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mrch0mp3rs
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@gminks I have no lit to back this up; BUT: boys like hiearchies; imho geek culture is boy-influenced in many tech areas => hierarchies
 
G M
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@mrch0mp3rs the whole geek culture idea is interesting to me. What is geeky? What are the heirarchies in geekdom?
 
kasehDANpercaya
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The Master Diagram of Geek Culture [Image Cache]
Does your obsession with superheroes make you a movie-geek, a comic-geek, or both? What sort of geek are you? This master diagram will tell you what your geek culture sub-group is based on interests, obsessions, and idols. Click on the image for a closer...
 
rOckY
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The Master Diagram of Geek Culture [Image Cache]
Does your obsession with superheroes make you a movie-geek, a comic-geek, or both? What sort of geek are you? This master diagram will tell you what your geek culture sub-group is based on interests, obsessions, and idols. Click on the image for a closer...
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
Hyperlink: It’s Time to Learn How to Surf.
[Originally posted in Venture, December 2009]Google changed the web, and with that, the world.That is the corniest...
2 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
Have you heard of Samo Soviet?
I definitely have, a lot actually, over the past couple of years. Who exactly is Samo Soviet, I have no effing clue. Let me...
6 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture, Pop Culture
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
How to Hack Facebook: The Trick is Social Engineering
It is often neither security loopholes nor password cracking that allow people access our private information on Facebook...
6 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
Ex-Office Conversation: My Dead Titanium
Y in an SMS: “Hi Roobee, I’m laptop-less. I don’t know what to do with myself. I’m attempting to...
11 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
The joke is on you
I love these designer t-shirts. Look at the entire funny collection here.
11 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Design, Geek Culture
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
What stage of Internet Dependency are you in?
Okay, a lot of my posts these days have been about my own personal brand of heroine- my utter and absolute addiction to the...
14 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture, Pop Culture
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
Six more
I have more Wave invites, and they will go to the first seven commentators asking for one.
15 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
My favorite image in a while…
:)Via the charming Emmanuel Vivier’s blog.
20 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
Dreaming of Information Addiction
I’m browsing the web. Obviously. I’m ALWAYS browsing the web, even when I’m sinking knee-deep in design, or...
23 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture, Roba
 
GeekNews
GeekNews posted a blog entry
Fighting Fires Instead of Preventing Them
“There are businesses that want to make sure they keep making money by having cures that fix the last one, but not the...
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
GMail adds Yamli-like functionality
Many months ago we heard about Google Ta3reeb, a transliteration lab from Google that is very similar to Yamli. Today, I...
28 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
GEW Jordan: Internet Entrepreneurism
Yesterday evening was the launch of the Global Entrepreneurship Week in Jordan. The event is happening simultaneously all...
30 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Amman, Geek Culture
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
“I’m here from the internet”
Over the past week, my favorite sentence has been this: “I am going to a talk featuring the CEO of Firefox, the CEO of...
30 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
Writing for the ‘Human Web’: It Might Blow Up Any Second
Really, it just might.At least, that’s what today’s cool “Web 2.0″ websites want you to keep in mind...
30 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Design, Geek Culture
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
What happens when you put your family name into Google?
My rough estimations for Al-3assi:60% bad Muslim20% Assi Al-Hilani5% Eiman Il Assi10% 3assi Il Rahbani5% Assi River10% Random...
32 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
Happy Birthday Firefox
Is it okay that watching this video has made me feel more mushy-kind-of-happy than I’ve felt in a very long time? :)
35 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
My worst ailment
… I’m a cyberjunkie.Can’t. Force. Myself. Away. From. My. Keyboard. Although I’m about to fall asleep...
36 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture, Roba
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
25 Years of Facebook Friends
I am turning 25 in 2010, meaning that I have accumulated 25-years worth of friends, colleagues, and acquaintances. Being in the...
37 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture, Roba
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind
The Simpsons is one of the best shows ever cause it never got culturally stuck. It is still cool, still funny, still relevant,...
38 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture, Pop Culture
 
GeekNews
GeekNews posted a blog entry
Waiting for a new Geek Toy
If you are like me, when you get the *need* for a new geek toy, it seems that’s all you can think about in your spare...
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
How the Internet Enables Intimacy
TED Talk by anthropologist Stefana Broadbent suggesting the “social technology grid” is actually humanizing the...
39 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
Lose/Lose
Being not much of a gamer myself, you won’t often find gaming-related entries on this space (unless it’s Mario of...
41 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
Coolest iPhone app I’ve ever heard of
I don’t own an iPhone and I’m currently quite comfortable with my Nokia 5800, but this application sounds so cool...
41 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
Midweek Present
if (WIDGETBOX) WIDGETBOX.renderWidget('9e2da35d-bb0d-4795-855e-9a61fe140abf');Get the Super Mario Game widget and many other...
43 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
Three more
Google filled up my treasure box of Wave invites this week and I have three new invites to give. First three commenters who...
44 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
The best site to start today with
Here.Click link. Give it a second. Enjoy.:)
50 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
RIP Geocities (and Hamsterdance)
Today, at any moment, ten massive terabytes of internet history will be deleted. Whoosh. Deleted. Just like that. I wonder who...
51 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
The Laws of the Internet
There’s a brilliantly handy guide on The Telegraph to help increase internet literacy. Check out the 10 laws on their...
53 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
Awesomeness: Real Time Social Media in your face
Coolest “infograph” I’ve seen in a while. Baby, social media is ON FIRE.
55 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
AndTweetAway: Sorry, that was too long.
For those with tiny attention spans, here’s the best of 120-character link heaven from my Twitter:Changing your mind...
56 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
And they do it again.
Disney + magic + technology + sci fi + Steve Jobs + a forbidden apple + plasticness + multi-touch + Jonathan Ive= Magic Mouse....
56 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
The clutz curse
My left-hand index finger could not look worse.Around a month ago, I had a freak accident involving an X-Acto. It’s...
58 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture, Roba
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
Waving with Google
Today I feel very special. I mean, receiving an invite for wave from Google themselves along with only 100,000 users. I even...
63 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
“Yeah, when we were in our heyday, print was simply… print.”
I will probably be saying that in the next ten years.And it will sound as absurd as, I don’t know, not having colored...
63 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Geek Culture
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
The Evolution of Apple Ads
I remember seeing some vintage Apple ads in ancient copies of Reader’s Digest, but I never really noticed the brilliant...
65 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Design, Geek Culture
 
Roba
Roba posted a blog entry
Happy 100th
Just entering the seventh year from the day we moved to this city, my personal history with Amman is short. You can also count...
66 days ago And Far Away | Topics: Amman, Geek Culture