Natalia Pogonina is a grandmaster chess player. At only 25 years old, she has attained a FIDE rate of over 2500. That puts her up with the top male competitors. She is a three time European champion and is a member of the Russian Olympic Chess Team. Check out her website here.

Here are a few vids of people putting non-food items in microwaves. I’m gonna have to try some of these. First off is Ivory soap in a microwave. Oh, yeah, and make sure and watch the vids all the way through. This is what happens when you put a sonic boom firework in the microwave. [...]

This reminds me of God of War but still, it’s definitely worth a look.

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Found that perfect vid on YouTube? Wished there was an easy way to keep it? Well, there is. Simply replace the “Y” in the URL of the YouTube vid you want to keep, with a “3″, and BLAM! A screen will come up giving you a download choice to download in a MP4 or FLV [...]

Saturday nights, L.A., club Bordello becomes club Mos Eisley. Oh yeah, baby. via LAWeekly.com

OK, here’s how we’re gonna work this. In the comments, leave a message about the gifts you are getting for that special geek in your life. If you can, leave a link to a picture or write up about the item. Merry Christmas, Geeks!

The geeks at the University of Antwerp’s Vision Lab have put together a desktop supercomputer for right around €6000. It utilizes 13 GPU’s, a little Linux, and a custom BIOS. From the FASTRAII website: Although the system is up and running, we are still experiencing software stability issues, probably caused by an incompatibility between the video [...]

Lets face it, if you find these jokes as funny as I do, then you are most definitely a geek. Here, science comedian Brian Malow jokes that a virus is “the ultimate David and Goliath” when compared with humans. He then rattles off a series of science-related jokes. “Schrodinger’s cat walks into a bar, and [...]

This is all that needs be said about the beauty of being a geek. By the way, if you don’t see the business card, ask your wife to point it out to you.