Geek Friday

Geek Friday

By Faith E. Korpi and Jason SeiferTechnology
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Geek Friday episodes

  • Episode 82: This is a Second Hand Batman Story

    In this episode of Geek Friday, Faith and Jason talk about Google Glass, iPhone robots, tech baggage, and more.

    • Twitter / ian128K: They made a @jseifer action ...
    • Your Favorite Movies Laid Out as Vintage Treasure Maps - Wired Science
    • HubbleSite - NewsCenter - Hubble Finds New Neptune Moon (07/15/2013) - The Full Story
    • View-Master - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • Romotive | The Fun Personal Smartphone Robot that You Can Program
    • 8.3 filename - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • A GIF for every occasion — Trust Me, I'm Faith
    • More Employers Finding Reasons Not to Hire Candidates on Social Media, Finds CareerBuilder Survey - CareerBuilder
    • How Much Does It Cost to Be Spider-Man? [INFOGRAPHIC]
    • How Much Would It Cost to Be Batman in Real Life? [INFOGRAPHIC]
    • Nokia's Lumia 1020 is a lot of camera in a high-end smartphone body (hands-on) | The Verge
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    • Make Perfect Work Schedules - Scheduling Employee Scheduling Software
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    • Episode 81: A Clothery?

      In this episode of Geek Friday, Faith and Jason talk about the Man of Steel, robots, graph search, the vomit comit, and more.

        • A Look Inside the Real Disney Vault | GeekDad | Wired.com
        • The polar bear shot was meant to be in a studio | David S. Goyer And Zack Snyder On Man Of Steel's Secrets | Features | Empire
        • Asimo struggles on first day as science museum guide | Crave - CNET
        • Facebook Privacy Graph Search Settings - Business Insider
        • 16 High-Tech '90s Gadgets That Are Pretty Lame When You Think About It
        • Child's Own Studio | custom making soft toys with children
        • mermaids and monsters - a set on Flickr
        • Our weightless wait is over: Zero-g flight arriving soon - GeekWire
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        • Episode 80: Don't Wave Your Mocking Jazz Hands at Me

          In this episode of Geek Friday, Jason and Faith talk about punctuation with emoticons, Plutos' new moons, video games, and more.

          Show Notes
          • That ‘Captain Planet’ Movie You Wanted Is Happening
          • Weddings Used To Be Sacred And Other Lessons About Internet Journalism | TechCrunch
          • Kim Røen - Google+ - New life motto: "If no one comes from the future to stop…
          • Amazon.com: If at First . . . (Short Story) eBook: Peter F. Hamilton: Kindle Store
          • Pluto’s Newly Discovered Moons Get Official Names – News Watch
          • Omni: Move Naturally in Your Favorite Game by Virtuix — Kickstarter
          • Virtuix Omni VR treadmill demoed with Minecraft in multiplayer mode (video)
          • Why retail console games have never been cheaper, historically | Ars Technica
          • Apple's Trademark of 'iWatch' Fuels Speculation - NYTimes.com
          • KREYOS: The ONLY Smartwatch With Voice & Gesture Control | Indiegogo
          • BBC - Future - Health - Why you think your phone is vibrating when it is not
          • Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel
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          • Episode 79: Introverts

            In this episode of Geek Friday, Faith and Jason talk about Instagram and video, introverts, movies they want to see made, and more.

            • The Batman Superman Movie: World's Finest (TV 1997) - IMDb
            • Batman Superman Movie Worlds Finest part 1/12 - YouTube
            • Instagram Blog
            • Ambiverts — Trust Me, I'm Faith
            • Caring for Your Introvert - Jonathan Rauch - The Atlantic
            • 10 Myths About Introverts
            • Seven Things Extroverts Should Know About Introverts (and Vice Versa) | Psychology Today
            • Captain Planet and the Planeteers (TV Series 1990–1996) - IMDb
            • Don Cheadle is Captain Planet from Don Cheadle, Gillian Jacobs, Brenda Song, Efren Ramirez, William Moseley, James Davis, NickCorirossi, Charles Ingram, Funny Or Die, JasonSereno.com, Steven Leeds, BoTown Sound, kevinstewart, Brian Guest, Christin Trogan,
            • Microsoft backtracks on Xbox One sharing policies - CNN.com
            • Pebble: E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android by Pebble Technology » Pebble OS 1.11 + Orange/Grey Shipping + 2-way Apps + Germany — Kickstarter
            • Those cool Silicon Valley offices? More like secretly evil empires - Quartz
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            • Episode 78: Hold On, It’s My Internet Watch

              In this episode of Geek Friday, Faith and Jason talk about Mutant Rights, texting at the bar and beer glasses that avoid it, real life horror movies, and more.

              Oh, and there is a review and discussion WITH SPOILERS of Man of Steel.


