Geekfoolery

Once again, the film industry is working itself up into its annual lather to hand out prizes to Hollywood’s versions of Employee of the Month. As usual, no one I know has seen, or in some cases, even heard of the movies in contention. So instead, I am going to take the opportunity to review […]

(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 […]

The Washington Post just published this article that says that adoption of compact flourescent light bulbs–the small bulbs with a spiral flourescent tube that use a fraction of the power of the Edison classic incandescent bulb–is going slower that it should. Not because they don’t work, not because these bulbs don’t save money or put […]

The Internet loves April Fool’s day. For many sites, the April Fool’s story is an annual tradition–Google chipped in this year with Gmail Paper and TiSP (Beta) Free in-home Wireless Broadband. Geek tech retailer ThinkGeek had a page of April Fool’s gags, including one that was so popular, they’re going to actually make and sell […]

Most websites that get any kind of regular traffic are pretty well designed. The ongoing competition for visits and hits and click-throughs promotes a healthy interest on the part of the website owners to clean up the layout, put the important stuff where it’s easy to see and find, and generally try not to annoy […]