“A character named “Little Gray” on the Wrathbringer server has completed all 986 of the game’s ‘cheevos, killing 390,895 creatures and finishing 5,906 quests along the way.” [Joystiq]
I was under the impression that it couldn’t be beat and this isn’t work of The Onion. It really makes you wonder: How many hours did he invest into [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Geekery'
Taiwanese man beats World of Warcraft
December 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Geekery, Linked List
Tags:game·mmorpg·mom·rpg·taiwanese·world of warcraft
OMG Twitter is Broken, People Are Dying!
August 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Geekery, Internet, Technology, Uh oh!
Only few understand this concept: When Twitter is down, you can’t tweet about it.
So yeah, Twitter is down and we’re all going to die.
Update: And we’re Back!
Tags:server error·twitter
Bikini Models Make Music Through Their Body
August 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Creative Ideas, Entertainment, Geekery
This is very cool.
Calvin Harris, of Sony Music UK, has used conductive paint on carefully choreographed circuit-closing bikini models recreating his song, “Ready For The Weekend.”
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Tags:arduino·creative·humanthesizer·music
Speed Up Your iPhone: 8 Tips & Tricks
August 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Creative Ideas, Geekery, iPhone
The iPhone 3GS is fast, much faster then it’s predecessor. Whether your iPhone is taking the extra second to recognize a button click or has long loading times, here are a few tips and tricks to help speed up your iPhone:
Leave free space. Leaving around 750MB of free space allows the iPhone to create more [...]
Tags:iphone·performance·speed·tips·tricks
Recharge your iPhone with an Altoid Tin
August 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Creative Ideas, Geekery, iPhone
Ladyada.net:
This project details a small & simple, but very powerful USB charger for your mp3 player, camera, cell phone, and just about any other gadget you can plug into a USB port to charge! (See below for compatibility tests) The charger circuitry and 2 AA batteries fit into an Altoids gum tin, and will run [...]
Tags:batteries·charger·iphone·ipod·mintyboost·power
HTML5 Canvas Experiment
August 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Creative Ideas, Geekery, Linked List
9elements:
Time for us to play with this technology. We’ve created a litttle experiment which loads 100 tweets related to HTML5 and displays them using a javascript-based particle engine. Each particle represents a tweet – click on one of them and it’ll appear on the screen.
Awesome experiment using the HTML5 canvas. It also uses the Modernizr [...]
Tags:canvas·framework·html5·javascript·modernizr
Office 2010: The Movie
July 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Creative Ideas, Entertainment, Geekery
[via Laughing Squid]
Tags:laughing squid·office 2010·parody
John Hodgeman Roasts President Obama
June 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Creative Ideas, Entertainment, Geekery, Internet
This is taken at the 2009 Radio & TV Correspondents’ Dinner:
Tags:2009·correspondent·geek·hodgeman·nerd·obama·spock
Vin Diesel Plays WoW. Probably.
March 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Geekery, Linked List
For those of you who don’t know – WoW is an abbreviation for World of Warcraft.
It shouldn’t be a huge surprise that Diesel actually plays that game, considering that he’s known to be a hardcore gamer and even wrote the foreword to the D&D 30th Anniversary retrospective coffee table book. In fact, he leads the [...]
Tags:vin diesel·warcraft·world of warcraft·wow
The Agreeable Cat
February 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Creative Ideas, Geekery, Internet, Linked List
An interesting take on EULA’s:
How often have you been presented with unplesant click-through license agreements [...] It is disturbingly common for people to click right on through such barriers without even looking at the agreement. I totally understand this attitude. [...] Of course, I have created a wonderful solution to this problem. My cat, Simba, [...]







