Nerd University - Music: Geek Metal 103: Metal, Shmetal.

May 9th, 2008 by spazworrier | Posted in Music, Random Geekery | 5 Comments »

Oooh, been a while since we’ve all attended class, hasn’t it students?

While I was scrolling through the dark, dank catacombs of my music folder each folder that contained metal seemed to look at me with disgust; “Why haven’t you written another entry? WHY?” their glares seemed to say to me. So to appease the metal gods and keep my music files from performing some odd coup de grâce where they start deleting each other I’ve decided to write an update for you guys. As you’d imagine, under such tense circumstances, this entry will be quite slap-dash, off the cuff and on the fly. The only intended plan for this post is to simply scroll through my music folder and pick out some bands which cause my nerdy fibers to tingle. Read the rest of this entry »

RISE! BALAM FHTAGN!

May 2nd, 2008 by spazworrier | Posted in Random Geekery | 1 Comment »

It’s that time of year. May 2nd! NPZR’s very own Balam’s birthday.

In such tradition I have celebrated it by creating a crappy doodle.

Happy Birthday you old git.

In more important news, today’s Iron Man’s international release date. So go get your metal freak on, y’all.

Beware the Believers

May 1st, 2008 by balam | Posted in Science | 3 Comments »

I know I haven’t been around much… work has been *crazy* and my extra time has been hogged by compulsively following political news… but I wanted you to see this.

Thy next foe is… THE WORLD!

April 28th, 2008 by spazworrier | Posted in Random Geekery | No Comments »

Nothing to declare from me today, just thought I’d show you guys a pic I stumbled upon, to keep the ball rolling (…what?). It got my nerd-juices flowing. Enjoy!

Geekout - 04/23/08 - Spaz’d

April 23rd, 2008 by spazworrier | Posted in Random Geekery | No Comments »

No sign of Balam today, so I thought I’d cover today’s Geekout.

• Ars Technica - Wikipedia coming soon to a (German) bookstore near you!
• Instructables - How to make: Portal/ Rick-Roll Cake… The cake really IS a lie! ;_;
• Instructables - How to make: Pirate Ship Cake (apologies for the double-shot, but this cake was too awesome NOT to link)
• Autopsy Babies - Think living dead dolls, but WORSE (WARNING: Gore! Do not look if you have a weak stomach, the gore-fiend in me had to link this due to the incredible craftsmanship).
• JoBlo - More Virals for The Dark Knight
• Wired - History’s Five Best Interfaces
• Kotaku - XBOX360 ‘Wii Remote’ Rumors.
• College Humor - Tesla Coil + Electric Guitar = Auto-Cool
• SearchMe - A really neat visual search engine. Type in what you want to search, it will produce the categories in which your search would fall into for more efficient ways of surfing the net. It’s in the beta stages so forgive it for having some kinks.

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Geek Savants Episode 59: Popculture Villiany!

April 21st, 2008 by thegeeksavants | Posted in Random Geekery | No Comments »

Geek Savants:

This week Grant, Dave and Super Ugly take a journey through the murky underbelly of television, film and comics to compile a list of villians sure to send chills down your spine! Along the way the guys squabble over who wrote Red Red Wine, the ‘villianous’ Ben Linus and Nazis being popculture’s most endearing villians. Oh, and we announce the commentary contest winner a week early ’cause we’re weird!

Outro by our man Neil Diamond.

Click here to listen.

Geekout: 04/17/08 - 04/20-08

April 18th, 2008 by balam | Posted in Random Geekery | No Comments »

• Treehugger: Vertical farms in urban settings
• NY Post: Blueprints for Freedom Tower found in the trash. Oops.
• Ars Technica: Big ISPs don’t bother to show up at second FCC net neutrality hearing.
• Kotaku: Kojima disappointed with MGS4
• Gizmodo: Microsoft testing software-as-a-service version of Microsoft Office, etc.
• Gizmodo: Beefiest iPod case ever.
• Superherohype: The Black Panther to get a prime-time cartoon on BET.
• Dinosaurs and the Bible: To Hell With Expelled.

Happy Friday

April 18th, 2008 by balam | Posted in Random Geekery | No Comments »

Geekout - 04/16/08 - Spaz’d

April 16th, 2008 by spazworrier | Posted in Comic Books, Random Geekery | No Comments »

Unfortunately Balam’s brain has imploded out of commission due to Hollywood’s remake f*ck-uppery. So I’ll be covering today’s Geekout.

• Geocities (eiw) - Army of Darkness Choose Your Own Adventure (I cannot stress enough how fun this is)
• CNN - Love-struck Hacker Proposes Via Bejeweled
• JoBlo - GI Joe’s Scarlett… rawwwrr
• Sillof - Oh Sillof, you sly dog. Steampunk Star Wars. OH EM GEE! (also check out the currently unfinished Star Wars 1942 set)
• Instructables - How to make: ‘Fresh beats’ using 5 Nintendo Gameboys
• Chronicle - Computer Scientists to Congress: Don’t Tell Colleges to Install Filters on Networks
• Wired - Analysts Doubtful As Google Quarterly Earnings Approach
• PC Advisor - Cisco to kill Linksys sooner than expected!
• Space Daily - Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole Awoke From Slumber 300 Years Ago. Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Sagittarius A* Milky-Way wgah’nagl fhtagn!!!

Et Tu, Hollywood?

April 16th, 2008 by balam | Posted in Sci-Fi | 1 Comment »

Hollywood, I love you. Sometimes you really come through for me. But today, you have a lot to answer for. For example, this:

The second is the long-coming dreaded remake of Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai.” I know what you’re thinking, “But ‘The Magnificent Seven’ was a remake of ‘Seven Samurai’ and that wasn’t terrible.” True enough. In fact there are even a few things in John Sturges’s western that I like better (James Coburn is in it, for example). But here’s what TWC has in mind: “Seven Samurai” will start shooting in the fourth quarter for release in 2009. The cast will feature American, European and Asian stars, and a director is in advanced talks with TWC.

Guys, NO! What are you doing? Do me a favor from now on, and remake movies that had promising stories or concepts, but which failed to deliver excellent final products, okay? And by this, I absolutely do NOT mean that you should do the following:

Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks Entertainment has acquired the screen rights to Japanese manga “Ghost in the Shell,” and they have plans to adapt the cyber-punk thriller as a 3-D live action feature. The film will follow the story of Motoko Kusanagi, a member of the covert operations section of the Japanese National Public Safety Commission, which specializes in technology-related crime.

GAH! Somebody bring me a drink.