Geek in Heels - Page 240

Graphic artist Raphael Phillips has combined the beloved Mega Man with my favorite childhood toy: Lego. The imagining of these two fantastically geeky worlds can be seen over at The 8-bit Cubist, where Phillips not only depicts the original Mega Man particularly well (and instantly recognizable), Mega Man's various powers are also beautifully rendered. I would definitely be tempted to pick up the set if it were to exist in real life. What about you? Via Kotaku. ...

Geek, Marketing/Advertising, Web

Captcha Advertisements: Brilliantly Evil

Sep 21. 2010

I hate Captcha systems and find them extremely irritating. It's not only the act of having to type out the characters on screen, but the fact that deciphering some Captcha systems can be immensely difficult makes me feel less of a human somehow. (Because you know, the whole point of having Captcha systems in place is to weed out the bots.) Enter Solve Media, a start-up based in New York. Solve has decided that Capcha systems are not annoying enough on their own — they must be supplemented by another major annoyance of the web: online ads. As Solve sees it, their new Captcha advertisements will not only benefit advertisers by forcing visitors to look at — and comprehend — the ad, but will...

Personal, Pregnancy

So I Guess This Is My Version of a Birth Plan…

Sep 21. 2010

I never intended on writing out a birth plan. I know some women go all-out and prepare pages-long documents full of their wishes, desires, and "what-if" scenarios regarding the birth of their children (one doctor friend even told me about a birth plan that filled an entire binder, complete with a table of contents), but I know that ANYTHING can happen during birth. And by my meticulously writing out a birth plan — keeping my type-A personality in mind — I will most likely become upset if everything doesn't go as I intended. As such, I have been reading and researching and have a very loose, general idea of what I would PREFER, but I do not have anything set...

Beauty, Books, Geek, Wishlist

Perfume That Smells Like a Library

Sep 20. 2010

Once again I am forced to wonder why anyone hasn't thought of this before. Brooklyn perfumery I Hate Perfume has released a scent called "In the Library" that is inspired by the smells of libraries and books. According to perfumer Christopher Brosius, "these scents mean Excitement, Adventure, Discovery, Enlightenment and Knowledge." Brosius further explains on the product page: Whenever I read, the start of the journey is always opening the book and breathing deeply. There are few things more wonderful than the smell of a much-loved book. Newly printed books certainly smell very different from older ones. Their ink is so crisp though the odor of their paper is so faint. Older books smell riper and often sweeter. Illustrated books have a very different odor from...