Julia Sherred's Geeky Pleasures

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I have been busy adding more things to my store. Some are Twitter related, some are of a personal nature and there is 1 that gets even better after you listen to the audio that won me 12 internets. Shirts (Short) #BlameJulesLupus Women’s Fitted T-Shirt (dark) This t-shirt is inspired by a Twitter hashtag given to me... 

click image for full view When I found this, my first thought was, “OMFG! Geeky Pleasures contributor Chris Knight (@cwknight) would freak over this!” That is of course after I finished squee’ing with delight. What is it? It is a bloody LEGO® Segway robot built using the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT 2.0 kit. Watch... 

Combat Arms added some great new weapons to the arsenal for its latest update, which is live and free-to-play at http://combatarms.nexon.net. The more than three million registered soldiers have three new weapons to choose from – the AA-12 Shotgun, M417 SB machine gun and M93 Hornet Mine. There are also some new features... 

The name of this post is the title of an email sent to me last week with a link to a video of a Rube Goldberg machine. “A rube what?”, you may be asking yourself. Very simply, a Rube Goldberg machine is a purposely over engineered machine designed to do a simple task. It is named after American inventor and cartoonist,... 

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Symphony of Science released a new video and song today – The Poetry of Reality (An Anthem for Science). Featured in this song are 12 different scientists, including Michael Shermer, Jacob Bronowski, Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Jill Tarter, Lawrence Krauss, Richard Feynman, Brian Greene, Stephen Hawking,... 

This is bloody amazing. It is a robotic Rubiks cube solver made out of LEGO! I kid you not. The RCX Speedcubing Robot can solve the cube in less than 12 seconds! Here is what the info on Youtube has to say about it: The Worlds Fastest Lego Mindstorms RCX Speedcubing Robot. Built entirely from lego elements with a lego web... 

Time for more Geeky apparel. This time I present to you the Darth Vader leather jacket by Adidas, or as they call it Star Wars Superstar Track Top Darth Vader. To be honest, I don’t think I like it. Maybe because it is too young and hipster and I feel kinda insulted looking at it for a reason I am having a hard time... 

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