<![CDATA[Gizmodo: geekery]]> http://tags.gizmodo.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Gizmodo: geekery]]> http://gizmodo.com/tag/geekery http://gizmodo.com/tag/geekery <![CDATA[The One Thing David Pogue and Unlimited Lives in Contra Have in Common]]> The Konami code is a secret branding, a geek stigmata—all it takes is that one brief flash, and you're immediately recognized as one of US. Is it any surprise then, that if you enter that hallowed sequence on DP's new Pogue-o-Matic gadget finder, you get to watch him do a special trick?

Just type in the magic words (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, enter) on the front page, and you will be rewarded. But as Adam points out, an additional 30 seconds of Pogue hamming it up might not juice you the same way as unlimited lives in Contra did back in the day, but our hats are off to you David Pogue, as well as the NYT code monkeys that dreamed this up. [Pogue-O-Matic]

]]> http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5100942&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Geek License Plates Show Just How Geeky the Road Can Get (Very)]]> While this is by far our favorite geek vanity plate, we don't pretend that others don't exist. And frankly, if I pulled up behind someone repping a wireless radio standard for all to see on the back of their Hyundai, I think there's a great chance I might spit-take my Big Gulp and risk a rear impact collison. And that's not the only one—Pingdom's blog has a great roundup of geek flags flying high and hard on back bumpers around the world.

Yes, we've got repping of yet another networking standard, one for the Windows keyboard-shortcut devotees, and of course, the social-powered, traffic firehose cycle. Hit Pingdom for many, many more. [Pingdom - Thanks, Peter!]

]]> http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5041455&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[How Geeky Are You Quiz!]]> Oh, Newsweek, always on the cutting edge! Your "How geeky are you?" quiz in the latest issue did make us tittle, but here are some questions you missed after the jump.

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Anything else all of you kind readers can think of? [Thanks, Peter]

Quiz [Newsweek]

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