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  • Rover’s Eye View of Three-Year Trek on Mars [video]

    Its common knowledge that I have a major fascination with all things space related but what you probably didn’t know was that I once wrote for my high school newspaper and spent much of that time covering the latest news from the various robots driving around on Mars.  Actually, it was mainly an excuse to…

  • Pokemon Gyarados carved in the beach [pic]

    I’m not sure I have ever had the pleasure of posting some geeky beach art on here but this picture is a great place to start.  I was browsing Reddit yesterday when I came across this picture of a Gyarados carved into the sand that one member had submitted after spending his day on the…

  • Photographer captures Northern Lights in time-lapse [video]

    A photographer by the name of Eirik Evjen in northern Norway set up a camera on a mountain to take some photos of the sky at night last Friday.  To his surprise, when he checked out the pictures from the next day, he caught some spectacular shots of the of northern lights.  You can see a…

  • Record 750 Million photos posted to Facebook for New Years

    Image via Wikipedia Today, Facebook announced on its twitter account that a record 750 million photos were uploaded to Facebook during the New Years 2011 weekend.  That is a lot of pictures on a single social networking site!  Anybody with a guess how many pictures showed drunk people?  Anyway, that number is really impressive and…

  • Next Week on Global Geek News: MIX 2010

    Greetings fellow geeks! As I mentioned on this week’s podcast, I will be traveling to Vegas to attend Microsoft’s MIX 2010 conference.  There will be a ton of MIX coverage right here on the Blog and I am even going to try to do a podcast live from the event with whatever special guests I…