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Free Game Giveaway - Every Day!

Just like our daily free software giveaway, we now have a daily game giveaway.

If the image doesn't appear (it has issues sometimes) just click on the blank space below to see the free Game of the Day.
Game Giveaway of the Day

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Classic Engineer Jokes

Yeah, yeah. You've probably heard them all - but they are still pretty good.

Here are nine classic Engineer jokes

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Water on Mars Amazing Photo

The first picture from NASA of water on Mars. It's amazing.

Check it out

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Don't tick off an engineer

I wonder how long it took for the people to figure out how much the check was for?

Check made out by an engineer

For those of you who are mathematically challenged, 0.002 + e raised to the 2pi power is 535.4936555. The limit of the sum, as n goes to infinity, of 1 over 2 to the n'th power is 1.

So the check is made out for $536.49. But you already knew that, right?

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Microsoft - Windows Marketplace
Dutch department store webpage

HEMA is a Dutch department store. The first store opened on November 4, 1926, in Amsterdam . Now there are 150 stores all over the Netherlands . HEMA also has stores in Belgium, Luxemburg, and Germany . In June of this year, HEMA was sold to British investment company Lion Capital.

Take a look at Hema's product page You can't order anything; it's in Dutch, but wait a few seconds and watch what happens.

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Funny PC vs Mac Videos

You know those "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" commercials?"

They were just begging to be parodied and there are a lot of good ones out there such as these Revenge of the PC clips:













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Why we trail the world in Math

A man was riding the bus. He was sitting next to a woman who was reading a newspaper.

The headline blared "12 Brazilian soldiers killed." She shook her head at the sad news and asked "How many is a Brazilian?"

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Dilbert Widgets

Come back every day to see the daily Dilbert comic.

Or check out the Dilbert Widget Page to get a widget like this for your own site or blog.

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Microsoft for sale on eBay

It's true. Get your bids in now

Take a look at the news item

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Does Size Matter?

We live on a big planet - we should get some respect, right?

Take a look at these images and see how big you feel.

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The Domino Theory

What do you do with all those outdated PCs?

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Spooky Geek Gadgets

There’s something about Halloween that brings out the inner geek. Whether you live in a castle or a dungeon, your pals at Psooodough Mart have dug up a wacky list of (mostly) techie toys designed to set the stage for a geeky Halloween experience.

Check them out

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Lego my Escher!

Escher's "Relativity" in LEGO®. An "impossible" picture drawn by the brilliant MC Escher comes to life with Legos.

Check it out


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Can we shoot the end users?

If you are a system administrator and/or have to manage and control programmers then you will relate to this online game. Give it a try


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I'm a Doctor Jim, not a Screensaver

I know all about Black 47. That's the Irish Band named after the most tragic year of the Irish potato famine - 1847. But I had never heard of System 47.

Turns out it is a Star Trek reference as explained at schlock.net: "Midway through Star Trek: The Next Generation, the number 47 began appearing on Star Trek seemingly anywhere the writers needed a number. Shields would drop to 47 percent; 47 people would die in a disaster; 47 minutes would remain until certain death."

So when the guy behind MeWho.com created his Star Trek screen save, he named it System 47.

It's a free download (only 1.3 MB) and you can always uninstall.

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Hit the Penguin and Tranquilize Sheep

Here's two fun websites to test your reaction times. First is a hit the penguin with a bat - go for distance. Click on Bigfoot to start and then again to swing.

The second is Tranquilize the sheep.

No sheep or penguins were harmed.

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Can you hear me now?

Have you heard the buzz about the new ringtone that supposedly only teens can hear?

The story is that some store owners were playing a sound that was supposed to keep mosquitoes away and found that teens could hear it too but not adults. So they started playing it to keep teens from loitering.

But teens can be industrious so someone figured that if they could hear it but not adults, it would make a perfect cellphone ringtone - one that teachers and other adults couldn't hear but their friends could.

The Great Lakes Geek spent too many years with the amps cranked to 11 to hear much of anything anymore but I was still able to detect this sound. Can you?

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Britney's Guide to Semiconductor Physics

This is a great reference. Who would have thought that Britney Spears was such an expert in Schrödinger's equation and Quantum Physics. But she must be. It's on the Internet so it must be true, right?

The lessons are actually very good and the Britney connection makes it fun. These guys did a great job with their site.

Briney Spears teaches physics
Maybe you can get your teen son to do his homework now.

Check it out.

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