Classic Family Guy Song -- The Fellas at the Freakin' FCC. (iKlipz)
All Judd Apatow movies, deconstructed. (Hollywood Fail)
Brutal honesty on a first date. Brutal! (iKlipz)
Cloaking devices are real. No, really! (Ars)
Lou reads the E/N Forums, because Lou can read! (Lou Reads)
Awesome RC gadget for your car. Surf's up, dude! (Walyou)
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Love big collars and repetitive music? Always wanted your very own super-cheesy 1970's discoteque? Well, now it's possible and affordable -- with USB technology.
Step One:
USB Powered disco ball from Xoxide. All the ambience you need. ($20)
Step Two:
Oh yes it's ladies night, and the feelin's right, with this disco lady USB stick. ($22)
Step Three:
Stay coooooool, kitty cat. Air condition your shirt, and dance the night away in sweat-free comfort. ($214)
Step Four:
Put on your disco shoes. No, really. They dance for you. (Priceless)
Jeez, Louise! It's about freaking time! It looks like AOL and Time Warner will part ways.
The TW/AOL board isn't offering specifics, according to this week's NY Times article, but the reports indicate a breakup is imminent.
According to word on the street, the merger of Time Warner and AOL cost shareholders $100 Billion. Gee, we wonder why? Aren't lots of people interested in paying for late 90's internet services? Yesterday's annoying technology, today!
One hundred billion dollars. You might think it's hard to make that much money disappear, but in reality, all you need to do is play this video one hundred billion times, and you could accomplish the same feat.
Nerdy doormats are nerdy! (Waylou)
Sweaty R&B shirts are sexy... right? (iKlipz)
Phunny How I Met Your Mother episode tackles texting etiquette. (GeekSugar)
And here is that episode, if'n you wanna watch it. (CBS)
Macs to get Blu Ray? Yipee! (cnet)
Techno-faucet makes washing your hands expensive! (Aware Geek)
What if Michael Bay did My Little Pony? (iKlipz)
From time to time we put together Haiku poems, using only subject lines from crappy SPAM we receive. Here's today's sad, sad entry...
"Swine Flu"
Where the hell are you
N.Y. Victims of Swine Flu?
Subscription canceled
If you guys have any Spam Haiku to share, send to contact@geekpadshow.com
Check out these two photos. The first one is Honda's brand new 2010 Insight hybrid. The second is the 2009 Toyota Prius.
Honda assures us that they were not trying to completely rip off the design of the uber-popular Prius, and we take them at their word. C'mon, look at how completely different these two vehicle designs are.
Here's six major differences:
The new Axxana Phoenix Black Box System is one scary piece of hardware. According to the company, the SSD backup unit can withstand:
"Terror?" An earthquake that rips your Barbie Dream House in half? Even the "Weather" icon looks like a friggin' lightning bolt wrapped in a tornado!
At just $280, the new ContourHD helmet-cam is the first affordable way to document your horrible spills, brutal crashes, and humiliating accidents in full Hi Def!
Company has assured us it is perfect for filming:
The hottest SCI-FI chicks ever. (TV Munchies)
At $1400, this is the craziest Swiss Army Knife we've ever seen. (LikeCool)
Hey, Ladies. Some guys say all the right things. (1-900 Sensitive Men)
Best. Pac-Man. Ad. Ever. (Level One Boss)
Do you find movie plots laughable? So do the Whitest Kids You Know. This is their funny take on features. (Movie Pitching Guy)
Priest transforms into Top Gun. (Adultolescence)
Car lighter/USB charger is a must-have gadget. (Walyou)
Groovy news, everyone. According to the people at SonicState.com, Moog music might finally make a comeback, thanks to a new release of Arturia's MiniMoog V2 software.
Three decades ago, Moog systems delivered the high tech sound in pop music. It was the keyboard and electronic system that allowed the engineering geeks who had taken music lessons, to join cool bands. Or at least, they could enhance the music in the recording studio.
The initial reviews of Arturia's release look promising. But is that a good thing? Well, we're not exactly sure. On the one hand, a top-notch digital Moog system will better help people re-create the sound of a real Moog set-up. On the other hand, do we really want more Moog music?
What's that, brother? You're unfamiliar with the outta sight, 70's sounds that a Moog system delivers? Check out this Schaefer beer ad for a super-dooper demonstration. Right on!
A cucumber packed with beef sticks will burn for almost two minutes!!
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Holy Jeebus! We almost lost our lunch when we found this amazing miracle of science and nightmares come to life.
Some crazy Canadian voodoo doctors have figured out how to keep lungs alive out of the body so they can be used for transplants.
