Category Archives: Around the Web

by | July 20, 2013 · 9:12 am

Around the Web July 20, 2013

Hollywood is taking a pretty considerable beating in the later half high. Four major budget movies have flopped in recent weeks, derailing what was on track to be a record breaking summer.

Kind of like this, only the sign isn't taking the beating this time.

Kind of like this, only the sign isn’t taking the beating this time.

I’ll admit to being part of this problem, but then again a few of those movies just didn’t look any good. I also have an awesome couch and it’s tough to get off it.

The founder of Amazon has announced that he has recovered one of the rocket engines from Apollo 11. The engine was positively identified by a part serial number. This announcement also comes with pretty good timing as tomorrow is the 44th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing (yes it really happened).

For once government bureaucracy pays off.

For once government bureaucracy pays off.

I can’t wait for this stuff to go on the museum tour. I just hope it comes near me, though there are few places more deserving than Hampton, VA (where the original astronauts trained, look it up).

And to wrap up this week, we have cute baby pandas. They even have a PandaCam.

pandaLook, the internet is 49% porn, 49% cute animals (mostly cats, lets be honest) and 2% everything else. Therefore I Geek is gonna put up cute animals every now and again.

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by | July 12, 2013 · 8:12 pm

Around the Web July 12, 2013

It’s time for another awesome Friday’s Around the Web wrap up.

Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin is not impressed with the Iron Throne depicted on the HBO series. While I still think it looks pretty badass, George disagrees and he is, of course, the expert.

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Please don’t kill another Stark because of me! Please!!!!

An announcement from the co-founder of Pirate Bay. Peter Sunde is now working on an encrypted messaging app that will supposedly make messages unreadable to the Big Brother folks over at the NSA. At least in concept this is pretty cool. The end-to-end technology is fascinating.

I will admit to being a bit skeptical though. This is all coming from one of the founders of Pirate Bay, a site which is used to trample on copyright law all the time. I hate to say it but while it may be more disturbing when the government does it, it doesn’t matter if it’s a private person or a government agency, breaking the law is still a problem.

Lastly, a rather interesting article from Wired.com talking about people shopping from that place we all go to from time to time.

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Not surprisingly, more and more people are shopping from their toilets and those online retailers who are working to improve their tablet/phone apps are the ones best able to take advantage of those shoppers in the “thinker” position. This is the kind of thing that worries me a little (ok, a lot!) about the future of the human race.

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by | July 5, 2013 · 3:44 pm

Around the Web July 5, 2013

Independence Day is always a fantastic excuse for a cookout. Thanks to Wired, we have a pair of competing articles trying to win that age old argument of gas vs. charcoal. This time they’re using science. I love it when food and science mix.

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This is why my grill has both gas and charcoal. I win!

A Dallas auction house will soon be auctioning off the original cover from Batman: Dark Knight Returns #2. This is one of the most ground-breaking comics in history and one of the two that started the Modern Age of comics. And it just looks cool.

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Any body have a few hundred thousand dollars I can borrow?

I guess even Dark Lords of the Sith need to stay in shape someone how.

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Seriously though, they are willing to call nearly anything a world record at this point.

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by | June 28, 2013 · 6:31 pm

Around the Web June 28, 2013

This story is pretty interesting, both because of how much influence technology has on our lives including our political process and because of how cyclical history can be. Just sit back and watch the pendulum swing. Hopefully we can take a few of these lessons and protect ourselves again.

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Somehow the black windows make this place look just a bit more sinister.

Some of these pictures are far more clever than anything I could come up with.

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Still not sure I’d want to do any of these things. 30 years from now I don’t know if I’d want to look back on this.

What would the internet be without Bear Grylls? Will he drink his own urine?  Guess you’ll just have to watch and find out. As a side note, my friends and I actually did this while trying to park in Manhattan.

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