A recent Washington Post article, written by Cleve Wootson, highlighted the swearing in ceremony of Lan Diep. Diep donned his replica Captain America shield as he took his oath of office as a member of San Jose’s City Council. This true nerd and collector of all the nerdy things stated that “There are few opportunities
“All right, everybody, what do we all want to find under the Christmas tree?” “MONEY!” “Okay, yes, that would be nice, but what ELSE do we want?” “GIFT CERTIFICATES!” “Well that kind of falls into the money category, come on, there’s something else…” “BOOZE?” “Oh for crying out loud…GEEKY CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.” In the spirit of
Don’t know a thing about football? Invited to a party to watch The Big Game? Don’t worry, I’ll give you enough information here to carry on a conversation. Let’s face it, even people who never watch football tune in to watch The Big Game, even though we might only be interested in the commercials or
Christmas is drawing near and those of us who didn’t do ALL of our holiday shopping on Black Friday and Cyber Monday may still be looking for gift ideas for others, and of course ourselves. From Treks to Wars, Rings to Thrones, and Bats to Spiders we’ve found some of the coolest geeky gift ideas
The Sandy Hook school shootings may have triggered a storm of political fervor for gun control laws, but there are those who are determined to distract us with tried-and-true diversions – most notably, blaming everything except for the ability to take human life. It began, once again, with NRA head Wayne LaPierre’s by-now infamous statement
We don’t want to live in a world of censorship. We don’t want people to tell us what we can and cannot say. We don’t want a government so afraid of its people that it threatens to restrict their voices. If I can buy a shotgun in Walmart I sure as hell want to be
The Stop Online Piracy Act is a bill before Congress that could very well affect every internet user in one form or the other. Its primary purpose is to prevent the spread and use of pirated, aka stolen or illegal, material across the web. However, the methods for doing so are proving to be more
April fools everybody! Wow, we sure had you going didn’t we? Iknow that the ‘new look’ was sleek, shiny, difficult to navigate around, and … white, but it just wasn’t us. Why would we want to look just like our competitors, especially when we already look awesome? Never you worry loyal readers, the Pixelated Geek
The long wait is finally over. Pixelated Geek is, after much anticipation, proud to present our new layout, Pixelated Geek 5.0! We’ve been talking to our Marketing and Design Consultants and after much deliberation have discovered how to maximize our geeky awesome-ness to better provide you, our wonderful audience, with even more articles, videos, exclusives,