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Steve Jackson Games Chez Geek

// May 13th, 2009 // Comments Off // Lifestream

From the Manufacturer
Your friends become your roommates as you each try to get enough Slack to overcome the stress of your job. You can get points for sleeping, watching TV, and nookie. Got money from home? Buy beer and CDs, and invite your friends over to Chez Geek.

Product Description
In this light, humorous, and fast paced card game players are roommates trying to reach their slack goal by inviting over cool friends, buying stuff, and performing activities (like getting ta (more…)

Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ (Hardcover)

// May 7th, 2009 // 5 Comments » // Lifestream

From Publishers Weekly
Novelist and screenwriter Dooling (White Man’s Grave) contemplates the Era of Singularity, the coming day when computers will be able to outthink humans, in this uneven take on the future of machine intelligence. Dooling is at his best when he profiles technology’s most captivating futurists: Ray Kurzweil, inventor of scanning and text-to-speech technologies, beguiles with his vision of human minds embedded in silicon chips; physicist and science fiction write (more…)

Geek Love: A Novel (Paperback)

// May 4th, 2009 // 10 Comments » // Lifestream

Amazon.com Review
A wild, often horrifying, novel about freaks, geeks and other aberrancies of the human condition who travel together (a whole family of them) as a circus. It’s a solipsistic funhouse world that makes “normal” people seem bland and pitiful. Arturo the Aqua-Boy, who has flippers and an enormous need to be loved. A museum of sacred monsters that didn’t make it. An endearing “little beetle” of a heroine. Sort of like Tod Browning’s Freaks crossed with David Lyn (more…)

Geek Love Poem T-shirt

// May 1st, 2009 // Comments Off // Lifestream

Product Description
The Bard’s got nuthin on us. The eloquence of a few lines of verse can be a powerful thing. Poetry can cause you to pause and think about life. It can incite feelings of rage. A good poem can even bring you to tears. We’re not sure where this one lies in the spectrum of emotional reactions, but we’re thinking somewhere between a chuckle and a look of heartfelt confusion. This shirt, designed by ThinkGeek Love Labs makes an especially good gift to one you love or (more…)

Geek Chic: The Ultimate Guide to Geek Culture (Paperback)

// April 25th, 2009 // Comments Off // Lifestream

Product Description
The Ultimate Guide to Geek Culture There’s never been a better time to be a geek. After decades, if not centuries of persecution, ridicule and never, ever getting the girl, geeks are hot. They are scientists, programmers, artists, musicians, actors, videogamers, skateboarders and architects. They have risen above unimaginative educational systems, hostile social environments, and conventional employers to develop the most liberating, global, inventive and democra (more…)

Bringing Up Geeks: How to Protect Your Kid’s Childhood in a Grow-Up-Too-Fast World [BARGAIN PRICE] (Paperback)

// April 19th, 2009 // 10 Comments » // Lifestream

Review
“Columnist, author and mother Hicks (The Perfect World Inside My Minivan) reminds us that raising children, difficult in itself, can become a Herculean task at odds with the world around us. Hicks explains how parents can protect their children’s innocence while teaching thoughtfulness, critical thinking skills, proper behavior and spirituality to better help them navigate childhood obstacles-peer pressure, pop culture and ubiquitous media input-and pave the road for health (more…)

The Geeks’ Guide to World Domination: Be Afraid, Beautiful People (Paperback)

// April 13th, 2009 // Comments Off // Lifestream

Product DescriptionTUNE IN. TURN ON. GEEK OUT.Sorry, beautiful people. These days, from government to business to technology to Hollywood, geeks rule the world. Finally, here’s the book no self-respecting geek can live without–a guide jam-packed with 314.1516 short entries both useful and fun. Science, pop-culture trivia, paper airplanes, and pure geekish nostalgia coexist as happily in these pages as they do in their natural habitat of the geek brain.In short, dear geek, here you (more…)

2009-04-04 Lifestream

// April 4th, 2009 // Comments Off // Lifestream

	6:59am	2009-04-03 Lifestream
	7:01am	antic shared a link on Google Reader. Thirsty?
	7:33pm	antic posted 2 Jaikus on Jaiku. (Show Details)

2009-04-03 Lifestream

// April 3rd, 2009 // Comments Off // Lifestream

	2:11am	antic posted a tweet on Twitter. en route to Ototo for @sushicoder \m/
	2:26am	antic posted a tweet on Twitter. Sitting against the glass-lit wall at Ototo… Yum http://twitpic.com/2qws7
	2:29am	antic posted a tweet on Twitter. This menu looks So good I’m thinking of just pouring soy sauce on it. http://twitpic.com/2qwwm
	4:00am	antic shared 6 links on Google Reader. (Show Details) Honda’s Brain-Machine Interface: controlling robots by thoughts alone Who Should be in Charge of U.S. Cybersecurity? DNA False Positives April 03, 2009 Honda's Brain-Machine Interface: controlling robots by thoughts alone Rainforests may pump winds worldwide
	4:44am	antic posted a tweet on Twitter. #sushicoders are hardcore geek \m/ #sushicoder http://twitpic.com/2r2fy
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2009-04-02 Lifestream

// April 2nd, 2009 // Comments Off // Lifestream

	6:59am	2009-04-01 Lifestream
	6:59am	2009-04-01 Lifestream
	5:56pm	antic posted a tweet on Twitter. If you have an iPhone and enjoy playing chess, download Chess with Friends (free) and play me – username: antic
	6:11pm	antic posted a tweet on Twitter. Yes, I’m going to http://twtvite.com/3so98e w00t! #twtvite #sushicoder
	8:22pm	antic posted a tweet on Twitter. need to make a satire video with 3d models? nice: http://www.xtranormal.com/
	8:54pm	antic shared 5 links on Google Reader. (Show Details) Honda’s Brain-Machine Interface: controlling robots by thoughts alone Who Should be in Charge of U.S. Cybersecurity? DNA False Positives Honda's Brain-Machine Interface: controlling robots by thoughts alone Rainforests may pump winds worldwide
	9:20pm	antic posted 11 items. (Show Details) Dado Stacking Cubes Ball Miniland Young Mad Scientist Alphabet Blocks USB Memory Watch – 8GB Ball of Whacks – Red RFID Experimentation Kit Mozart Magical Cube AntWorks – Space Age Ant Habitat – AntWorks Dress Up Pirate Doll 400 Watt Power Dome Mini Generator Pit and Pendulum