Archive for the ‘Geek Stuff’ Category

First Radio Signal Detected From Beyond Our Solar System

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 ...

Search Terms - Round Two

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 ...

Search terms roundup

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 ...

Rocket Launch

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 ...