Posts Tagged ‘Geeks’

Futurama Alien Sign Replica

Futurama Alien Sign Replica

I actually made one of these into a fridge magnet for my desk, it looks quite good!

For anyone who doesn’t recognise it, it’s a modified version of the alien sign from the Futurama episode “My Three Suns”, as seen here:

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Gmail FINALLY removes ‘on behalf of’ from headers!

Via the Official Gmail Blog

Until now, whenever you send an email from a custom address in Gmail, it would automatically add “From:” in the headers. This reveals your Gmail address to people who you may not wish to see it.

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Will you crazy people leave me alone?

So as you all know I built www.lcarsdeveloper.com back in 2002, when I used to be a bit of a Star Trek fan (something I lost interest in very quickly).

At the time I was teaching myself Flash, and I wanted to take on a big project to test my Flash skills and improve on them, so I started messing around with the computer interface from Star Trek, which is known as “LCARS”.

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Drunk Programming

Programming is more fun when you’re drunk. I’m actually enjoying it again for the first time in months! And all it took was 2 glasses of bourbon and 2 glasses of Irish Whiskey! :)

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How to ‘Google’ Your Life!

This is something I’ve been thinking about for quite a while, how you can use Google and their associated products to get more out of your life online!

http://www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/forum/computers-video-games-technology/7452-how-google-your-life.html

Friendface.co.uk Text Deciphered!

If anyone was watching The IT Crowd last week, you would remember the whole plot revolved around a Facebook style website called “Friendface”.

Well there is a real official website at www.friendface.co.uk!

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IT Crowd Office Supplies

Just in case anyone’s wondering where the IT Crowd items on Zazzle are from, here are the originals from Series 3 episode 3:

Original:

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Zazzle:

Original:

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Original:

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Zazzle:

Buy them from here: http://www.zazzle.com/reynholm/

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Reynholm Industries Update!

Reynholm (New)I’ve just done a major update of www.reynholm.co.uk

There’s now a new “secret” page and an Office Supplies store (near-exact replicas of props on the TV show, all artwork recreated by hand).

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A Wall-climbing R/C Car?

ThinkGeek has one now!

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For sale here: http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/rc/aeec/

Product Features

  • R/C car can race on walls using internal vacuum system
  • Full control including forward/backward and right or left turns
  • Charges from remote: 15 minute charge time, 8 minute drive time

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My new GMail Theme!

It matches my desktop wallpaper and doesn’t hurt the eyes so much at night:

Gmail Theme

It’s called "Planets"

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