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geekculture.com appears as Jeopardy answer

geekjeopardy 20080301 213543 geekculture.com appears as Jeopardy answerOur friends Nitrozac and Snaggy over at GeekCulture / The Joy of Tech probably thought they hit the height of geek honors earlier this year when they were shown in Steve Jobs’ keynote address at Macworld SF 2008. They might have thought that was as good as it could get until they were alerted by one of their fans on Friday that the site was used for one of answers than that night’s Jeopardy.

The answer shown at right was worth $400 under the category “What’s That on the Top of Your Head?” The correct question (“What is a propeller?”) was given by contestant Gwynne Ash, a university professor from Austin, Texas, who unfortunately didn’t manage to win the game.

Even though I would have known the correct question, if I had been competing on Jeopardy that night, the question I would have blurted out would have been, “How cool is that!?”

Geek Culture’s propeller beanies are available in many styles and, yes, you really can have up to three propellers on one.

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In brief– Twitterrific 3.0.1 released

twitteriffic 20071112 142233 In brief   Twitterrific 3.0.1 released@all Iconfatory has posted the 3.0.1 update to Twitterific, squashing some nasty “bad request” bugs and adding a new 512 pixel icon. Twoosh!

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Greenpeace responds to ”A Greener Apple”

greenerapple 20070503 205620 Greenpeace responds to A Greener AppleApple Inc. has recently declared its new environmental commitment, “A Greener Apple”. The details of this announcement would elevate Apple’s score on Greenpeace’s ‘Guide to Greener Electronics,’ to approximately a 5 (from a previous score of 2.7) out of 10 points. Below is Greenpeace’s response to this announcement.

Apple has decided to bring us closer to the greener apple that Mac users all over the world have been asking for.

Apple’s new commitment to environmental transparency and the phase out of the worst chemicals in its product range are genuine steps forward. We look forward to Apple going further to green their existing products, to get non-toxic products on the market, and to announce a worldwide take-back and responsible reuse/recycling policies. We will continue to work with Apple users to ask Apple to do just that.

We have seen the enthusiasm with which Apple fans have greeted this campaign, and they have made clear what they want– an Apple which is not just green skin-deep, but green to the core. Greenpeace is asking that Apple re-use or recycle its products at the end of their lifecycles and not allow them to end up in scrap yards or add to the mountains of e-waste that the electronics industry has created. Apple must begin to address these growing problems to ensure that the workers and children of Asia and many developing nations no longer face the unnecessary environmental and health dangers posed by the high-tech industry’s waste.

Our work is not over until Apple users get that. We look forward to working with the new, greener Apple in future – toward the greening of the entire electronics industry.

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