Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'geek'
February 23, 2007
It was curtains in Orange County last night as FOX’s golden child threw its final punch. After four years in The O.C., creator Josh Schwartz has taught us that money can’t buy happiness, but it sure does buy a Range Rover full of jaw-dropping plot twists. At a time when television was dominated by Who Wants to Survive My Geek Super Nanny and other such reality gems, those lovable but not infallible kids from Newport......
Continue Reading "In Like A Lion, Out Like A Lamb: The O.C. Takes A Bow"December 5, 2006
MIT's Media Laboratory is getting a lot of press these days with their One Laptop Per Child research program that hopes to revolutionize the Third World with $100 laptops in schools. While Canada boasts being one of the world's leading wired nations, there are still many underprivileged kids in Toronto who don't have easy access to a computer of their own, further widening the gap of opportunity. Journalist and tech guru Andy Walker (author......
Continue Reading "Nerd Alert: Little Geeks Need Old Computers"August 13, 2006
God, we're so sick of Snakes on a Plane that we want to kill anyone and everyone that makes a "something on a something" joke. But then we realized that there was no way we could ever win this fight, and, hell, if you can't beat them, we might as well join them. And with that, you have the theme of this weeks' Gothamist network post. Austinist makes it easy for us, with Candidate......
Continue Reading "Elsewhere in the Ist-A-Verse"