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Archive: 09-2008

• Geek Trivia: Advanced Python scripting

  Besides the six actual members of Monty Python — Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin — who are the only two people ever credited as...

  Posted by Jay Garmon | September 30, 2008, 5:02 AM PDT

• Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for Sept. 30, 2008

  This week’s quibble comes from the Sept. 23, 2008 edition of Geek Trivia, “One for the money, two for the tow.” TechRepublic member rsprinkle noticed that The Trivia Geek...

  Posted by Jay Garmon | September 30, 2008, 5:01 AM PDT

• Don't panic, post-Adams Hitchhiker's novel on the way

  The fact that Douglas Adams died a few years ago won’t stop another Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy novel being written (hat tip, SF Signal). But is that a good thing?

  Posted by Jay Garmon | September 29, 2008, 5:00 AM PDT

• The worst science fiction TV shows

  Jerry Taylor invites your comments on the worst of science fiction television.

  Posted by Jerry Taylor | September 27, 2008, 8:51 PM PDT

• Geek Gifts 2008: The 2GoPC ultra-portable Classmate netbook

  Mark Kaelin reviews the 2GoPC from Computer Technology Link (CTL) for the TechRepublic Geek Gift Guide 2008.

  Posted by Mark Kaelin | September 26, 2008, 1:27 PM PDT

• T-shirt of the week: Weyland-Yutani Corp

  This week’s tee advertises the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. You may remember them as the futuristic multinational that operated the interstellar mining vessel Nostromo or set up the...

  Posted by Jay Garmon | September 26, 2008, 5:00 AM PDT

• Webcomic: Internet tabbing addiction

  Internet access + attention deficit disorder = this brilliant xkcd comic.

  Posted by Jay Garmon | September 25, 2008, 5:00 AM PDT

• Babylon 5: And so, it begins...

  Jerry Taylor encourages you to check out the first season of the sci-fi series Babylon 5 online.

  Posted by Jerry Taylor | September 24, 2008, 11:04 PM PDT

• 10 sci-fi technologies that just might happen

  We’ll never travel faster than light, have personalized spacecraft, or answer the ultimate questions of existence? The Trivia Geek would care to disagree.

  Posted by Jay Garmon | September 24, 2008, 5:00 AM PDT

• There is a song in my head and I can't get it out - so I share

  Mark Kaelin wonders where he has heard a certain song before and worries about what it means to fixate on a song from a computer game you have never played.

  Posted by Mark Kaelin | September 23, 2008, 1:55 PM PDT