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Geekcentricity Radio: Podcast launch

Geekcentricity Radio: Podcast launch

Hey guys and gals and gravy growing gremlins! So for sometime now we’ve been mulling over a podcast for GC and it’s finally becoming a reality. We’re super excited.   So excited that a staff challenge was issued for an acrobatic competition. Darren won with a triple gainer back flip off a piano onto a [...]

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Geek Gadget Preview: Revolve

Geek Gadget Preview: Revolve

So what is Revolve you ask? “The Revolve camera dolly is a platform for capturing smooth and dynamic video footage. The system can be used to create a wide variety of tracking shots and rotational dolly shots as well as dynamic time lapse and stop motion photography. It is compatible with virtually any camera, and [...]

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Is Hulu Turning to the Dark Side?

Is Hulu Turning to the Dark Side?

Source: News When Hulu was released to the world it was a great idea that slowly turned into another way for the networks to make money from us watching shows that for the most part are free to watch because most are broadcast free over the air. I remember as a kid having an antenna on my [...]

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Gamer Taxonomy 310 – Homo Ludus Oculus

Gamer Taxonomy 310 – Homo Ludus Oculus

Welcome to class students. I’m your professor, Dr. Fashion Foodfart. For those of you who haven’t figured out yet this is SCI 310 Gamer Taxonomy not L/S 104 The Internetz. That class is meeting next door in the computer lab. So by all means please excuse yourself if you somehow managed to find yourself in [...]

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A new way to look at nerds

A Different Sort of Game

  My friends and I were having dinner the other night when the topic of sports fans came up.  The argument made was that generally people that are fans of sports are not the most intelligent.  While a good point was made on the unintelligence of mob-mentality taking over, all fans are not one in [...]

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Japan — A Geek’s Paradise!

Japan — A Geek’s Paradise!

  Anime, manga, robots, electronics, billboards, temples, shrines, glitz, glamour, lights, action, bushido, samurai, ninja, zen!  All these words describe a particular land, a particular people, a particular culture.  It’s a place which many like-minded individuals often dream of visiting.  To many, it is a paradise of sorts.  It harbors all that we, as geeks, [...]

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All goodies from Mashable...spelled without an E in the middle, in case you were wondering.

Mashable Movie Industry Inforgraphic

Those brilliant chaps over at Mashable make nice things and have a pretty good eye for design. They released this Infographic about the how the movie industry has consistently tried to control media outlets over time and cried “end of the world” over and over in the last century or so. It was partially a response [...]

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A GM’s Love Affair with D&D and His Friends

A GM’s Love Affair with D&D and His Friends

I stated playing D&D with the original blue books (can’t even say boxed set these days anymore, else some kid will think we’re talking Essentials). My friend Rodney introduced me to the wonderful world of sword and sorcery. Halflings were a class, fighters simply smashed stuff, and everyone knew mages sucked until level 3 or [...]

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SOPA and PIPA and other initials of doom, DOOM!

Okay we typically try and keep things pretty light and fun here at GC. However, in case you have been living under a rock for the past few days, or haven’t gone to Wikipedia to find out how to change your spark plugs, then you may be wondering just what the heck is up with [...]

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I have proof!

I have a confession to make.

I have something to tell everyone.  I guess you could call it a confession, but either way, it’s something.  I really am quite ashamed, given my “nerd status” or whatever you kids call it these days, as well as the fact that I’m an associate at a certain popular retail store that specializes in electronic [...]

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