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Daleks Invade London: Sanctioned by the BBC
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It was a strange sight on London’s Westminster Bridge when people saw Daleks rolling about, getting ready to exterminate everyone. The procession included four generations of Daleks, showing how the mutant creatures had evolved during the years.… |
July 17th, 2011
Harry Potter Maize Maze: Sending Him Off in Style
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll be fully aware that the final Harry Potter… movie is coming out this week. Apparently, people are celebrating (and commiserating) this all over the world. Check out what a farmer in the UK decided to do with his corn field. |
July 12th, 2011
Firebox Offers Angry Birds Plush Toys for UK Geeks
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I really like Angry Birds…, even if it does occasionally frustrate me and I fear the bill I will get from the in app purchases my daughter made. We have seen some plush toys made in the likeness of the Angry Birds characters before, but those were seemingly for |
January 14th, 2011
Uk iPad Price Drops With Orange Deal
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I am willing to bet that whatever country a geek lives in, if they are into tablets and don’t already own an iPad, the Apple gadget is high on their Christmas wish list. If you are a UK geek that wants an iPad 3G and wants a data plan to… |
December 5th, 2010
Geeks in Uk Get Holiday iPad Deal
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The iPad is sure to be at the top of holiday wish lists for geeks all around the world this year. If you are shopping for the iPad in the UK, some new deals are expected to go official today with Orange and T-Mobile (aka Everything Everywhere). The new offers… |
November 22nd, 2010
LEGO Reenactment of the Usa Vs England World Cup Match
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The world is presently going bonkers over the World Cup, which happens every four years. The US did really well in a recent match, which was promptly reenacted with LEGOs to commemorate the momentous occasion. I don’t know what’s more amazing, this little stop-motion reenactment or the fact that the… |
June 26th, 2010
Notificator: Primitive Twitter or High-Tech Bulletin Board?
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The article below, published in 1935 in the magazine Modern Mechanix, shows off a “robot messenger” called the Notificator, a gadget so nice Boing Boing posted it twice:… |
June 14th, 2010
Vacuum Cleaner Museum: a Place for Things That Suck
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He’s not the Godfather of Soul, but Nottingham, England’s own James Brown is a bit popular as well, not as an artist but as a geek. You see, Brown collects vacuum cleaners. The 30-year old Brown has been collecting Roomba’s ancestors since he was eight years old, when he found… |
February 22nd, 2010
Sky News Samples 6 Computer Repair Shops in London: Guess How Many Tried to Scam Them?
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A recent Sky News exposé gives PC repair shops a bad name. A really, really bad name. Sky News conducted a test of 6 repair shops in London. They intentionally broke a laptop by loosening a memory chip – a problem whose solution is just the reverse: put it back… |
July 26th, 2009
Sky Tv Makes Upside Down Remote Control “for Australians” in a Fit of Nationalism
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I don’t know about you but this is new to me: apparently the English and the Australians are bitter cricket rivals, so much so that they have a tournament, popularly known as The Ashes series, which only features the two teams. Imagine how ridiculous it would be if the EPL… |
June 30th, 2009
