Category: Geek
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Buying Drinks With Bitcoin
I’m in NYC for a week, returning home tomorrow, and I just came back from the EVR club. I’m a bit too old for a dance club on a Friday night, and the $100 minimum bar tap price was a little ridiculous, but I’m really glad I went there and helped the Bitcoin economy a…
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How to Create a Mind
So excited, just received a package with the new book by Ray Kurzweil, “How to Create a Mind” (and with it, an inscribed bookplate!)
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I’m a backer of Oculus Rift: Step Into the Game!
Congratulations! You’re a backer of Oculus Rift: Step Into the Game by Oculus Pledge Summary Amount pledged $330.00 Reward EARLY RIFT DEVELOPER KIT + DOOM 3 BFG: Try the Rift for yourself now! You’ll receive a developer kit, perfect for the established or indie game developer interested in working with the Rift immediately. This…
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Don’t Panic
It’s Towel Day! Do you know where your towel is? I always carry a towel. A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded…
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List of serial killers, help needed
This list is incomplete. You can help by expanding this article. ಠ_ಠ Revision as of 09:26, 14 May 2012 included “Please do not expand the list with original research or adding yourself.“
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i lost my lighter
“we are tired of losing our lighter so we decided to act. we want to find our lovely lost lighter and bring it back home. we need your help.”
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Voyager
King Abdullah of Jordan, an acknowledged fan of Star Trek, appeared as an uncredited extra in the 1996 Star Trek: Voyager episode “Investigations“. Abdullah’s cameo was arranged as a surprise for him by his US advisor. (Memory Alpha) Update, May 27, 2013: Work on $1.5bn Star Trek theme park in Jordan finally starts.