While that's all well and good, we're wondering what this means to the Chinese organ harvest industry? We invested heavily is immigrant kidneys in 2008. You Canadians keep your hands off our guts and we'll be just fine.
In other news, know anyone who needs a kidney? We've got a closet full of these things...
Like Bill Gates, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is a very smart gentleman with an occasional big mouth. Below are some genuine Jobs quotations that irked us good. Talk about an ego...
9. I want to put a ding in the universe.
8. I was worth over $1,000,000 when I was 23, and over $10,000,000 when I was 24, and over $100,000,000 when I was 25, and it wasn't that important because I never did it for the money.
7. The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They're just like dead fish washing up on the shores.
6. Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don’t know any better.
5. [Bill Gates]'d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.
4. The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products.
3. My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better.
2. We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.
1. Click. Boom. Amazing!
Special bonus:
Steve's currently sidelined with a mystery illness. But what is it??
Hey there, college students! Wanna earn cash by selling your body for scientific experiments? Well of course you do! How else are you going to pay your fraternity and sorority dues?
Today's Webby nominee is brought to you by the ad wizards at Door Number 3, and financed by Cedra Clinical Research. Their site, getyourdrugon.com is an attempt to use irony to recruit young people to participate in medical experiments.
Their recruiting technique? Poking fun at the very same overblown, federally coddled drug industry that these young people are going to help. Visitors enter their silly answers into an online form, which creates a series of phony pharmaceutical drug pamphlets, based on your answers. It's like Mad Libs! Except they spent thousands of government subsidized dollars to make the site, and if they convince you to participate, your body is now a meat puppet for the pharmaceutical industry.
In this era of irony, we at Geek Pad have a general rule of thumb: Just because you make fun of yourself for doing something stupid, ridiculous or awful, doesn't mean that you are no longer engaged in doing something stupid, ridiculous or awful.
Good luck, world!
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When Bluetooth headsets first became popular, we thought it was cool. But we've seen sooo many bad ones, we thought it was time to highlight some of the worst offenders.
For your derision and enjoyment, let's proceed.
Rule: If you're going to wear a headset, people should know its a headset. Rectangles on ears look like, well, we don't know. But it's not a headset. Get rid of it.
Next time you dine with your wife, why not don a throbbing blue light on your ear? She doesn't seem disturbed by it, but we are.
What's wrong with this picture?
A) The headset looks painful
B) The headset looks awkward
C) The creepy model is staring off into the distance like he's going to kill someone.
D) All of the above
Is this a headset? Technically no. But it's awful. Imagine seeing someone actually using this device. It would drive you up a wall. It's akin to someone taping scissor blades to the inside of their index and middle digits, so that they can do the "scissor" motion with their fingers, and they'd actually be able to cut stuff. Boo!
Want people staring at your ear canal trying to figure out the time? We don't either. Bad headset. Bad!
Ugly, and impractical. Unless, of course, this headset comes with a very small person to press those very small buttons? 
We recently re-watched the original Star Wars Trilogy. The headsets Lando Calrissian equipped on his bodyguards seemed cool, but useless. These guys were easily blown away by the Empire's thugs, despite the danger-sensing telephony attached to the sides of their heads. If you're gonna wear something so bulky, it better help you do your freaking job.
The solo man bib makes spilling fun and guido-ey. (LikeCool)
The creepiest desk lamp we've ever seen. (Walyou)
Most people hate COMIC SANS. (cnet)
Super Mario theme... with laserz! (Level One Boss)
Die Hard... with Twitter! (Trailer)
Via Cake Wrecks, here's an example of an online order form gone awry. You'd think someone would be checking these things before hitting "print"...
(If you can't catch the mistake, those flowers are supposed to be dark blue.)
And for those of you who never saw it, check out our "unsolicited jingle" about Cake Wrecks, one of our fave blogs.
In honor of Arbor Day, we bring you some of the best -- and most violent -- printer destruction videos from the interwebs.
After all, what better way to honor trees than by conserving paper? And there's no more entertaining way to do that than the savage destruction of a printer. People get pretty creative out there...
10. Baseball bats:
Playing GameBoy is fun! And, apparently, some form of face-torture. (LikeCool)
Make your own really bad animations! (Doink)
Alarm clock on wheels makes your mornings MUCH more interesting. (Walyou)
Someone's always thinking of new, ridiculous ways to hide USB thumb drives in normal stuff. It's a little nuts.
Today's "trying too hard" thumb drive is brought to you by Hershey's. At least they made it with the wrapper on. If it simply looked like chocolate, we might eat the damn thing.
Which begs the question: Can a human colon "pass" a thumb drive? Hmmm...
Check out this pic of the new X270V Nettop mini-PC. More than just a glamor-shot -- the photo reveals so much about the user that Shuttle, Inc. is trying to woo.
Apparently, their ideal customer...
1. Wears borderline "wacky" ties.
2. Prefers a wireless mouse, on the floor.
3. Designs retro track bicycles?
4. Is a deep-sea diver.
5. Lives in an apartment completely coated with snake skin.
If you, or anyone you know matches that description, this product is for you.
As for the product, it's pretty neat. Box has an Intel dual-core Atom 1.6GHz 330 CPU, and ships loaded with a SUSE Linux OS. Best part? Only around $440.
One more thing. Apparently, the machine works best when wrapped with an flowy man-scarf, much like Aerosmith's Steven Tyler:
We were recently reminiscing about our first personal computers (Apple IIE and Commodore 64 topped the list). Then we got to thinking about the people who shelled out hard earned money for our first computers -- our parents. While many families encouraged their sons and daughters to play sports and make friends, our families encouraged us to learn about technology. They made us into geeks.
What convinced our parents to be so tech-obsessed? Perhaps it was the TV advertisements. Here's a fun look back at personal computer ads of yesteryear...
Dork Yearbook website is a journey through dork history! (Dork Yearbook)
Video Games come to life... with music! (Level One Boss)
Yahoo! Answers gives lousy, lousy advice. (Whip it Out)
Be extra-geeky with computer man-jewelry. (Walyou)
Bid on your very own Battlestar Raptor. For real. (BoingBoing)
It's that time of year, people. Webby season! Nominations are out. In the coming days, we'll check out our favorite (and most despised) nominees.
Today's nominee of note is Forsman & Bodenfors' beat boxing basset hound. This campaign succeeds in the same way that Superbowl ads with talking animals succeed. Everyone claims they're tired of them, but they still laugh. Oh yes, they laugh.
It's a simple formula: 1) Computer generate a dog with adorable, moving lips: 2) Endow that dog with a beat box audio loop; 3) Offer buttons to enhance the beat boxing abilities of aforementioned dog, thus creating "customizability" to the dog's aforementioned beat boxing; 4) Get nominated for a Webby award.
Notice that buying the advertised product, pre-paid mobile phone cards, is nowhere in the formula. Why? Because there's no logical connection between a rapping dog and cellular phone service.
Check it out at the demo site.
Well not exactly... But why is it that kids always find the PSP's loaded with hot adult action? We've bought like 10 of the stupid things and all they seem to have on them is some games and junk.
Weird.
If you're an older nerd you will probably have a major nerdgasm over the "I have too much time on my hands" project made by Ben Heckendorn.
We applaud you super commodore freak! Not only do you still have a working C64 but you put the damn useless thing into such a killer hand-made case you left our mouths agape! Now don't waste anymore time! Fire up the Jumpman and go to town!
Check it out. A brand new Gmail Labs feature suggests recipients it thinks you forgot when composing an email.
Does Gmail really know your friends better than you do?
And what OTHER suggestion-based features will Gmail be rolling out in the near future?
GMAIL FRIEND ASSESSMENT TOOL:
GMAIL REPUTATION AUTO-SAVER:
GMAIL SNARKY SPELL-CHECK:
Dustin D'Aaddato present to you this cautionary tale of a man, roofies and comeuppance. enjoyed this because that one guy really looks like he was slipped a roofie. What? No. we mean how would we know what that looks like. Right? What are you suggesting? Look.... just watch the movie!
We've noticed that a lot of tech company names are actually initials. You know, like AMD, IBM, BASF, etc.
And a lot of 'em are sorta funny. For instance, big blue... I.B.M. When you say their company name out loud, doesn't it translate to "I take a dump"?
Anyway, now that we've got that image emblazoned in your brain, here are some other odd company initials we came across:
A.R.M. Limited
To us, it just sounds like some dude with T-Rex claws.
B.C.C. Research
These guys must have a HELL of a time sending emails. "No, don't blind carbon copy me... I work for BCC! Oh forget it, just fax the damn thing."
C.A.
You know it as global software giant Computer Associates. But WE know it as Cocaine Anonymous, which is a way more important organization... at least in our lives.
L.G.
Every time we hear this company name we only think of Living Greyhawk, the rad D&D campaign. Maybe that's because we're nerds.
M.A.N.
MAN is a German engineering company. If you work there, you would literally be "workin' for the Man every night and day."
S.N.K.
Japanese video game company? Or the sound Wolverine's claws make when they come out to play?
And finally...
T.H.X.
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