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THE next time you want to bag the bonk of your life, you need a partner who knows a lot about your hardware. While computer nerds are obviously good at IT, what we didn't realise is that they're good at "it" too. An anonymous study of 2,000 British men and women concluded that out of all jobs, computer geeks make the best lovers. They were found to be the most selfless in the sack, the most adventurous and more likely to use love gadgets. Seventy-eight per cent of techies that were questioned also claimed that sex toys were part of...

BEWARE of geeks bearing formulas. That's the lesson most of us have learned from the financial crisis. The "quants" who devised the risk models that induced so many financial institutions to buy mortgage-backed securities thought they had reduced risk down to zero. Turns out they got a few things wrong. Their formulas were based on only a few years of actual data. Or they failed to take into account the possibility that housing prices would fall. Or that the market for mortgage-backed securities might suddenly stop functioning. The lesson seems clear. Don't allow a whole system to become hostage to...

Michael Jackson is setting out on a concert tour after a twelve year hiatus. Nothing unusual about that...until you take a look at who's helping him put the tour together! NOTE: The author of this comic requests that you visit his web site and please refrain from copying the cartoon within this thread! Thank you very much!

A new study connects young adults' use of video games to poorer relationships with friends and family – and the student co-author expresses disappointment at his own findings. Brigham Young University undergrad Alex Jensen and his faculty mentor, Laura Walker, publish their results Jan. 23 in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence. The research is based on information collected from 813 college students around the country. As the amount of time playing video games went up, the quality of relationships with peers and parents went down. "It may be that young adults remove themselves from important social settings to play...

This comic pretty much sums up the attitude of the author with regard to the "do nothing" congress. Yep, it's time for another slam on democrats by "Geeks On Caffeine." Note: The author has requested that you visit the web site and that you refrain from copying and pasting the strip into the body of this thread. Thanks!

Aren't all of those tech gadgets great? PDA's, cell phones, laptops and so on have all had a beneficial impact on our lives. However, not ALL innovations have this effect! See for yourself in this latest installment of "Geeks On Caffeine!"

Confused by the title? Confused by the concept of a "man" giving birth? Confused in general about how society let this nonsense happen? Well, you're never going to be as confused as the baby boy of the pregnant "man"! See why in this cartoon from "Geeks On Caffeine."

Heard about the pregnant "dude" on Oprah? Well he's in "Geeks On Caffeine" and...uh...well, the title of this post pretty much says it all. Further evidence of the decline of Western civilization? A sign of the apocalypse? Or just another story about a nutbag that expects the rest of the world to buy into personal delusion? YOU MAKE THE CALL!!

A business owner has to worry about many "groups" with a social agenda. After coffee shop owner Joe Black had a run-in with the Transsexual Mafia, the next group with a social bone to pick made its presence known!

You don't know where it will happen. You don't know when it will happen. You don't know who it will happen to. But if you own a business or believe in conservative societal norms, at some point you will feel the impact when the TRANSSEXUAL MAFIA STRIKES!!!!

Purchasing a pistol with your stimulus package money is foolish if you consider that for the same money...

Has anyone pondered the best way to spend your inbound stimulus package checks? "Geeks On Caffeine" shows us all why it's best to keep the money in the good 'ol U.S. of A.!

Okay, a question for you techies out there. I just renewed my Norton Anti-virus system and the renewal for my SpySweeper is coming up as well. Is it necessary to have SpySweeper also? If Norton Anti-Virus is sufficient then it doesn't make sense to renew SpySweeper. Some have said they might even be interfering with each other. So to renew or not to renew SpySweeper? That is the question.

My wife just got a Windows automatic update for Windows Vista. The problem is that her machine is running XP.She tried to reject the update but the machine automatically re-started and now she's getting messages like "No operating system found". We're both just users with not a clue of what to do.

I am changing my email address and want to change it on the blackberry however the manual does not cover very well deleting or renaming email to the unit.

There hasn't been a wedding like it for quite some time. About seven centuries, in fact. The bride arrived riding side saddle on a white mare in a dress made from 270 feet of silk. And waiting for her was her knight in shining armour - £10,000 of hand-forged steel trimmed with brass and velvet. The scene was the wedding of Sian Jenkins and Rupert Hammerton - Fraser, who are so fascinated by the Middle Ages that they recreated a medieval ceremony down to the minutest detail - the bride even promised to be bonny and buxom in bed, a...

Thanks to the techno geeks at FR our family after much thought are a happy owner of a 60 in HDTV Wega. The Wega is in tandem with two other tv screen one of which I am wireless posting. So really happy and it was a whole lot of work on my behalf but the crew of techno geeks helped sort out the salesmen pitches. So NOW I want new advice. Since King Vanity and I are more home bound and I am working around from shift to shift and with his needs I can't get out to do a...

California continues to employ far more technology workers, pay higher wages and attract more venture capital than any other state. But the overall U.S. tech sector is also growing at a surprisingly brisk clip - for now. That's the conclusion of a highly anticipated annual report by AeA, formerly the American Electronics Association, the country's largest technology trade association. Researchers relied on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, mostly from 2006. According to the 2007 "Cyberstates" report, to be published Tuesday, the U.S. tech industry employed 5.8 million people last year - up 2.6 percent from 2005. The...

Thanks to The Board of Wisdom for lifting the day after Christmas doldrums with the Top 10 geeky sayings. 1. There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't. 2.If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0. 3. Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips." 4. My pokemon bring all the nerds to the yard, and they're like you wanna trade cards? Darn right, I wanna trade cards, I'll trade this but not my charizard. 5. 1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d. 6. I'm...

A spectre is haunting the Internet -- the spectre of Digital Re-education. All the powers of the old Tech have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Microsoft, Public Education, Labor Unions, The Major Telecoms, Dial-Up… The history of all hitherto existing Social Networks is the history of lowbrow genius and vis-à-vis GUI sub-systems.