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I remember being very interested by the kindle when it first launched. I'd seen the concept of the E ink back in the 90s and was quite excited by the potential, so finally seeing it being used was great.However, the kindle was only for the Americans. ...
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Being the Glorious 25th of May, these (presumably) good people have asked that avatars be dressed for Wear the Lilac Day, to raise awareness for Alzheimer's Disease research. The thread was started by Discworld fans following Terry Pratchett being diagn...
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Shirts available through RedBubble. I've been very impressed with the quality of the shirts I've seen from them.So have a look and help us cover hosting costs! ...
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...Alternate title: OMG what am I doing, why did I volunteer for this, and how did I just do that thing five minutes ago?? Logging into the site for the first time to post, I was torn between smiling with delight, and shutting down the browser and playin...
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I am not, I have always been the first to say, into rap or hiphop. Tastes in music are deeply personal things, and to me, the examples of these genres that I encountered just fell flat, other than occasional beats that I could apparently enjoy if no one w...
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I actually find it hard to get excited about buying baby things. When friends have kids, I offer to buy them practical things, like nappies and baby wipes. There is no lack, in the shops, of tiny little outfits that make me speak weird semi-language a...
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If you haven’t heard about The Gruen Transfer's fat pride kerfuffle, you might have been watching House or... actually doing something productive, but the brief on The Pitch this week was fat pride: making fat Australians feel better about themselves. O...
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Geeks are Sexy is a pro nerd blog and social news site (sound familiar) and they have a regular feature called Wednesday Geeky Pics which is a sort of nerdilicious less stoner xbox jock version of Photoshop Phriday. This week they feature a nerdilicious p...
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This is the best roleplaying humour I've seen in a long time, even if it is a little crass. Most gamers who didn't give up roleplaying in their teens will definitely recognise these players in someone they know; the ones who take it all a bit too seriousl...
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Well I don't know about my chances but I thought I may as well try out; anyone else keen? Asia/AU/EU Writers: -Must have tech journalism (not manuals for xerox machines) experience on blogs, newspapers or magazines and a body of originally reported wor...
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This is one we can all get behind, especially since there's some real A1 geek celebrities in on the act. More at http://geekadvancement.com/ ...
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Looks like google are releasing an awesome app for the android platform. Star Droid will look at the image shown through the camera view finder, triangulate with your GPS position, and then attach name tags to the planets and constellations you can see....
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I used to be an attrocious Trekkie; though always for Next Gen and not so much for classic Trek. The Next Gen movies were getting a bit tried and I'm glad they went on another route. Sometime ago there was talk of a Voyager movie which may have worked but...
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As any Mac user will tell you one of the best third party applications available for OSX is Growl which does pop up notifications on the status of other applications with Growl support. Notably I use it for floating notifications of instant messages, ...
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From http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/photographyprize/ The Google Photography Prize is a global competition for students to create themes for iGoogle. Run in collaboration with the Saatchi Gallery London, the Google Photography Prize is open to st...
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Optus corporate responsibility runs deep and wide even in leaner times; they're asking us to nominate our favoured not for profits as employees. If you have an appropriate charity you would like to see get some funding please let me know. I would particul...
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It’s time to get socially dextrous and spend an evening getting serious with Lego and networking through gaming at the upcoming Geek Girl Dinner in Sydney....
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IT Geek Girls may be interested in the ConnectingUp 09 conference in Sydney on May 11-12. Jody Mahoney, Vice President, Business Development at the Anita Borg Institute, will be the guest speaker at the Women in IT Brunch Sunday 10 May. To register - go t...
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Etsy's "Geekery" category sometimes feels... insufficiently geeky to me, but there are some seriously brilliant items to make up for it. To start with, we have "REJOICE - U CAN HAZ CHEESBURGR", a felt cat toy in cheesburgr form, stuffed with catnip, of co...
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Greater-than Sudoku, despite involving mathematical symbols and adding an extra element to the sudoku experience, isn't actually more difficult than normal sudoku. It's more of a sidewise step. You have new strategies to use, but you usually start wit...
