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Geektastic Links for January 19th, 2009

8 Year Old Becomes World’s Youngest IT Professional! - When I was his age I was playing with GI Joes and fighting with my brothers over who got to play the next game of Mega Man. What a show off.

First Peek into Warehouse 13 -- The SciFi Channel’s new original series, to debut in July 2009, has a 2 minute preview video online. Considering the talent on the project — Jane Espenson (Buffy and BSG) and Rockne S. O’ Bannon (Farscape, Alien Nation) — I found this scene severely lacking. Anybody else underwhelmed by this clip?

US General Starts Blogging, Despite Security Fears - Fears over what? A commander who leads 19,000 soldiers communicating with his troops?

FarmBot Exoskeleton Helps You Pick Radishes -- The latest in Japan’s saga to replace it’s aging workforce is a new robotic power suit to help elderly farmers do some heavy lifting…

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  1. eksith says:

    I remember an episode of StarTrek TNG where a kid (looked about 7 or 8) was running away from his Calculus homework.
    Looks like they got the learning speed a bit off. By then, I’m sure we’ll have teenagers in the captain’s chair.

    Wearhouse 13… Needs Robert Picardo (a la Voyager and Stargate Atlantis) or I can’t be bothered.

    Blogging… Is communism!
    Your voice can’t equal to anyone else!!!

    Forget exoskeletons, I need my VF-1 Valkyrie now, damnit!

  2. eksith says:

    *oops.. The sunglass smiley was actually 8 followed by ‘)’

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