream Comic Books, Geek Addictions, Videogame Violence, Geeks on Reality TV, there is still a whole lot more so just look through the Archives yourself and see if you find anything that interests you.

Run-Stop/Restore

MrGuilt — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:01:50 -0800

The Commodore 64, many geek's first love, is turning 25. You can relive the glory, and still find a lot of the old software. Even more surprising is how much is still being done with it. Someone ported vi to it (obviously not EMACS). Somone else wrote a browser. For the ultimate, a souped up motherboard merges the C64 with contemporary peripherals.

Ctrl C

domdom — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 09:43:33 -0800

Top 10 Clipboard Tricks: One of the greatest features the point and click interface brought to personal computers is the clipboard - that invisible, temporary shelf you use more times per day than Google. If you think the clipboard is only about Ctrl+C, you're missing out. Several utilities can turbocharge your clipboard and track, transfer and reformat the clipboard to your heart's content...

by the numbers

madamjujujive — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 19:59:43 -0800

Pi to 1,000 places on piano is just one of the many catchy tunes on math sonifications. And check out more interesting things on on artist Tom Dukich's site.

I [Heart] Charts and Graphs

Monochrome — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:43:16 -0800

Data analysis, brought to you by Big Blue, is following a trend. Data has never been more social. Geeks and statistics groupies used to be isolated, but the internet is changing that. Ever pine for a pile of Excel spreadsheets? Have you tried running an ANOVA on a year's worth of traffic data? You're not alone. New sites add sociability to cold hard facts; take a look at the "YouTube for data" or IBM's Many Eyes. Both sites induce squeals of delight from anyone who's ever felt Tuftian. What's next? One word: infornography. Please, keep your Standard Deviation jokes to yourself.

Finding a girlfriend is a impossible - the proff

bigmusic — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:29:58 -0800

Mathematical proof Mathematical proof that it is impossible to find a girlfriend. "Without going into the specifics of precisely which traits I admire, I will say that for a girl to be considered really beautiful to me, she should fall at least two standard deviations above the norm." -pdf here- via

Gaz — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 09:46:13 -0800

Star Wars on telnet. It only gets about halfway through, but still an amazing effort.

baylink — Wed, 09 May 2001 13:29:52 -0800

In looking for a Hurricane Andrew image to illustrate a point on the ham radio thread, I came across evidence that the weather geeks may be the geekiest of all. Cool pull quote inside.

baylink — Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:54:20 -0800

Courtesy of CamWorld, Here is what XML is really all about.

billpena — Wed, 21 Jun 2000 00:57:41 -0800

This could be your sysadmins ...