Reaction to updating the full-size iPad was swift and, in a phenomenon seen only in geekdom, actually angry.

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If President Barack Obama were President of Geekdom, rather than president of the United States, we would demand his resignation.

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He was a painter, an inventor, a scientist, a mathematician, a writer, and one of the patron saints of geekdom.

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Most interesting, I learned that many science fiction readers are Rationals in the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, which tells me that geekdom is as innate as left-handedness.

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Pushing air cooling to its limits might mean buying a bigger fan to the mortal PC builder, but for Mike at Total Geekdom, it meant constructing a wind tunnel case.

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With the passing of stamp and butterfly collecting into the obscurest realms of irredeemable geekdom, accumulating (and drinking) rare, unusual and generally very old whiskies has emerged as one of the more surprising--if less than headline-generating--trends of the 21st century.

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