Archive for the ‘Geek Stuff’ Category
Monday, August 11th, 2008
The internets has it's collective panties in a bunch this morning after an article titled "First Radio Signal Detected From Beyond Our Solar System" was published by some geeks in South Africa. Many are heralding this as proof of alien life. The article (they are technically capable of receiving signals ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
Here's some more recent search terms that are, well, interesting.
fired from radio shack
I'm trying to imagine what you can possibly do to get fired from Radio Shack. Certainly being rude, ignorant, or lazy won't get you fired. I've personally seen that talking on the phone and texting instead of helping ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Although there doesn't appear to be much here on this site, smithplanet.com gets around 250,000 page views per month. A vast majority of the traffic comes from search engines, so I checked my site statistics to find what people are searching for. Here's a small sampling of what people searched ...
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
I stumbled across this video of a group of Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts that broke the world record for launching nearly 1000 rockets at the same time. I know it's very much a man/boy thing, but this is just awesome to watch.
In this one, watch for the rocket that ...
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