As hard as it is to get out of your warm and comfy bed in the mornings, you might as well wake up to a cool clock to start your day off right. Clocks can add some serious personality and design to a room, but the dreaded alarm can be a thorn in your side on those days when you just want to stay under the covers. If you hit the snooze five times every morning like me, you need some clock-to-human interaction to get you out of bed, rather than just pounding the heck out of the snooze on your old clock. Hence, I've compiled a list of clocks that are not only functional to tell time, will help you rise and shine, but that lend a geeky touch to the bedroom as well.
Our Apple tipsters haven't let us down before, so we know that this hot-off-the press news is likely fact and not fiction. Stay tuned, because next week (most likely Tuesday) Apple will be introducing new iMacs to their product line-up! The new and improved iMacs are said to be at the same price point as the current models and will probably receive a speed bump as well as a hard-drive increase. Yay! It's about time!
For my geek mommies out there, it's gotta be hard to reconcile your love for tech without inviting unwanted information into your kids' eyes and ears. Everything scandalous is a click away on the Internet, and your TV has always posed a big too-much-information-for-little-eyes threat. Thankfully, the blessed TiVo, amazing as always has a solution: KidZone.
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Oh, Nick Burns, or "Your Company's Computer Guy," is one of my favorite SNL characters ever — he would fix your computer, and then degrade you as only a bored IT guy can. Sadly, I have to say that Nick Burns is a too-often true stereotype. What is it about that job? I have had an IT guy treat me like I was a luddite, but luckily, the Sugar HQ computer guy is nice and respectful and has never told me to "MOOOOOOOOOVE!"
In this clip, Nick and his scathing impatience face off with Y2K and a 2000-era Jamie Foxx. Have any of you had a Nick Burns experience?
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Unique, reasonably priced wallets and gadget cases do exist! Etsy user
Quiet Doing has a huge collection of some of the most hippest accessories imaginable. Choose from keyboard wallets like the one shown here, turntable wallets, and record player Nano cases — J'adore! For all of my favorites, click "start slideshow" below!
I'm sure you've probably seen this video already, since it's been spreading on the Internet like a wildfire, but if you haven't, here's some background info to bring you up to speed. On Friday October 15, 1999, Nicholas White went outside for a cigarette break while working in New York's McGraw-Hill building (it was 11pm on a Friday). On his way back, the elevator stopped, and he was trapped for 41 hours.
The surveillance camera footage of those horrifying two days has just surfaced on the Internet and it has already been viewed 1.3 million times on YouTube. The video shows White panicking, pacing, trying to sleep and pry the doors apart. According to The New Yorker, who ran an entire article about the ordeal, White said that he feels as though people are so captivated by the video because they wonder what they would have done if it happened to them. I have to admit, after watching the video last week, I think about it every time I step foot in an elevator, even though I'm constantly armed with my cell phone. It also stirs up alot of emotions inside me, including frustration, sadness and hope for White. Why do you think people are so obsessed with this video?
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