One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
A genuinely amusing alternative history of programming languages.
Tags: geek
Retreats 4 Geeks presents Progressive Enhancement — 25–30 March 2012
Roll up, roll up! Get five nights food and lodging at a fantastic luxury horse ranch in the Rockies in March.
Oh, and myself and Aaron will be running workshops on progressive enhancement for you during that time too.
Fillerama: A Filler Text Generator
One more alternative to lorem ipsum.
Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die | Magazine
Wired Magazine break with tradition by publishing a halfway interesting article (though you’ll still need Readability or Instapaper to make the experience of reading it bearable).
the nerds are on the march
Geek Calendar is a celebration of the nerdishness of contemporary British life. It's also a project to raise money for libel reform.
http://www.last.fm/robots.txt
Best. Robots.txt file. Ever.
ThinkGeek :: Blurgh! The ThinkGeek Blog - Officially our best-ever cease and desist
Sending a cease and desist letter to an obvious parody just makes the parody even funnier.
ThinkGeek :: Stuff for Smart Masses
Scroll to the bottom to see a nice robots-into-zomies effect.
Throwboy
I need to get some RSS pillows.
Babbage and Lovelace Fight Crime T-shirt from Zazzle.com
I'm not sure I can resist ordering one of these T-shirts featuring crime-fighting duo Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace.
Brighton Girl Geeks
Geek girls of Brighton: don't miss Natalie's CSS talk in The Eagle on March 4th. Nat is the best front-end developer I know.
Hack Day – Group at Last.fm
The first ever Last.fm hack day is taking place in London on December 14th. I'll be there.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Online time 'is good for teens'
Mimi Ito talks to the BBC about the findings of a report into teens geeking out online.
Fray Issue 2: Geek - Windhammer by Rob Weychert
Rob's story of Air Guitar Championhood is in issue no. 2 of Fray magazine: Geek.
http://google.com/robots.txt
User-agent: zombies Disallow: /brains
Delighting with Data » tomtaylor.co.uk
Notes and slides from Tom Taylor's talk at Oxford Geek Night 7. It's a great collection of things that talk (or at least Twitter): Tower Bridge, asteroids, plants...
NOSCRIPT for nerds. Stuff that disappears. -
Okay, you have to be a real JavaScript/HTML geek to find this funny but check this out: document.write('<noscript>...'); Madness!
Understanding art for geeks - a photoset on Flickr
Normally LOL is a throwaway little phatic interjection but I really did laugh out loud at some of the pictures in this photoset.
ThinkGeek :: Wi-Fi Detector Shirt
Dear Santa Claus, I have been a relatively good boy this year. Please may I have a t-shirt that actually detects and displays WiFi signal strength? No, I'm not kidding. Give my love to the elves, Jeremy.
John Logie Baird: the home of the inventor of the medium has been reduced to rubble - Independent Online Edition > Media
With a disgusting disregard for history, the Bexhill home of John Logie Baird has been demolished. Here's a potted biography of the proto-geek who steampunked his way into our living rooms.
Brighton geek venues
Natalie put together this handy map of geeky hangouts in Brighton.
Oxford Geek Night 3 | 25th July 2007
Videos ands slides from the recent Oxford Geek Night.
Brighton Girl Geek: Competition - girl geek logo and slogan
Want tickets to dConstruct? If you're a girl geek, here's your chance.
The End of the Internet
I did it! I did it! I knew all that surfing would finally pay off.
Sussex Digital - Focusing on the Sussex digital community
A list of just some of the cool geek stuff going on in Brighton right now. This town really does rock.
LOLCODE
I'm sure everyone else has already discovered this but I really was L'ing O L when I read the "Hai world" code.
A Hack for Europe! (plasticbag.org)
Registration for Hack Day Europe (June 16th-17th) is open. Sign up now! This is going to be a lot of fun.
ThinkGeek :: The ThinkGeek 8-bit Tie
If I were to wear a tie, this would be the tie I would wear.
The Morning News - South by South-BEST! by Todd Levin
Todd Levin of tremble.com pens a truly hilarious write-up of South by Southwest Interactive 2007.
Morethanseven » UK Meetup Finder
Gareth has mashed up Google Maps with meatspace geek gatherings in the UK.
Gender diversity at web conferences (kottke.org)
Jason Kottke on the still-ludicrous imbalance at most tech conferences. This issue isn't going to go away. Conference organisers need to stop being part of the problem and become part of the solution.
The B-List: A chronicle of the Ages of the Web
Supremely geeky but funny look at the history of the Web via Tolkien.
» Google Earth …
Reality imitating Google Maps in Berlin.
Transcript: Where the rubber meets the road — Web Accessibility and Pragmatism / Geek in the Park 2006 / Bruce Lawson and Patrick H. Lauke / splintered - freelance creativity and design / the portfolio and experimental playground of patrick h. lauke aka
This transcript of Pat'n'Bruce's talk at the Geek in the Park makes for a great, thought-provoking read.
The Fox Tales » Blog Archive » All “signs” point to Firefox
This is just about one of the geekiest things I've ever seen. A crop circle of the Firefox logo. This is not Photoshopped.
Royal Society | About the Society | Library and Archives | Using the Library | Group tours & talks
I think this could be a fun side-event to organise around @media: a guided tour of the Royal Society. What self-respecting geek wouldn't like that?
LEGO Technic Difference Engine
Babbage + Lego
Dave Shea London Geek Dinner - 23rd January 2006
A transcript of the Q&A session with Dave.
The Sysadmin Song
Geeky but good.
Scaryideas
This series of cartoon panels is funny because it's true.
Separated at birth: Dustin Diaz and Simon Collison
The similarity is eerie.
The case of the 500-mile email
A great bit of geek detective work.
Ipod My Baby
Cute baby wear for geek parents.
Nerds make better lovers
I could have told you that.