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Steamcon III photos of steampunk enthusiasts
Steampunk fans convened in Seattle recently for Steamcon III. This gallery showcases some of the ornate costumes attendees wore to the event.
Posted by Mary Weilage | October 24, 2011, 5:47 AM PDT
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Geek costumes galore at New York Comic Con 2011
Dogs, kids, and adults all showed up dressed in their best costumes for New York Comic Con 2011. See photos from the geeky event.
Posted by Mary Weilage | October 24, 2011, 5:42 AM PDT
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Pandas lead the way: Mists of Pandaria expansion for World of Warcraft
A new expansion pack for World of Warcraft is on the way: Mists of Pandaria. Yes, we are talking Pandas dressed like monks.
Posted by Mark Kaelin | October 21, 2011, 1:36 PM PDT
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Geek Gifts 2011: Sangean RCR-10 Atomic Clock Radio with iPod Dock
Wake up on time with quantum precision to your favorite music straight off your iPod with the Sangean RCR-10 Atomic Clock Radio.
Posted by Mark Kaelin | October 21, 2011, 8:35 AM PDT | Latest comment by Slayer_
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Will a hacker cause World War III?
Patrick Lambert discusses whether he thinks World War III will be caused by a rogue hacker.
Posted by Patrick Lambert | October 21, 2011, 7:41 AM PDT | Latest comment by crcgraphix
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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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Geek Gifts 2011: Star Trek and Philosophy: The Wrath of Kant
If you're looking for a gift for someone who likes Star Trek or has an interest in learning the basics of philosophy, check out this book.
Posted by Wally Bahny | October 20, 2011, 4:34 PM PDT | Latest comment by Seotop
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Geek Trivia: What outside group forces the Large Hadron Collider to shut down every winter?
The Large Hadron Collider answers to an agency that forces the installation to shut down for over three weeks every winter -- and for a reason most don't expect.
Posted by Jay Garmon | October 14, 2011, 6:57 AM PDT | Latest comment by Awahili Guni
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Geek Gifts 2011: Nintendo 3DS
The Nintendo 3DS is cool, portable, and relatively inexpensive, which makes it an easy contender for one of the top handheld gaming devices on the market.
Posted by Sonja Thompson | October 13, 2011, 5:00 AM PDT | Latest comment by robo_dev
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GeekGirlCon 2011: A celebration of women geeks
Seattle recently hosted the first GeekGirlCon. These photos of the event feature the Costume Masquerade, the panels, kiddo attendees, and more.
Posted by Mary Weilage | October 12, 2011, 1:38 PM PDT | Latest comment by brettwar
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Geek Gifts 2011: Motorola S305 Bluetooth stereo headset
The Motorola S305 Bluetooth stereo headset makes listening to your mobile devices in private as easy as pushing a button.
Posted by Mark Kaelin | October 12, 2011, 8:39 AM PDT
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Geek Gifts 2011: Pioneer VSX-1020-K 7.1 Home Theater Receiver
The Pioneer VSX-1020-K 7.1 Home Theater Receiver is a good example of a digital-friendly receiver that can handle input from many devices.
Posted by Mark Kaelin | October 11, 2011, 2:41 AM PDT
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2011 Parsec Awards winners for speculative fiction podcasts
Maggie Clark, Scott Sigler, and Nathan Lowell are just three of the winners of this year's Parsec Awards, which Ed Woychowsky calls the audio equivalent of the Hugo.
Posted by Edmond Woychowsky | October 10, 2011, 11:53 PM PDT
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Geek Gifts 2011: Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood isn't the newest video game on the market, but it will provide you with hours of visual and mental entertainment.
Posted by Sonja Thompson | October 10, 2011, 8:19 AM PDT
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Photos from El Paso Comic Con 2011
Check out TechRepublic member desizemo's photos from El Paso Comic Con 2011. Costumes featured include Captain America, a steampunk outfit, Wolverine, and more.
Posted by Mary Weilage | October 7, 2011, 8:42 AM PDT | Latest comment by Seotop
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Four geeky book series that need to be on TV, now
Four genre book series -- either comics or prose -- most ripe for conversion to an ongoing small screen franchise.
Posted by Jay Garmon | October 7, 2011, 8:13 AM PDT | Latest comment by OurITLady
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October 2011 sky calendar for the Northern Hemisphere
If you plan to do some stargazing this month, this handy guide highlights what to expect when you look to the night sky.
Posted by Nicole Bremer Nash | October 6, 2011, 9:20 AM PDT | Latest comment by richard.stroud@...
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Still reading banned books
Avid reader Edmond Woychowsky discusses 10 books that were banned or challenged in 2010 and 2011.
Posted by Edmond Woychowsky | September 30, 2011, 8:42 AM PDT | Latest comment by Leon Tribe
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Geek Trivia: What English town is infamous for its role in testing early profanity filters?
There's a computer security term for sorting issues involving dangerous plaintext words. The term is named after an English township that famously ran afoul of some early online profanity filters.
Posted by Jay Garmon | September 30, 2011, 2:14 AM PDT | Latest comment by wendygoerl@...
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Vote for your favorite Nikon Small World photomicrograph
The 2011 Small World Photomicrography Competition Popular Vote is open until Monday, October 31. Vote for your favorites images from the more than 100 finalists chosen by this year's panel of judges.
Posted by Sonja Thompson | September 26, 2011, 6:13 AM PDT
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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 Slayer_
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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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The humorous side of IT
Some geek humor is only appreciated by IT pros. Alan Norton discusses clueless user stories, silly names, and more, as well as when humor and IT don't mix.
Posted by Alan Norton | July 8, 2011, 6:08 AM PDT | Latest comment by dskyner1111@...