              Links and Notes
              • Mutant Rights - Radiolab
              • Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival (oddball_tour) on Funny or Die
              • Twitter / faitherina: @all_tingli @joshuamli PUT ...
              • The beer glass that only stands upright when balanced on your phone - Telegraph
              • Confirmed: 1-Billion-Year-Old Water Tastes 'Terrible' - Rebecca J. Rosen - The Atlantic
              • What the Kids Are Doing: A Search Engine for 4 Million Vines - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic
              • Pride and Prejudice Revisited (2005) | Matthew Macfadyen
              • egotripland.com | Peanuts Goes Hip-Hop in Mark Drew’s “Deez Nuts” (GALLERY).
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              • Episode 77: I’m cool with the gesture
                In this episode of Geek Friday, Faith and Jason talk about the Apple keynote, Comixology, and random musings.
                • Google Study Can Predict Success Of Movies - Business Insider
                • Special Release: "Faith" Troll Karaoke | Geek FridayGeek Friday
                • Apple - MacBook Air
                • Apple - Mac Pro
                • 10 Best Stoner Movies of All Time: 'Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure' 1989 | Rolling Stone
                • The Internship | Official Movie Site | In Theaters June 7
                • 'The Internship' Poised To Be Biggest Comedy Of 2005 | Video | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
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                • Longtroll Karaoke

                  This is the karaoke version of the long troll that Jason performed in episodes 71 - 75. We hope you enjoy it.

                  For those of you who would like to have followed along, here are the time markers that Jason kept for the snippets. They are a bit out of tune with the actual episode times because of the delay that the theme song and other editing add:

                  • 72 - 19:41, 28:46, 38:00, 43:43, 53:00, 54:13
                  • 73 - 16:10, 30:03, 44:00
                  • 74 - 17:30, 22:40, 25:00, 38:01, 47:00, 52:51
                  • 75 - 08:15, 27:35, 34:13, 40:43, 41:00, 42:15, 44:13, 48:40, 50:18, 51:57, 52:45, 53:08, 54:29, 54:54, 55:05, 55:44, 57:47, 58:13, 58:33
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                  • Episode 76: The Long Troll

                    In this episode of Geek Friday, Faith and Jason talk about trolling, super hero toy classification, weddings, Google Glass, and more.

                    • Flesh-eating bacteria amputee Aimee Copeland uses new bionic hands - CNN.com
                    • Teaching You The Basics! - YouTube
                    • Are Transformers Superheroes?
                    • Twitter / Gentle_Sonia: @jseifer This is for you. ...
                    • Video: Star Trek's 'Data' checks out Google Glass for first time: 'How do I reset?' - GeekWire
                    • The largest model ever built: The making of life size LEGO X-Wing plane Star Wars | Mail Online
                    • New Government Documents Show the Sean Parker Wedding Is the Perfect Parable for Silicon Valley Excess - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic
                    • We Have Ourselves a Groomzilla - Megan Garber - The Atlantic
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                    • Episode 75: Never Try To Understand Where Internet Commenters Are Coming From

                      In this episode of Geek Friday, you can surf Tumblr with Faith, talk about eye contact with Jason, discover new watches, cocktails, and more.

                      • Written? Kitten!
                      • Knope Compliments
                      • Vocab — Trust Me, I'm Faith
                      • Dinner party drawings
                      • Movies In Color
                      • The Decline of Eye Contact - WSJ.com
                      • Martian Watches - The World’s First Voice Command Watch.
                      • 'Likes' are a Flawed Currency - Photographer.io Blog
                      • Saga of Zzzzs — Trust Me, I'm Faith
                      • This is a link to scientific study about falling asleep
                      • Pop Chart Lab — The Cocktail Chart of Film & Literature
                      • A new inbox that puts you back in control | Official Gmail Blog
                      • The Illustrious Omnibus of Superpowers #2
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                      • Episode 74: Dude I Googled It

                        In this episode of Geek Friday, Faith and Jason talk about the correct pronunciation of GIF, Yahoo!'s Tumblr acquisition, and more.

                        This episode contains spoilers for Star Trek: Into Darkness.

                        • star trek tng - What is the origin of the "Riker Chair Maneuver"? - Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange
                        • Creator of the GIF says it is pronounced "Jif" - Telegraph
                        • Steven Moffat: how fans saved the Doctor Who finale | Television & radio | guardian.co.uk
                        • Marissa's Tumblr • I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an...
                        • Yahoo Back On Top After Purchasing Millions Of 13-Year-Old Girls’ Blogs | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
                        • My Heart Beats for Hummus | Exclamation: Tumblr. + Yahoo! = !!
                        • The One-Person Product – Marco.org
                        • Theater Night: Vigilantes 1, Vulgarians 0 | National Review Online
                        • Microsoft Reveals New Xbox One Game System : The Two-Way : NPR
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