Take a Time Out

One of the funniest video shorts I have seen in a long time is called "Time Out" by Robbie Chafitz. It was premiered at Sundance.

Did-You-Know the Best-Selling Personal Computer of All Time?

As many computer geeks of my generation probably assume, it was the Commodore 64. This was the first introduction to computers that most GenXers had in their childhood. While it was a great vehicle for playing video games, the "Sony Playstation" of its time, it was also a good vehicle to program BASIC on or to run word processing software.

The C64, as it is called by the inner circle, is not the best computer for hacking into government defense systems. Instead, that would be the IMSAI 8080 microcomputer, as featured in the geek hero movie, War Games, starring Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy.

Geeky Things: A Cubicle Playset for Adults

I know when I am very bored at work, I have always wanted to have a little cubicle playset of my very own to pass the time. In the spirit of Dilbert cartoons and Office Space, "The Cubes - Cubicle Playset" available at ThinkGeek. lets you enter the fantasy land that might be your very own job. Maybe you are not the "Unix" guy, maybe you have always been the "Windows" guy and you've just always wanted to be the "Unix" guy. Well, now you can PRETEND TO BE THAT GUY with your very own Cubicle Playset.

Did-You-Know What Company Filed the Largest Tax Return in History?

It is almost February. Tax documents are arriving in the mail on a daily basis. If you feel overwhelmed by completing your taxes, imagine how it was for General Electric (GE) in 2006. They e-filed a tax return that, if printed, would have been 24,000 pages! According to the Tech Republic, this was the largest tax return ever filed. Talk about overwhelming.

Source: TechRepublic, Geek Trivia: A Tax to Grind

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