Andrew Mager

Monthly Archives: February 2007

Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

I’m not. I had trouble with the first three questions, just like the contestant.
This is probably my new favorite show. I will watch it tomorrow and Thursday.
Here is a teaser:

You should watch it.

Beer-Launching Fridge

This video speaks for itself:

It was also built by a Dukie.

FreeTube, The Real Cable Internet

YouTube is awesome. Anyone can create their own television station with a few clicks and a palette of patience. Time Magazine even named it “Invention of the Year” in 2006. Google gave up $1.6 billion of its shares to acquire it!
Well, if you are sick of personal video publishing, or just want to watch some […]

MC Escher in Lego

I came across this on digg yesterday, and I had to post something about it.

You can read the comments here.

Did You Mean Google?

Google’s homepage art today has a chocolate-covered strawberry for a lowercase g, and it kinda looks like it spells “Googe”. Did Google mean to do this?

Further research reveals that there was a 16th Century poet named Barnabe Googe, and one of his most famous one-liners was, “I did but see her passing by, and yet […]

Happy Birthday Darwin

The original naturalist, Chuck Darwin convinced the scientific community that species develop over time from a common origin.
Look how far we have come…

There really isn’t much I can say about him, so I will offer you his Wikipedia article.