Geekfoolery

There is supposed to be a time as young men grow into adulthood when the ancient tribal secrets of power tools are passed down from the village elders to the next generation, probably during a primal jungle ceremony, or deep in the remote outback desert, gathered in a circle around a sacred fire, and a […]

Previously, I’ve talked about free, open source applications like Open Office and Sauerbraten, and of course, Linux in its many flavors.
Today I am reaching for the sky, with an astronomy program that is a viable alternative to the venerable Starry Night astronomy software.
But first, a quick run down of Starry Night. Starry Night has been […]

I really enjoy games like Medal of Honor and Battlefield 1942 and others in the genre of the first-person shooter. I don’t always have the patience to get through the narrative of the single player mode story, and sometimes I just like to connect to closest server and trip over my feet a couple […]

It’s pretty much a given that worldwide, kids are fountains of boundless energy that could solve global warming if we could just direct that energy into something useful, instead of say, Pokémon. Some folks got the idea and came up with the Play Pump for villages in Africa. It’s an ordinary piece of kid’s playground […]

Hats. Simple and functional, most of the time, but there’s more to a hat than just keeping your head warm or dry. A generation ago, no man would be seen in public without one. Today, most people wear a hat to make a point, though some are functional. Here now a list, in no particular […]

If you’ve bought any Sony Entertainment DVDs lately, you might not be able to watch them, thanks to a new DRM scheme that Sony is putting on movies like Casino Royale and Stranger than Fiction. The weirdest thing about this is that even if you have a Sony DVD player, you still may be out […]