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August 17, 2010 | General Geek Culture, Language, Literature & Linguistics, Science & Technology

Happy Birthday Hugo Gernsback

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Yesterday, 16 August, marked the 122nd anniversary of the birth of Hugo Gernsback, master of science fiction and father of…

April 10, 2009 | General Geek Culture, Music

Did Frank Zappa Invent The Internet Music Business in 1983?

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So did the great man foresee a better way to allow music lovers to indulge their passion? In Frank’s own…

April 9, 2009 | General Geek Culture

Big Nose George Parrot

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Now here’s an outlaw whose end simply begs to be made into a Takashi Miike movie: Big Nose George Parrot….

March 16, 2009 | General Geek Culture

In The Blood: Why do vampires still thrill?

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Stoker did not invent vampires. If we define them, broadly, as the undead—spirits who rise, embodied, from their graves to…

November 25, 2008 | General Geek Culture

K- K- K- Kracker Kristmas

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Goodness, who else saw a Christmas tree when they first spotted these brightly… erm… coloured gentlemen? From the excellent Life…

October 30, 2008 | General Geek Culture

Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart, BBC Version

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October 9, 2008 | General Geek Culture

Where You Don’t Live

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In our minds, this is what every geek’s house looks like: In reality, probably slightly less so. This is Jay…

July 14, 2008 | General Geek Culture

Spyglasses, Mr Bond?

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Trust the Japanese, indisputable masters of the perverse and sexually downright weird, to perfect a pair of sunglasses with a…

July 2, 2008 | General Geek Culture, Politics

Amazon Duh

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If Amazon are supposedly smart enough to know what I like, why are they too stupid to figure out they…

June 22, 2008 | General Geek Culture

RIP George Carlin

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The great and irreplaceable George Carlin died yesterday. His comedy was smart and often cut to the bone. Like all…

June 18, 2008 | General Geek Culture

Green Fairy Just A Guy In Tights

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According to German researchers, absinthe neither is nor ever was a hallucinogen. The hallucinations experienced by bohemian hipsters in 19th-century…

April 22, 2008 | General Geek Culture

No Words Needed

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April 8, 2008 | General Geek Culture

War of the Worlds Graphic Novel

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Not very new, but definitely worth revisiting: Dark Horse present H. G. Wells’s War of the Worlds.

April 7, 2008 | General Geek Culture

Professor Who?

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As any self-respecting geek within the respectable sphere of the BBC1 broadcasting radius knows (and most self-respecting geeks within the…

April 2, 2008 | General Geek Culture

Geeks With Asperger’s Are The New Black

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Dr. Temple Grandin on the relationship between Asperger’s Syndrome and IT, quoted in an excellent article entitled Asperger’s and IT:...