Take one of these! Print, hang outside your office or cubicle. Your goblin-slaying co-workers will thank you.

I was reviewing the data storage requirements for a project recently which had me talking in terabytes, and thinking long-term in petabytes. For those of you who don’t know, tera- and peta- are the binary prefixes for measuring units of digital information that come after giga- (as in “gigabyte”). The list of prefixes, which most [...]

Want to look like a badass hacker in front of your friends? Head over hackertyper.com and just start pushing buttons. As long as you avoid mashing your palms against the keyboard, your non-techie friends will look at you like this.

I’m not much of a sports guy, but this sack celebration by Eagles’ Linebacker Brian Rolle in last night’s game against the Giants has to be one of the best defensive celebrations I’ve ever seen. Equal parts hilarious and badass! (Apologies for the gif format, the NFL gestapo makes it hard to find real video [...]

Earlier today I installed what I thought was an update to the Xvid codec in order to watch a video. I should have been more careful with the source, as their installer proceeded to modify my Firefox installation, adding some junk toolbar called “Start Now” and changing my default search engine to Bing. (Sidebar: they [...]

My I was trotting along the tubes today with my trusty steed StumbleUpon, when I came across a new iPhone app called Word Lens. I could try to explain how they use the camera to translate signs and display the translation as video right on your phone in real time, but it wouldn’t do justice [...]

Fwd:Vault’s been listed on the startup review site Discovering Startups, which is cool in and of itself. However they also run a monthly contest for most popular startup, and the winner gets front page facetime on their site. All you have to do is click the badge below to visit our review, then click the [...]

In my off-hours, I tutor a very talented young man on computers, programming, and IT. Our work is usually short exercises, but every now and then we drum up something that might be of use. The download today is one of those unique pieces. It started by simply playing around with installers, which by design [...]

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