Some days you stumble across something so geekily awesome it really has to be shared… Samuel L Jackson’s Exekiel 25:17 speech played out as a Google Wave… Geeky genius! Not only is it brilliantly executed (in every sense of the word), it also does a great job of showing off Google Wave’s features! Great job by the guys over at getwhirled.com.

(BTW, if anyone has a Google Wave access invite they’d like to send me i’d be most grateful!)

Groundhog Day - How long?!?

Here’s a question i’m sure you’ve been asking yourself:

How long does Bill Murray’s character, Phil Connors, spend living the same day over and over (and over and over etc…) in the the movie Groundhog Day?

Well, in the irregular series of posts we like to call ‘people with wayyyy too much time on their hands’, the folk ‘Wolf Gnards’ (subtitle ‘we nerd pop culture’… Yep, they really really do…) have figured out an answer!

The number? There are 36 separate days shown in the movie, but that’s really only the start… You have the various ways he tries killing himself, time to learn the piano, time to learn french, etc… I’ll let the people at Wolf Gnards give you the final result…

Web Hosting Search - Hosting Review Website

Just wanted to drop in a quick post to tell you about the nice people over at Web Hosting Search.

Webhostingsearch.com is a web hosting reviews website which read, rank, and give the best discounts on hosting plans for our visitors.  They help people to find their “online web home”, whether it be a small shared hosting to a motherload of a dedicated server.

They also have a decent resource of articles covering domain names, web hosting, programming, and industry news and bit.

Quite a handy site if your looking for new web hosting and don’t know who to choose!

Go visit webhostingsearch.com

15% Off All Geektown T-Shirts Sale!

As we’re getting into well into a pretty standard British summer… why not cheer yourself up from the depressing weather by purchasing a t-shirt or 2 from the GeekTown t-shirt shop. From now till the 23rd of Aug 2009, you can get a 15% discount on any product in the GeekTown tshirt store by using the code SUMMER2009 when you spend £30 or more.

We’ve got a whole bunch of different designs and are expanding all the time:

We have various designs for the ever popular ‘I’m What Willis Was Talkin’ ‘Bout’ t-shirt.

Declare you love for the genius of Whedon with a ‘Joss Whedon is My Master Now!’ t-shirt, or a ‘Firefly’ inspired t-shirt.

Show your a true gamer, with a Portal inspired ‘The Cake is a Lie’ t-shirt, or one of many World of Warcraft t-shirts.

Or you could just want a plain and simple ‘Geek’ t-shirt.

All of these and many more are available over at the GeekTown T-Shirt Shop!

Spotted this over on College Humor. I never realised, but for the opening of Back to the Future 2 they reshot the ending of Back to the Future 1 to tie the 2 movies together. The most noticeable difference has to be the haircuts!

Spotted this over on BoingBoing, and thought it was suitably geeky to post. A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with 5 pitches per octave in contrast to a heptatonic (7 note) scale such as the standard major scale. What’s interesting about the pentatonic scale is it seems to be pretty much universally ingrained on the  brain, and is common across many many forms of music throughout the world. And Bobby McFerrin has an rather interesting way of demonstrating this to an audience.

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival.