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Cheap Geek Dates: Take a trip to the Grand Canyon with Google Maps Street View

1/31/2013 7:00 PM

There's a lot more to the experience of a vacation than just the destination, but Google still thinks it should be easier to actually see where you're going. While they've ...

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Blackberry's attempt to get back their shrinking market share falls flat

1/30/2013 5:09 PM

For about - oh, I don't know, the last decade or so - Research In Motion has been struggling. Formerly the heavyweight champion and pioneer of the smartphone movement, ...

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Oklahoma gamers unite to raise money for anti-violence charity

1/24/2013 12:15 PM

TechCon was supposed to be an epic gathering of local gamers from across Green Country. Now in it's fifth year, more than 100 students were planning to gather at Central ...

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Amazing 'Temple Run 2' has been download 20 million times in four days.

1/21/2013 3:43 PM

Temple Run 2, the successor to the mega-popular Temple Run game for iOS, has been enjoying a nice run (pun totally intended) since it came out last Thursday. I nabbed ...

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Facebook announces "Graph Search": an easier way to see and find new connections

1/15/2013 1:21 PM

As we all heard about the upcoming Facebook announcement, rumors began to swell: was it a new search engine? A phone? Was Facebook changing up your timeline ...

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New video shows why 'Avengers' deserves the best effects Oscar

1/11/2013 10:25 AM

'The Avengers' was undoubtedly one of the most successful movies of the year. While it won't win Best Picture at the Academy Awards in February - even if it were nominated, ...

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Add a visual jolt to your coffee with these "creature cups"

1/8/2013 3:57 PM

Everyone wishes they could crack that joke that initiates the 'spit-take' - you startle someone enough, and they spit whatever beverage they were just sipping out with ...

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Somebody please buy me this iPhone charger

1/4/2013 4:38 PM

Yeah, I know Christmas was just over a week ago. I'm not trying to be selfish here, but these new iPhone tankchargers are just so cool. World-famous tech toy designer ...

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What the heck is Marvel doing to Spider-Man?

1/3/2013 10:11 AM

Update: The writer responsible for this powerful story arc has admitted to receiving numerous death threats via Twitter and Facebook about his decision.

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Google's Santa Tracker now lets you visit Santa's village!

12/21/2012 10:15 AM

Since 2004, we've been watching Google track Santa as he makes his deliveries to each city on Christmas Eve. Previously, this required using Google Earth, but this year ...

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A holiday-themed Google easter egg "for the rest of us"

12/17/2012 9:58 AM

On a fairly regular basis, Google releases a new little quirk in their search engine that makes for a memorable search results page. Often, we see these in their 'Google ...

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Facebook and Google follow up with their own "year in review" sites

12/12/2012 12:09 PM

Yesterday I published a post on Twitter's 'Year on Twitter' report, which gave us some insight on the most popular tweets and conversations of 2012, and introduced ...

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Matt Clayton floats between being a nerd, geek or a dork. Has an extensive collection of toys, comics and video games that would make any adult feel ashamed to call themselves a parent. Unlike most nerds, he does enjoy sports, but his favorite sport is soccer, so that really doesn't count as a sport anyway. Can quote "Clerks" at the drop of a hat and owns a soft-coated Wheaten Terrier named Will Wheaton. And no, Ewoks could not have possibly taken down the Empire with just sticks and rocks.

Nerd strengths: Zombies, Star Wars, Video games, Game of Thrones, Tech, cars, British soccer.

Micah Choquette is a self-proclaimed web geek who generally despises the term "nerd." He can hold his own in a conversation about comics or movies with the other Prairie Nerds, but his heart belongs to the internet and his soul was sold long ago to Apple. He routinely follows many of the design and development gurus of the day, soaking in their ideas and putting them to work for the 'World. He's also an avid user and abuser of Social Media, and can be found on Twitter, Facebook and yes, even Google+.

Nerd Strengths: Apple, Coffee, Google, Coffee, Code, Coffee. In that order.

Anna Codutti has been a card-carrying nerd since high school and the beloved academic team. Now merely a pub-trivia ringer, her refined nerd tastes have focused on Buffy (yep, she's still going!), Doctor Who and anything Felicia Day does. Her childhood crush was "TNG's" Wesley Crusher, but now she wants to marry "The Big Bang Theory's" evil Wil Wheaton.

Nerd Strengths: Music blog snobbery, tabletop/party game dominance, and ability to read supernatural young adult novels at lightning speed.

Michael Dambold is a comic fanatic who has been reading Marvel Comics since he was 11. He's read almost every X-Title book in existence. He thinks Jean Grey needs to stay dead. He also has an obsession with Star Trek, Stargate and MST3k. He's a literary nerd, obsessed with works by Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov and Jules Verne.

Nerd strengths: Coffee chugging, X-Men & Marvel Comics, Star Trek, Stargate, X-Files, paranormal mysteries (Bigfoot, etc.), classic sci-fi TV, movies and books.

Chris Moore is not ashamed to be called a Geek. It is who he is first and foremost. While some out there hide from others that they play video games, he proudly displays his love and knowledge of the pastime. He hopes one day to have a collection of games which rivals that of a city library. To this day one of his greatest moments is that he was able to watch and record the original three Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies by sheer luck.

Nerd strengths: Video games and TV.

Jason Powers is the resident geek dad. He is trying hard to raise his kids to be smart, thoughtful nerds just like his Dad raised him. He was brought up on a steady diet of Doctor Who, JRR Tolkien, Douglass Adams, Sherlock Holmes, Vertigo Comics and vintage pulp noir novels. He's been watching shows made by the BBC for so long, he sometimes has a hard time grasping American television. He still enjoys Legos a great deal.

Nerd strengths: British Science Fiction, Star Wars, Sherlock Holmes, X-files, Coffee, Zombies, Space.

James Royal can tell you what Kirby crackle is. His favorite X-Man is Nightcrawler. He owns more than two dozen Star Wars novels. He knows how much damage a magic missile does. His favorite T-shirt features the insignia of Cobra, the ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world. He liked the Walking Dead before the Walking Dead was cool.

Nerd strengths: Comic books (especially Marvel), movies, Star Wars, fantasy novels, pro wrestling (does that count), 1980s cartoons and television shows, video games.

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