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Ewoks FTW! I am speachless on this one. check it out.

(jeff)isageek geeky ewoks, return of the jedi, star wars

Here is a reminder to all you geeks out there that this Saturday – May 3rd is the annual Free Comic Book Day.

Make sure you visit your favorite local comic book store and get some freebies while letting them know you appreciate their great shops.

If you are in my area (Johnson County in Kansas) here are a few participating stores you can check out.

(jeff)isageek geeky comic books, free comic book day

Very kool mashup of the 89′ Batman and 08′ Dark Knight Trailers. I cannot wait to see the new batman movie! Enjoy.

(jeff)isageek geeky, video batman, dark knight, trailer

image from ravenhawk

Are you in the Kansas City area? Do you blog, do you podcast? Are you always updating your twitter account? Besides finding kool new blogs, sites, people on the net I always enjoy finding out whats going on in the blogosphere here in the Kansas City area my hometown.

If you are fall into one of these categories leave a comment and let others know what you are doing. Give a little info like your name, site/twitter address, maybe what you like to blog/podcast/twitter about….or maybe you are just looking for some new local blogs/podcasts/geeks then check the comments out and maybe you will find a new favorite.

Let Kansas City and the world know you are out there.

(jeff)isageek web/tech blogging, kansas city, podcasting, twitter

Movie Tagline : “It all started when i Googled my name.”

This weekend I found a kool movie having to do with a guy who decided do what we all do and that is “google” our own name. The only difference is that then he made a movie about it. His Name is Jim Killeen and as I am sure you probably guess he sets out to meet other Jim Killeen’s around the world. To document his travels and experiences he made “Google Me : The Movie”

I thought this was a great movie that can be enjoyed by really anyone…you dont need to be a geeky tech type. its more of a story about people with of course technology being a driving force.

(jeff)isageek web/tech google me, jim killeen

Hey Everyone….over the weekend I was thinking I would like to increase my knowledge of MySQL since I use it for my blog and would like to see what else I can do with it. I have a running knowledge of the open source database but would like to take it to the next level

So that is where you come in. do you use MySQL? What are some good resources I can dig into? blogs, forums, books? whatever the case may be….I am just looking for the places to get some great info.

Thanks Everyone!

(jeff)isageek web/tech database, mysql, open source

A new little service I have been using since it launched a few months ago is Ping.fm which if you are not familiar lets you send out messages/status messages to a multitude of services including everything from twitter and pownce to facebook and myspace and it seems to be growing every day.

Overall its a super simple service that doesn’t do a bunch of everything but it does what it does very nicely by either the site itself, a mobile verison, or a secret email address that is provided to you if you wanna send from your favorite email client.

I myself use it from time to time to update to twitter, myspace, jaiku, and pownce all at one time.  have a link in your post…no problem the service will make the url tiny to help keep the number of characters down and for any of you on twitter you know how important that is

A couple of notes about the service it is currently in beta but use the invite code “pingfriends” and you are in..and also the guys over at the service right now are planning to throw everyone who follows them on twitter before may 1st in a drawing for a free iPod Touch…so make sure you sign up for that!

(jeff)isageek web/tech ping.fm

I was doing my normal daily surfing of the interweb and I came across a pretty kool service that helps kids that are a little less fortunate as some of us geeks by providing them schwag from around the web and all the geek conferences that go on year round.

Schwaggin Wagon as it is called recently rented a van, decided on a charity to help out which is InnerKids, and is debuting this week at the Web 2.0 Expo (good place to start as I am sure there is a lot of schwag to grab there.

I think this is a great service and a great way for us geeks to give back to the community so others can show off their geek pride.  So make sure you visit the Schwaggin Wagon at a conference soon or check them out as they are on twitter, facebook, and of course the site itself.

(jeff)isageek geeky, web/tech charity, geeks, innerkids, schwag, schwaggin wagon

This is awsome….take a crap load of bottles and an RC car…..what does that give you? A way to play the theme to Mario. This is just one of those hella kool videos you find….or atleast I think so

http://view.break.com/487616 – Watch more free videos

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(jeff)isageek geeky mario, mario brothers, mario theme

Found this new site called Dipity which allows you to take all your favorite social service like twitter, flickr, your blog, last.fm, any rss feed you can think of and creates a timeline for ya. Obviously you have a page so you can share with your friends and the world so they can follow you.

Is it something I am gonna use daily like I do twitter or friendfeed I doubt it at this time…but hey for all us “social web” fans its another site to mess around with.

(jeff)isageek web/tech dipity, social web