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inventionDB
The Invention Resource Database is a a searchable wiki-like archive of creative projects and how-tos.This post originally appeared on an external website
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 5, 2005, 12:00 PM PST
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Discovery disproves simple concept of memory as 'storage space'
Researchers at the University of Oregon used new brain-measurement techniques to determine that high scorers for visual working memory tests aren't cramming more material into their brains, but...
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 5, 2005, 12:00 PM PST
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Experts: Introverted youth have deep roots for behavior - Yahoo! News
Summary version: introverts use their frontal lobes more than extraverts.This post originally appeared on an external website
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 5, 2005, 12:00 PM PST
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Many-to-Many: Jimbo's Problems: A Free Culture Manifesto
10 itellectual property items that must be wikitizedThis post originally appeared on an external website
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 5, 2005, 12:00 PM PST
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Singularity! - A Tough Guide to the Rapture of the Nerds
A wiki guide to the science fiction concept of a technocultural SIngularityThis post originally appeared on an external website
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 5, 2005, 12:00 PM PST
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Geek Trivia: The cold hard truth
Why are meteorites an unlikely cause of earthbound explosions or fires?This post originally appeared on an external website
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 5, 2005, 12:00 PM PST
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Surprise! Computer scientists model the exclamation point
Scientists have modeled surprise in the form of a mathematical theory. The computational model is capable of predicting what stimuli an individual will pay attention to amidst the flood of sensory...
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 5, 2005, 12:00 PM PST
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Will Sony's PS3 Suffer?
With all the news surrounding Sony's DRM rootkit debacle, what kind of impact will this have on its PS3 sales?This post originally appeared on an external website
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 5, 2005, 12:00 PM PST
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Xbox 360 to support iPods but not iTunes?
One of the coolest features of the Xbox 360 is its ability to stream music from iPods...but it doesn't support playback of songs purchased from Apple's iTunes online music store.This post...
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 5, 2005, 12:00 PM PST
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Men and women found more similar than portrayed in popular media
The popular media has portrayed men and women as psychologically different as two planets – Mars and Venus - but these differences are vastly overestimated and the two sexes are more similar in...
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 5, 2005, 12:00 PM PST
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Cruise ship Britons attacked by pirates
Pirates off the Horn of Africa were foiled from robbing a cruise liner by a radar-dish structured device that emits sonic blasts.This post originally appeared on an external website
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 5, 2005, 12:00 PM PST
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Regeneration: University of Utah News Release: November 24, 2005
Scientists at the University of Utah believe they have discovered the gene responsible for cellular regeneration in planarian worms. Variants of that gene exist in plants, animals and human...
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 5, 2005, 12:00 PM PST
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The cost of online anonymity
In the second report looking at privacy and the internet, Dan Simmons examines whether it is possible to be totally anonymous and asks if this is really a desirable thing.This post originally...
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 5, 2005, 12:00 PM PST
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What's the buzz? Teens can't stand it
Device, which emits high-frequency sound that can be heard by most people under 20, is meant to drive troublemakers away.This post originally appeared on an external website
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 5, 2005, 12:00 PM PST
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Looking for free software experts
My colleague RexWorld sent me this little distress signal earlier today. If you think you qualify, send him (not me) a private message. "Hey, if you...might be interested in picking up some IS/IT...
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 1, 2005, 10:18 AM PST
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Google assimilation pt. 2: The Borg cube
I, Cringley has posted his followup to last week's prediction of a Google-powered parallel darknet that would multiply the performance of the Internet while simultaneously making Google the most...
Posted by Jay Garmon | November 29, 2005, 8:48 AM PST
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Amateur mythbusting: Shooting open padlocks
My unknowing Jedi Master Charles Stross pointed out this little bit of amateur mythbusting: The universal movie gimmick of someone shooting open a padlock is debunked in fairly scientific fashion...
Posted by Jay Garmon | November 23, 2005, 8:06 AM PST
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Why I don't read Harry Potter
Cherie Priest (via Whatever) wins the Unofficial Trivia Geek Quote-of-the-Random-Interval Contest: "This is why I haven't read the Harry Potter books -- for much the same reason that I've never...
Posted by Jay Garmon | November 22, 2005, 1:12 PM PST
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Google becomes Wal-mart, assimilates Internet
I, Cringely (found via Futurismic) has another wacko theory about the future of tech: Google will steal a page from the Wal-Mart playbook, effectively leveraging its existing cash on hand to buy...
Posted by Jay Garmon | November 22, 2005, 12:55 PM PST
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Xbox Live brat gets busted by Google video
Once again, I'm stealing from John Scalzi, who pointed out this little gem of a Google video, wherein a 9-year-old kid curses out his mom for refusing to bring him some chocolate milk while he...
Posted by Jay Garmon | November 21, 2005, 12:19 PM PST
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The 11 Star Trek movies ranked worst to first
We've assembled a roll call of the worst episodes of every single Star Trek series. Now it's time to measure the worst and the best of Trek's silver screen adventures.
Posted by Jay Garmon | January 19, 2012, 1:17 PM PST | Latest comment by cmiller5400
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The five best Star Trek: Voyager episodes of all time!
Even Voyager haters have to concede the show flirted with greatness at times, as these five episodes ably demonstrate.
