So here at Zaphu, we didn’t get the bailout that we were expecting after seeing all the money that everyone else was getting, but we decided to take a company retreat anyway. Of course, instead of golden toilets we had the backs of Oak trees and instead of 2,000,000 thread count sheets we had [...]

Since the Oscars are just around the corner, I thought we’d nerd it up a little before everyone starts thanking all the writers, their parents, the writers, their spouses, the writers, etc. I’ve tried to compile a list of movies that every self-respecting Nerd should see. While there are a lot of great [...]

I’d been looking for a good iPod alarm clock / speaker combo for awhile. Unfortunately, I hated most of the ones you’d see in Wal-mart or Target. I knew I wanted something with good sound and a functional, attractive design. Multiple alarms and a nice remote were also an important [...]

eMusic offers more than 2,000,000 tracks from more than 13,000 labels. DRM free, mind you, and at high quality 192K VBR MP3 format. Not to mention every conceivable genre you can come up with (ambient trip-hop country?) Well, maybe not. Keep reading and find out what eMusic is about, what [...]

As a graduate student, I’ve learned to live on my meager stipend. As a result, I have become a miserly young man even Scrooge McDuck would be proud of. But since I don’t have a money bin to swim around in, my tight-wadded-ness is more a point of necessity then preference. I can easily spend [...]

“A Short History of Nearly Everything” by Bill Bryson: Bill Bryson is one of my favorite authors, known for his illuminating personal narratives of journeys to such places as the Australian Outback and Appalachia. “A Short History of Nearly Everything” is an equally enlightening sojourn through the history of scientific inquiry, knowledge, and discovery. This [...]

The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress: The complexity of the emerging global economy is staggering and the evolution of science and technology is ever accelerating. In “The Future and Its Enemies”, Virginia Postrel argues that individuals can be classified as stasists or dynamists depending on their reactions to [...]