December 16th, 2008 | Tags:
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Mr. Parrot built this Jag E-Type from the ground up using original Jag replacement parts. The car qualifies as E-Type number 72,530, even though it was built by a single man in his garage. Absolutely stunningly fantastic! You can read the entire story here. [Source: Octane, Photo: John Colley]
December 12th, 2008 | Tags:
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Closely alongside highwater pants, pocket protectors, short-sleeve white button-up shirts, and white tape wrapped around the bridge of black thick-rimmed glasses, the calculator watch is one of the Geek badges. Yet, for reasons clouded in the hazy Nerd past, the calculator watch has never attained the heights of ridicule its brethren did. Casio, the creators of [...]
December 12th, 2008 | Tags:
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This particular one was found by my daughter, since I don’t spend hours a day combing YouTube for cats (she’s reading the Warriors series right now). This is, however, a fantastic reuse for a retro iMac. I can only wonder how even cooler it would be if there were an iFish next to it. Maybe its [...]
December 9th, 2008 | Tags:
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Back in the days when even I was an early computer user, Apple was hammering out its early deals with the likes of Stan Veit. Mr. Veit was the first Editor-in-Chief of Computer Shopper magazine, but before that he was a critical component in the development of the computer retail establishment. As such, Stan got to [...]
July 21st, 2008 | Tags:
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Ok. This is just plain sick/kewl/nerd to the extreme. This is a screenshot of Windows 3.1 running in DOSBox on a Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. No, this is not me. I’m honestly not this cool, though I may try to do it some day. There were a couple of interesting bits in the comments on PicasaWeb, [...]
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