Proven Links

Boston Police Arrest Two Pokémon Players After Apparent Gun Threat Against World Championships. Welp, this is absolutely terrifying. A couple of psychos were arrested after they started threatening people at the World Pokemon Championships. The cops found a couple guns and a butt-load (scientific term) of ammo in their car.

Seriously, if you're not safe at the World Pokemon Championships you're not safe anywhere.

Twitter shuts down 30 sites dedicated to saving politicians' deleted tweets. Aw man, this can't come at a worse time. Have you seen the field of candidates running for president? Luckily for us what twitter has done here just makes it a little bit harder to save those tweets. With the amount of attention politicians are getting on twitter these days there's almost zero possibility of you missing the next time Trump or Cruz says something insane.

The Windows Start menu saga, from 1993 to today. Wow, I remember when Windows 95 went by the code name Chicago. I think it came on like 12 3.25' floppies. I wonder how much I could get for them on eBay if I still had them. 3 maybe 4 dollars?

Every Carrier's Confusing Phone-Buying Plans, Explained. It's been a few years since I've actually been inside an AT&T store to buy a phone. My wife breaks her phone so often we've been buying her go phones (the AT&T windows go-phone is actually pretty nice) and I've had the same sorry Nokia Lumia for at least 3 years. Recently I've scratched the lens on the camera and I've been thinking about getting a new one but holy crap, buying a new phone sounds like the biggest cluster-F ever.

The Cheerleader Effect Has Been Proven By Science. Wow, this was written by the most bro-iest bro ever. I'm surprised my computer didn't try to fist bump me when I was done with the article. Still, science says women are hotter when they travel in packs. It's science, are you going to argue with science?

These Windows go all the way up to 11 10

Yesterday Microsoft made the official announcement on it's newest operating system, Windows 10. What happened to Windows 9? Windows 9 is for suckers... that's what happened.

Windows 10 seems like Microsoft's best push at unifying your PC, tablet and phone. Windows 8 had a lot of mobile functionality built in but users BITCHED AND COMPLAINED to death over live tiles replacing the start menu. Windows 10 brings back the start menu and integrates the shit out of live tiles INTO the menu and it still has the option of switching to a more "Metro" style interface if you're using a tablet. Its been pretty well received and it sounds like what they should have done with Windows 8 in the first place.

There are more superficial style improvements like enhanced smart sizing and window snapping. Better search tools more intuitive swipe commands, blah blah blah. In my opinion the big promise here is that Microsoft is promising Universal Apps (patent pending I'm sure). Applications that will work and integrate with phone, tablet and PC. Lately I've been thinking about bailing on Windows Phone, the biggest reason outside of battery life is a lack of apps. If Microsoft can really deliver on expanding what's available on phone and mobile by having them automatically port from the PC we might be back in business.

I've been eyeing a solid state hard drive upgrade for my home computron and was contemplating an upgrade to Windows 8.1. After yesterday I'm definitely going to wait until 2015 so I can step right into Windows 10.

Also what is up with Capt. Microsoft's hair. He's a grown man with a Justin Bieber haircut, who lets him leave the house looking like that?

Try Making a Computer that Suits You!

I'm not 100% sure what this actually is but I'm 100% sure that I love it.

Grey Tuesday Links

‘Windows 95 Tips’ Documents The Horror Of ’90s Computing As We Remember It. I think they're stretching the truth here with their "as we remember it" claim. I remember beta testing Win 95 (code name Chicago!) and I don't remember it stealing my DNA for it's nefarious cloning experiments... or do we I?

The Most Ridiculously Expensive Factory Car Options. $50,000 for spec-V brakes on a GT-R? That's more than half the base price. Who buys a super car go stop anyway? You buy one to go fast... and to compensate for your small penis.

Restaurant Review: Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar in Times Square. This is a couple weeks old by now, but in case you haven't read it, you have to check it out. It's a brutal take down of Guy Fieri's new restaurant in Times Square. Couldn't have happened to a nicer douche.

What Skyrim Looks like with over 100 graphic mods. Uber gamer/nerd Unreal has posted a boat load of Skyrim screen shots using a wide array of graphic mods. The results are absolutely stunning, and hard it's hard to fathom that these were rendered in real time, even if at times the game was running under 5 fps. Well worth checking out if you're interested in the future of Computer graphics.

Samsung's Transparent Smart Window is witchcraft

Watch this video and tell me Samsung's Transparent Window is not powered by the devil himself. I can't believe this kind of technology exists. Seriously, transparent computer screens? Why not just fire up the old flux capacitor and fly around on a hoverboard for a while.

The Death Star was my Idea

I like these Star Wars Windows 7 parodies because in a weird way they completely dismiss Episodes 1-3. I mean The Death Star was already being built at the end of Revenge of the Sith, how could a Storm Trooper have had the idea first? Only in an awesome alternate reality where George Lucas died in the 90s.

Funny Pics from the Nerdery Folder

I'm on vacation so I'm half assing it this week. dale with it.