Posted by Jay Garmon | June 14, 2012, 11:23 AM PDT | Latest comment by Nytrydr
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The five best Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes of all time
Jay Garmon ranks the top five episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. See if your favorite TNG episode is on his list.
Posted by Jay Garmon | March 15, 2012, 9:05 AM PDT | Latest comment by swjslj@...
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The five best Deep Space Nine episodes of all time!
The five Deep Space Nine episodes that defied typical Star Trek boundaries and defined the franchise's most daring and unorthodox spinoff series.
Posted by Jay Garmon | May 17, 2012, 7:40 AM PDT | Latest comment by sniperlt@...
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The five worst Star Trek episodes of all time
More than a few of Kirk and Spock's original voyages were (ahem) less than stellar. We round out the bottom five for your reading...pleasure?
Posted by Jay Garmon | August 26, 2011, 5:00 AM PDT | Latest comment by P.F. Bruns
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The five worst Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes EVER!
Star Trek: The Next Generation is perhaps the pinnacle of the Trek franchise, which makes these five bottom-feeder episodes even more embarrassing.
Posted by Jay Garmon | September 23, 2011, 3:54 AM PDT | Latest comment by kevin_flynn
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The five best Star Trek episodes EVER!
Behold the five greatest Star Trek episodes ranked fifth to first.
Posted by Jay Garmon | February 17, 2012, 7:03 AM PST | Latest comment by NickNielsen
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75 words every sci-fi fan should know
Textbook barons Houghton Mifflin have of late proclaimed 100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know. But if you're going to learn obscure words and concepts, it may as well be terms you're...
Posted by Jay Garmon | January 14, 2008, 6:24 AM PST | Latest comment by ankits3a
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The five worst Star Trek: Voyager episodes EVER!
Voyager is rarely held up as the high point of the Trek franchise, but these five Delta Quadrant dumpster-fires are indisputably the lowest episodes of the low.
Posted by Jay Garmon | November 18, 2011, 6:23 AM PST | Latest comment by Rbrehm5912
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20 things that make Dr. Sheldon Cooper TV's biggest geek
What makes The Big Bang Theory's Dr. Sheldon Cooper so geeky? TechRepublic contributor Edmond Woychowsky shares his list of top 20 reasons.
Posted by Edmond Woychowsky | July 6, 2010, 4:05 PM PDT | Latest comment by wildcat375
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The five best Star Trek: Enterprise episodes of all time!
Say what you will about Enterprise, but these five episodes are worthy of the name "Star Trek."
Posted by Jay Garmon | July 12, 2012, 3:53 PM PDT | Latest comment by ffulton
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The top 25 best-selling video games...EVER!
Some folks are hyping Halo 3 as potentially the most successful video game ever, but a quick look at sales figures past shows that to be extremely unlikely--especially considering how low Halo 2...
Posted by Jay Garmon | September 25, 2007, 12:28 PM PDT | Latest comment by Paul.Witting@...
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20 gift ideas for Star Wars fans
The LEGO Star Wars Death Star, the Jedi training manual, and a Yoda nutcracker are just three of the items featured in our Star Wars themed gift guide.
Posted by Wally Bahny | November 28, 2011, 12:42 PM PST | Latest comment by zizzleshizzle
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The five worst Star Trek: Enterprise episodes EVER!
Enterprise is indisputably the least popular of the Star Trek TV series, but there's bad, and then there are these five continuity-confounding franchise-killers.
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 16, 2011, 8:12 AM PST | Latest comment by ydontugivemelotsofkiss
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The five worst Deep Space Nine episodes EVER!
The five most wormhole-sucking episodes in the history of Deep Space Nine, complete with unforgiving breakdowns.
Posted by Jay Garmon | October 21, 2011, 7:25 AM PDT | Latest comment by revelated
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Kurzweil: Your brain will connect directly to the cloud within 30 years
By the 2030s or 2040s, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil envisions micro-computers embedded non-invasively in the brain that will act as an interface to a "cloud" of storage and processing power.
Posted by Ken Hardin | November 27, 2012, 8:50 AM PST | Latest comment by Kostaghus
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Pic: The true story behind Pac-Man
Back before the days of cinematic cut scenes, tie-in novels and movie adaptations, video gamers had to presume much of the backstory for their beloved pixelated pastimes. Pac-Man, however, seemed...
Posted by Jay Garmon | May 22, 2008, 12:01 AM PDT
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20+ gift ideas for Star Trek fans
Geekend contributor Wally Bahny selected Star Trek-themed items for men, women, and babies for this gift guide.
Posted by Wally Bahny | November 30, 2011, 7:59 AM PST
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Sci-fi rant: Why giant mecha robots are stupid
The next person who says "I can't wait until the Army develops real mecha" gets a boot to the head, because in real life, giant robots are actually really stupid. Here's why.
Posted by Jay Garmon | February 6, 2008, 8:42 AM PST | Latest comment by CharlieSpencer_Palmetto
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The Geekend's fall 2012 sci-fi and fantasy TV preview
Which fall 2012 sci-fi/fantasy TV shows should earn time on your DVR hard drive, and which are unworthy of even Internet forum scorn?
Posted by Jay Garmon | August 9, 2012, 9:31 AM PDT | Latest comment by pgit
