http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out An unabashed nerd's guide to science, technology and cyberculture. If you you use an RSS reader, here is the feed for Geeking Out: XML. en-us ryeguy123@yahoo.com 2008-05-16T04:00:00-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 An unabashed nerd's guide to science, technology and cyberculture. If you you use an RSS reader, here is the feed for Geeking Out: XML. Here’s a really neat way to visualize our world in Real Time. twittervision takes the text-messages posted on twitter, and shows them on a google map as they are being posted. Watching this application with the “3D View” turned on,... http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2008/05/16/a_twittering_flickring_world.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out Here’s a really neat way to visualize our world in Real Time. twittervision takes the text-messages posted on twitter, and shows them on a google map as they are being posted. Watching this application with the “3D View” turned on,... 3875203@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2008-05-16T04:00:00-05:00 http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2008/05/15/pmog_the_passively_multiplayer.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out My Habits Make me a Pathmaker in PMOG Education is an adventure. We quest for knowledge throughout our lives, whether its the daily news, OTJ, or sitcoms. Every fact collected in our minds a tool for accessing new information... 3874603@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2008-05-15T04:00:00-05:00 http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2008/05/14/stephen_pinkers_the_stuff_of_t.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out “Words are wise men’s counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.” - Hobbes The Stuff of Thought I once had a conversation with a girl that went like this: “Ryan, you’re a bama.”... 3843403@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2008-05-14T04:00:00-05:00 http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2008/05/13/the_top_10_human_genes.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out As the purposes for various genes are identified on a weekly basis in the news, this list will be obsolete in a few months, but I wanted to post this. There aren’t enough plain-English reviews of human genes out there.... 3814603@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2008-05-13T04:00:00-05:00 http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2008/05/12/earn_a_nobel_prize_playing_vid.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out No joke. This free software, FoldIt, turns protein folding into a competitive sport. More on the art of protein folding here. Check out this demo: I mentioned it’s FREE (as in beer) and well-made, so go download it now.... 3790103@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2008-05-12T04:00:00-05:00 http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2008/05/10/attention_flickr_users.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out Hat Tip to Clint for pointing me to this. If you have a flickr account, you can view all of your photos sorted by popular/most interesting. Just click on this link and replace my username (“ideonexus”) with your own. Very... 3736003@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2008-05-10T04:00:00-05:00 http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2008/05/09/suicide_online.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out A recent study in the BMJ Suicide and the Internet, found that results for suicide-related search terms most frequently support or encourage suicide. I like to think of the Internet as one big ecosystem of ideas, or memes, where our... 3735603@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2008-05-09T04:00:00-05:00 http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2008/05/08/follow_up_on_vista.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out Hat Tip to Chriggy, who sent me this link of a microsoft manager explaining that aggravating the heck out of me with Windows Vista was by design. Incredible. Hat Tip to TGAW for sending the following PC vs Mac commercial:... 3735803@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2008-05-08T21:23:09-05:00 http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2008/05/08/the_joys_of_windows_vista.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out Microsoft has come up with a novel solution to the issue of security in Windows Vista. The basic principle is don’t let the user do anything. You see, if users are prevented from any productivity whatsoever, they can’t screw things... 3704703@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2008-05-08T04:00:00-05:00 http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2008/05/06/one_of_a_kind.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out If you are reading this, then you are a member of the human race. You are a member of Kingdom Animalia, meaning you are multicellular, but, unlike plants, your cells do not have a cell wall. You are a member... 3640903@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2008-05-06T04:00:00-05:00 http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2008/05/05/rl_iron_man.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out So I saw Iron Man this weekend. Totally rocked. I loved the whole superhero as inventor meme. Very exciting. Very DIY (Do It Yourself). But something hit me as I was driving home from the theater, we can build Iron... 3609003@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2008-05-05T04:00:00-05:00 http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2008/05/04/rollercoaster_physics_game.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out Flash Game teaches physics: Roller-Coaster Designer Roller-Coaster Designer... 3591603@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2008-05-04T05:00:00-05:00 http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2008/05/03/free_send_your_name_to_the_moo.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out Free opportunity to send your name to the moon. Certificate of Participation in the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Send Your Name to the Moon Project... 3591503@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2008-05-03T04:00:00-05:00 http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2008/05/02/free_comic_book_day_saturnday.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out Drop into Earth 383 tommorrow and pick up some free comics for yourself and the kids. Comics are a great way to get children into reading and the many games at Earth 383 promote imagination, intelligent thought, and creative problem... 3565303@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2008-05-02T09:11:33-05:00 http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2008/05/02/let_the_phytoremediation_begin.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out The Environmental Compliance Division at the Coast Guard base where I work is tasked with cleaning up decades worth of environmental problem areas on base and instituting sustainable operating procedures in the way the Coast Guard serves America. According to... 3554003@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2008-05-02T04:00:00-05:00