Julia Sherred's Geeky Pleasures

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Well those wonderful songsmiths have done it yet again and submitted another round of really good music. It always impresses me how these people are able to write and produce a song in under a week. For the third round, the challenge was to write a song about a recipe. And yet again, it was very difficult for me to pick out... 

Don’t Die Trying Gamers looking to participate in online water balloon action longer can now enjoy continuous play in PopTag!’s “Revival Mode.”  Players face off against each other, similar to regular PvP Mode in frenzied water balloon battles.  Rather than being eliminated, a player’s death is logged as points for... 

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Fujitsu is has a few Spring offer deals valid March 8 – 22, 2010, including $100 off the purchase of selected notebooks. Buy a Fujitsu notebook and get $100 Off* $100 Off – Use Coupon Code: SPRINGOFFER FREE Shipping Valid from 3/8 to 3/22/2010 * Select Notebooks exclude Express buys, MH380, M2011, P3010 and UH900 $100... 

As I mentioned before, Skewed and Reviewed has a magazine and the second issue is now available. If you are attending ECCC, I highly recommend you check out Gareth Von Kallenbach’s panel. His panel will be opening up ECCC and there are no other events at this time. There, you can purchase the second issue for $3 USD or... 

And now I will leave you for the weekend with this little bit of skeptical humour brought to you by Tree Lobsters. I featured them once before on my site when I awarded one of their comics Geek Of The Week January 15, 2010. And now I present: #131 Safety Measures And the Secret Message for this one: Bumperbacking: The unsafe... 

If you do not follow William Shatner on Twitter (@WilliamShatner), you may have missed the announcement he made yesterday of a new social networking site created by the Admiral himself, called MYOUTERSPACE. In his own words transcribed from his welcome video: Welcome to MYOUTERSPACE. A brand new community of sci-fi, horror... 

YAY! It is another geeky music thing! I do not think I have to say again that when geekery and music are combined, a happy Jules becomes a very happy Jules, indeed. Last week, I post a video of an awesome Rube Goldberg machine. Today I came across the following music video which includes a Rube Goldberg machine. Now not only... 

If you missed the exciting announcement about SETIcon, let me fill you in. SETIcon is a dream come true! It will be held at the Hyatt Recency in Santa Clara from August 13 – 15, 2010 and will be a geekasmic celebration of Astronomy, SETI, Star Trek and science fiction in general. Tickets are dirt cheap as well,$20 a day...