Girls can be Geeks, Panties Optional!

January 18, 2008 By - 4 Comments

Game Girl Panties

As I stumbled away this morning that magic button took me to something that surprised me. A girl geeks website, well actually a girl gamers site called Game Girl. I have nothing against the increase amount of Girl Geeks and hope more Girl-Hackers, Girl-Gamers and Girl-Technologist geeks are morphed. However this post is about the lack of girl geek apparel…

So the article in mind is Top 7 Geek Panties (for girls). This is what Technically Foreign is about, finding the details of a society that aren’t yet inside the mainstream making them foreign to the general public. I hope after reading this article we all fight for the equal rights of Geek Clothing for girls. Maybe a Geek Girl should make a Web Petition. But I believe they’ve got a good start from those top 7 and above is only a peak.

{{Photo from: http://www.gamegirl.com/article/55313/top-7-geek-panties-for-girls/ photo and all rights belong to them }}

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Random Googling: Bill Gates the devil

January 17, 2008 By - 1 Comment

Gates

After a long day and many crashing Windows machines I’ve decided to lean inward and grab good old curiosity and let her scream. I’ve done it, apparently Chavez got the wrong guy. According to popular weblore Bill Gates might be the devil, not President George W. Bush. However what makes people think that Gate’s is so Devilish? What makes so many people hate this geek? I for one can’t say I hate the guy, I may hate some of his products but lets face it when was the last time the guy coded an entire operating system himself? Never, only one man in the history of computers has done such a thing and that was Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

Anyway back to the random Google experiment here, I typed in ‘Bill Gates the Devil’ into google and came up with about 448,000 results. Not bad, but how many on the first page are relevant?

Top link: The Bill Gates is Satan conspiracy theory . The site isn’t hosted in the US, so this is apparently an international belief. The Theory is quiet interesting in stating that if you add Bill Gates birth name (William Gates III) in ASCII then you get 666. Interesting theory. I wonder what mine is?

2nd Link: Bill Gates is the Devil, Hitler implicated – Which is an interesting article from the register dating back to 2001. It takes a humorous look at a German article which states the unpopularity of Gates and has a picture of Hitler on the opposing page. Someone must of had fun putting that order in.

3rd and finally: Since I don’t want to take you away from updating your Windows with the latest security patch. This was not third on the list however, it is a well written article on a statement which Gates said. Devil’s Advocate: Should Microsoft be paying you to use Windows?This article from silicon.com really shows the Devil at work as he suggests Google should pay users back for using Google.  Now after reading the article and realizing that Bill Gates is the richest man in the world from the investment of one company – Microsoft – I wonder at which point he was willing to give consumers money for just using a product?

All the above may not prove that Bill Gates is the Devil, hell, it doesn’t make sense for the devil to be wearing geek clothing.  To make things fair ‘Steve Jobs The Devil’ gets  312,000 but some of those might reflect on the ‘Fake Steve Jobs’ as well.  In the end we love to symbolize anyone as good old Satan, hell, I’ve called some of my best friends the devil and sometimes a little worst. But until Bill Gates wears Prada I’d just say he’s just a geek who knew how to sweet talk and delegate.

/// PHOTO – William Henry Gates the Third Arrested for Speeding at the age of 19!  Not your average Geek!

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Virtual Worlds Belong in A Library?

January 16, 2008 By - Leave a Comment

Floppy Disk

Reading through the daily grind I came across a less then noted article on New Scientist blog about how the Library of Congress has a project that will be archiving and preserving early computer games, online novels and Virtual Worlds. This to me is an interesting task since I’ve worked with the delima of preserving digital media. Ten years ago a lot of things were on media like Zip drives that don’t exist anymore. At the same time books and news articles have been around for hundreds of years in the form of paper.

So, how would the future look back on our virtual worlds like Second Life and World of War Craft? Would it be possible for someone thirty or fifty years in the future to login and see what they looked like the same way I can read the New York Times online from 1958? As we build our computer systems and new technologies we forget the importance of writing about it, and keeping that writing available for generations to come. The only way the future will know how we lived fifty, a hundred or five hundred years is by what we did with our time. As the TV guys archive and preserve the latest episodes of Grey’s Anatomy and CSI we should keep in mind of preserving our virtual worlds and online addictions for the generations to come.

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Blue Screen of Fruit!

January 15, 2008 By - Leave a Comment

BSOFruit

Microsoft, most notably the number one reason for increase spending on System Administrators and Help Desk staff is entering your supper market. They will be providing software that will have a Smart Shopping Cart with ads that will ‘help’ a consumer to ‘buy’ more things. This technology will use up-links from home PC, RFID technology and coupons. While this is an interesting concept, it is a prototype and just the tip of the ice-berg of things to come. As we get more wireless and screens get smaller the computer will invade every square inch of our everyday mundane life.

“Blue Screen of Death in Isle 5,” I can here over the loudspeaker as a service technician is called out from behind the freezers.

About ten years ago there was a company giving scanners to people to do self check-out, they were attached to carts and as the customer put the item in the cart they would scan it. Today we have self-check out in many stores fixed at the exit. These first prototypes help our direction towards the future where, ads are displayed on carts and a customer can easily access information about the store, a product and maybe one day have Britney Spears tell them how much she loves Eggo’s and don’t fogert to buy her new Album so she can pay alimony.

However we are stuck in the year 2008 where these silly things of computerized shopping carts are the wave of the future, we’ll have to stick with our talking GPS’s and wireless digital cameras. Who knows, by the time Microsoft gets out of the Beta for the product we will have an Apple Driod doing our grocery shopping for us.

Microsoft Smart Shopping Carts – VIA: Information Week

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14 year-old hacks Tranist system?

January 14, 2008 By - Leave a Comment

It seems that a Polish boy hacked a Transit system in Lozd Poland. He used a modified remote control to take over the switch system on the trams. This unfortunately caused a train to derail and some injuries. With the increase of curiosity of technology there will always be these cases, but it is amazing that a 14-year old boy can hack a cities complicated transit system. Accomplishing such a thing with a modified TV remote control is quite a task. People do fear that there is an increase in hacking devices, however, it is in human nature to be curious and try to compete with everything around us. For minds that work with electronics and computer sciences that is what hacking is about, however, in a way without hacking we wouldn’t be making these products safer and better or understanding how they work.

I say bring it on. Let the kids hack, learn how to build remote controls that will control things beyond your wildest dreams. Nicola Tesla created the first remote control over a hundred years ago and everyone thought he was using his mind to control a boat. We need to get out of the dark ages and embrace the curiosity that people have; this is the type of innovation that new forms of technology are created.

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Pop the Bubble Virtually

November 15, 2007 By - Leave a Comment

bubble wrap poppingOkay so a while back I posted about the key chain bubble wrap simulator… But now I’ve found a fun way to get your daily frustration out during work for FREE.  Yes free as in beer. (that joke never gets old.)  Have fun at this Flash game that will ultimately simulate the bubble wrap popping we all enjoy.

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