Part 1 of a hilarious and very informative tutorial series on Photoshop by Donnie Hoyle.

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Internet group Anonymous has declared war on The Church on Scientology via messages posted on their websites and with a YouTube vid released earlier this week.
This announcement came as a response to attempts by the Church to keep secret an internal video meant to be viewed only by Scientologists, featuring actor Tom Cruise. Despite [...]

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The Japan Origami Plane Association together with the University of Tokyo have plans to fly a paper airplane from the International Space Station to Earth. The group have developed and tested a prototype which has withstood temperatures of around 300 degrees, simulating the conditions expected during reentry into the atmosphere at over 24,000 km/h.
The group [...]

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Lego Master Mark Kelso spent the past nine months building a model model of the Invisible Hand, General Grevious’ ship from Star Wars Episode III.

The model is a massive 231 studs long, 41 studs wide and weighs about 30 pounds. Mark decided to eliminate as many visible studs as possible which meant that he had [...]

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The uber cool geek babe Veronica Belmont speaks with Art Lebedev the creator of the Optimus Maximus keyboard.
For those not familiar with the OM, the keyboard contains a small organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display behind each key so that each keys appearance and mapping can be changed at will.
It looks great but the price is [...]

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ah young geek love… it’s a splendid thing :)

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This is a clever way of browsing the web on a locked down workstation by using Microsoft’s HTML Help program.

1. Open calculator. You can do this quickly with Windows button+R on your keyboard, type ‘calc’ in the run box, click OK.
2. In Microsoft Calculator go to Help -> Help Topics.
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I received 78 credits on The Sci Fi Sounds QuizHow much of a Sci-Fi geek are you?

Take the Sci-Fi Movie Quiz canon s5

Your Score : 78 credits
You’re a major sci-fi geek! Do you speak Klingon?
um… no i don’t

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a true geek…

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Awesome hack of a roadside sign in Sydney, Australia. Kudos to the perp!

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Looking for a present for the sci-fi loving geek in your life? If you have a spare $7900 then you can’t go wrong with a 7-foot tall Cylon.

Made by Fred Barton Productions, each Cylon features a 100% fiberglass body with a Hammered Duo-Tone Finish and is handmade.
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“w00t,” an expression of joy coined by online gamers, was crowned word of the year on Tuesday by the publisher of a leading US dictionary.
Massachusetts-based Merriam-Webster said “w00t”, typically spelled with two zeros, reflects a new direction in the American language led by a generation raised on video games and cell phone text-messaging.
It is like [...]

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