from Geek and Poke
Greetings,
I hope that the week has treated you well and that you have achieved all manner of wonderful things. There has been a lot going on with the SIGIR conference low-down, the Google-Yahoo deal (it would be funny, no?), and all of the craziness surrounding cognition, nanotechnology and robotics. What a fantastic world we live in. I wish we could peer back down at ourselves from the future to appreciate how fragile and naive our “high tech” really is 
Without further ado…
Cult:
Helen Keller mode /n./
1. State of a hardware or software system that is deaf, dumb, and blind, i.e., accepting no input and generating no output, usually due to an infinite loop or some other excursion into deep space. (Unfair to the real Helen Keller, whose success at learning speech was triumphant.) See also go flatline, catatonic. 2. On IBM PCs under DOS, refers to a specific failure mode in which a screen saver has kicked in over an ill-behaved application which bypasses the very interrupts the screen saver watches for activity. Your choices are to try to get from the program’s current state through a successful save-and-exit without being able to see what you’re doing, or to re-boot the machine. This isn’t (strictly speaking) a crash.
Please send:
Madsen Cargo bike – plenty of room for the surfboard, the laptop, the deck and the speakers, the BBQ every-thing I tell you.
Gullwing-America modernizes the Mercedes 300SL – very very pretty.
Ron Arad / Teuco bathroom installation – wow, this is amazing, a piece of art and a really cool bathtub/shower
Aerogrow garden – I don’t have green thumbs in fact they call me “little acid fingers”, I bet even I can grow somthing with this!
Mathmos space projector light – perfect mood lighting for Mass Effect
Lexeme of the week:
Pebcak:
Techie shorthand for “Problem Exists Between Chair and Keyboard”. Also refered to as ID10T
Code of the week:
if ((light eq dark) && (dark eq light)
&& ($blaze_of_night{moon} == black_hole)
&& ($ravens_wing{bright} == $tin{bright})){
my $love = $you = $sin{darkness} + 1;
};
Geek tweet of the week:
“Every hacker should get into genetic research: it’s the ultimate form of reverse engineering.” (@siovene)
Time-sink of the week:
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