Geeky Posters
Friday, June 6th, 2008Here are some nice posters for the geek in your life. My favorite is the world map with each country’s top-level domains.
Link: http://royal.pingdom.com/…
(via The Presurfer)
News and other tidbits that Chad Cloman finds interesting enough to share
Here are some nice posters for the geek in your life. My favorite is the world map with each country’s top-level domains.
Link: http://royal.pingdom.com/…
(via The Presurfer)
Now this is -my- type of hard drive enclosure. It’s called a “stage rack.”
Learning to meditate is just a matter of using the right language.
Link: http://joyoftech.com/…
(via digg)
Several of these are really good. My favorite is: “The glass is neither half-full nor half-empty: it’s twice as big as it needs to be.”
Link: http://www.boardofwisdom.com/…
(via Neatorama)
Some advertisers are targeting their intended audience by creating ads that only qualified people can understand. My favorite is the one that requires you to know the first 10-digit prime number in consecutive digits of e.
Link: http://texturl.net/…
(via Neatorama)
Here at Chad’s News we don’t write with pencils anymore, but if we did, this would be the eraser we’d use. It’s a good gift for the computer geek.
Link: http://store.artlebedev.com/…
(via Neatorama)
This is a wooden machine gun that shoots 144 rubber bands from 12 rotating barrels. A finely-crafted work of engineering, and a definite must-have for the true geek. Apparently they’re quite popular, as they’ve sold out despite the $395 price tag.
Here are some nice tools for the web site developer or networking geek. The first is a comprehensive color chart with the corresponding HTML color codes (beats my method of guessing until I get something close to what I want). Second, are some quick-reference header diagrams for the various internet protocols (IP, TCP, UDP, and ICMP). Both of these links are courtesy of digg.