Archive for category: Geeks

Freshly Carved
/ October 30, 2012 9:02 pm

Freshly Carved

Just in time for Halloween, Tek Lado’s here to bring you the geekiest and the techiest in pumpkin carving. First, there’s a pumpkin for all the Apple fans (by Patrick Dukes). Firefox gets its own pumpkin love. And of course there’s something a little less tasteful for the Android crowd. For the WoW crowd, Blizzard’s Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest officially [...]

Geek Apparel: Battle Royale
/ October 2, 2012 3:46 pm

Geek Apparel: Battle Royale

We love TeeFury.  Their super limited-edition tees are available for one day only…then they’re history.  But sometimes we want more. Today, TeeFury is having a little fun.  Their TwoFury pits 2 super cool TeeFury originals against each other in an epic battle to sell the most shirts. Presenting Cowabunga by naolito vs. Game of Life by xiaobaosg It’s Turtles vs. [...]

Cloak Yourself: Halloween Coziness
/ October 1, 2012 7:03 pm

Cloak Yourself: Halloween Coziness

It’s officially October, which means it’s officially time to start planning the perfect Halloween costume.  Presenting Cloak Yourself, Tek Lado’s guide to costumes for the geek-minded. Remember Halloween back in the day?  After a chilly evening knocking on doors, consuming an entire pumpkin’s head-full of sugary goodness, you crashed and moms everywhere tucked in tiny ninjas, princesses and He-Men. Coziness [...]

Eggsterminate!  Eggsterminate!
/ September 20, 2012 3:02 pm

Eggsterminate! Eggsterminate!

Celebrity chef Alton Brown may be even geekier than he appears. After being lambasted by the twitter grammar police for improper you’re/your usage, he’s shunned text-based tweeting and adopted a twitter style all his own– tweeting pics of hand-written Post-It notes slapped on his computer screen. Thanks to a question from one lucky follower of @altonbrown, we have further proof [...]

Phlugtag Returns!
/ September 13, 2012 10:47 pm

Phlugtag Returns!

Place a 30-foot platform on the Camden Waterfront and ask Philadelphia to jump off.  Not sure you’d have many takers.  Challenge them to wear costumes, perform choreographed skits, and fly a homemade aircraft off the platform and you get over 300 applicants and the phenomenon known as Flugtag. This Saturday we will witness 35 lucky teams plummeting with Mummer enthusiasm [...]

Launch a Tardis Into Space!
/ September 6, 2012 1:24 pm

Launch a Tardis Into Space!

  We’ve all seen a TARDIS barreling through space and time, always aware that what we were watching was movie magic– the result of special effects.  But Travis of Sandusky, Ohio wants to make that TARDIS trip a reality. Travis began his Kickstarter campaign Launch a TARDIS into SPACE! with hopes of raising $500 to cover the costs of filming [...]

Plasti Dip Your World in a Rainbow of Colors
/ September 4, 2012 5:46 pm

Plasti Dip Your World in a Rainbow of Colors

I have a pair of serious sewing shears that can snip their way through the toughest fabrics.  The only problem?  My tiny hands get sore after only a few squeezes of their harsh metal handles.  What to do?  I can go crazy on them with athletic tape to add a little cushioning.  I can get someone else to do my [...]

AntiSec’s Latest– “FUCKING FBI IS USING YOUR DEVICE INFO”
/ September 4, 2012 4:09 pm

AntiSec’s Latest– “FUCKING FBI IS USING YOUR DEVICE INFO”

AntiSec’s latest hack raises serious concerns about the FBI’s possession of Apple user data. 1 million of Apple’s Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) were released as proof that Anonymous/LulzSec had gained access to a file containing over 12 million UDIDs.