M.C. Escher was a famous graphic artist. Most famous for drawing impossible realities and constructions, explorations in infinity and perspective using architecture, tessellations, drawings and woodcuts. These creations can not exist in reality because they defy the laws of physics. I am sure that you would recognise the art if you saw it. Escher was [...]

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It would seem that we here at The Geek have a love hate relationship with Clippy, that irritating office assistant care of Microsoft. So this week I have found for you a take on Clippy in the [...]

Google recently failed to secure the “Gmail” name in a few European countries, this time they have lost again and once more it is Europe. Copyright is the issue this time, it has to do with the fact that Google reproduces news from other sources on it’s own pages.
I just had to talk about this [...]

Remember last week The Global Geek Podcast Widget was created by Tim King of +grooveARMY? Well Tim has been very busy, just launched today is a widget that covers the whole of TPN! Never miss another show again.
The major difference with this particular widget is that it only does podcasts on The Podcast Network. That [...]

This week we look at what might be behind Steve Job’s statements about DRM, why you may not be able to cross the street and listen to your iPod in New York.
Also spam filtering gets divine intervention. We find the “anti-bork” remedy for the iTunes - Vista incompatibility issue, how to make yourself truly invisible [...]

Here is This Week’s “Post From the Paladin” (AKA Knightwise)
Why does Steve want to let go of DRM?
As the resident pessimist of the Global Geek Podcast, I was truly surprised at the announcement of Steve Jobs yesterday, saying that Apple would be more than happy to drop DRM if the music industry would agree. I [...]

Believe me when I say that I am not looking for these articles. However, today I have found another article that references the removal of the Top Digg Users list from the service. This time the article suggests that the removal of the list has taken the incentive away from users to participate in the [...]

This is huge news. Tim King of +grooveARMY has created something for us here at the Global Geek. This time it is not only something for us but for you. He has created The Global Geek Podcast Widget!
Our widget utilizes our RSS feed to bring our content right to your desktop. Just click a story [...]

As listeners from the last show would know Odeo has let us down in a big way. I might have found an alternative. So before I have to use it when it counts I thought we might give it a try here. The service is MyChingo they offer a range of services but their main [...]

In this weeks show (#037) we mentioned that Digg had removed the top Diggers list. It took but days for Christopher Finke to create the list on an independent site.
The list of Digg’s Top 100 Diggers is updated twice a day. The reason for the creation:
“This list is kept available for no other reason than [...]