Geekfoolery

Forget getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. George Takei, known to Trekkies as Hikaru Sulu of the Starship Enterprise, has an asteroid named after him now. The rock was first spotted in 1994 by Japanese astronomers and as we all know was named 1994 GT9. It’s going to take a while to […]

The simplest, most obvious move can often be the boldest.
Amazon.com is now selling plain vanilla MP3 downloads from their web portal. Although the move follows Apple’s deal with EMI to sell DRM-free tracks for 30 cents more earlier this year (Apple’s iTunes Plus tracks are also recorded at a higher bit rate for better sound […]

During the full moon this Saturday, I was reminded of how from time to time, the gadget gremlins conspire against us.
Back in November, 1969, Apollo 12 landed on the moon, the second time mankind had made the giant leap. The first time around, four months earlier, the whole world watched as Neil Armstrong hopped around […]

(Apologies to Aretha Franklin. And apologies to my high school English teacher who would insisted that it’s “Who’s Zune-ing whom,” but then, he would have preferred to listen to “You aren’t anything but a hound dog” and “I can’t get any satisfaction,” so what can you do. But I digress.)
Zunewatch 2007 update, no Zunes sighted, […]

(I am assisted today by the two geeklings in the Mr. Alex home, who are greater Harry Potter fans than I)
The seventh and final Harry Potter book comes out midnight on Friday, an event long awaited by the two geeklings in the house. We’re going to be there at the stroke of midnight as the […]

This is, we have been told, the push-button world of the future. The world is our oyster, and we command great power at the end of our fingertips–simply push, and anything from a cup of coffee to nuclear war can be ours.
But there are some buttons in this world that just don’t work. Don’t argue […]