Category: Geek Culture

There’s a lot of comic book heroes and adventures being developed in the TV shows that will air over the next two years. We already have “Arrow,” which is based on DC Comics “Green Arrow,” and this year they’re adding “The Flash,” produced by the same creators and developers of Arrow.

Other companies are developing properties such as Luke Cage, Daredevil, the Defenders, and another comic book “hero,” and yes, I put that in quotes, because he isn’t exactly a clean-cut superhero, and that is Constantine. It’s a little harder core that most of the other comic book adventures will be, after all, a hero that has demon’s blood in his veins and uses dark magic to pursue those that he goes after, can’t be considered exactly a “good guy.”

And, based on all the interest in zombies in recent years, the CW is bringing “i-Zombie” out which will be about a med student turned zombie who takes a job in the coroner’s office to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat to “live.” And I used “live” in the broadest sense!

There is also a project called “Powers” where we have two police detectives living in a world where there are superheroes and super villains. Needless to say this is one I’m going to have to check out before I commit to watch it!

Also, they are working on a “Supergirl” one hour TV show. I am looking forward to that one!

So, we’re going from only a few comic book-based stories to quite a few, however, that’s usually the way it works as things become successful they start having imitators of that success. At least that’s what they hope!

Hamster Wheel Standing Desk

Now you can build your own hamster wheel standing desk. Yeah. And the psychology of reminding yourself that you are “on a treadmill” while at work. Priceless.

Mark your calendars!

Krispy Kreme is getting in on Talk Like a Pirate Day again this year with a tasty grub giveaway. On September 19, any buccaneer who dares to enter a participating Krispy Kreme location talking like a pirate gets one free Original Glazed doughnut.

To the lad or lass wearing full pirate attire goes a bounty of one free dozen Original Glazed doughnuts.

To claim their loot on September 19, guests must:

· Talk like a pirate or wear an eye patch to a participating Krispy Kreme shop for one free Original Glazed doughnut.

· Come to a participating Krispy Kreme location in full pirate costume for one free dozen Original Glazed doughnuts. No weapons allowed!

Arrrr!

As you know, on the Internet cats are lauded and there are tons of videos, photos, etc. of cats. In Internet lingo “kittehs” (sic). By the way, for those of you from Rio Linda, “sic” means I MEANT to type it that way! Anyway, then there is also the ancient computer hacker pastime of “War Driving,” that is, driving through a community with equipment to find open WiFi signals, and soundly mocking the idiots that have open WiFi (or, other more nefarious pastimes, once they are found… but I digress!

Anyway, combine the two, and you have a “War-Kitteh!” this was one of the many reports on the “War-Kitteh” this week:

Coco the cat can hack your WiFi network with his WarKitteh collar

Geek – By: Lee Matthews “Your cat probably does some pretty awesome, YouTube-worthy tricks. Chances are, however, that your cat isn’t quite the geeky little feline that Coco is. Coco, you see, can hack WiFi networks.

Not on his own, mind you. Coco’s got a special collar that was whipped up by security researcher Gene Bransfield. Now, most professionals who want to “research” the security of the WiFi connections in their neighborhoods will do a bit of wardriving or rig up a drone to do a little sniffing around. Bransfield thought that enlisting the aid of a cat would be both hilarious and fun.

He spent hours upon hours creating WarKitteh, a fur-wrapped collar that’s wired for WiFi reconnaissance. It’s not a clunky, cat-strangling hack either. Bransfield’s contraption is a little thick due to the electronics and battery, but only about as wide and long as an ordinary cat collar. It’s built around a GPS-enabled pet collar like the GeoDog and equipped with the Arduino-firendly Spark WiFi module.
While Bransfield has all the electronic and coding skills required to whip up WarKitteh himself, he needed a bit of help from a kindly neighbor lady to finish the collar off. Once the leopard print sleeve was sewn, he was ready to slip it on to a cat and see just how secure his neighbor’s WiFi networks really were.

His first feline operative, Skitzy, turned out to be a little too laid back to be of much use. Bransfield called for back-up, and Coco answered. On his first tour of the area, Coco and WarKitteh sniffed out 23 WiFi networks. Amazingly, a third of them were using horribly outdated, insecure WEP encryption.

Bransfield is hopeful that his project will increase awareness and convince people that it’s time to pay more attention to the security of their home networks. Sadly, I’m inclined to think that the vast majority of Internet users would be far more interested in the bouncing cat icon on his WarKitteh map than the fact that someone figured out how to turn a cat with a collar into a network hacker’s tool.”

Bill Gates and I are almost exactly the same age, well, within a month. He was born on October 28, 1955, I was born November 30, 1955. And yes, he is richer than me. [by a lot!] But, it was really nice to see him get “iced” for charity! Hee-hee!

According to the ALS Association, the Ice Bucket Challenge has raised $9.5 million dollars for ALS research.

Well, big news for all you science fiction fans out there! Rumor has it that Babylon 5 will become a major motion picture. J. Michael Straczynski (JMS himself!) made the announcement at San Diego’s comic con last week. The Babylon 5 pilot episode aired in 1993, and now it may be coming out as a motion picture!

This will probably be a reboot of the franchise since most of its starring cast have aged out of the roles that they played. Also several of the foundational cast members: Michael O’Hare, Andreas Katsulas, Richard Biggs, and Jeff Conaway, have passed away.

It was noted that series star Bruce Boxleitner may play the President of the Earth Alliance on this reboot, however which President of the Alliance he plays is still up in the air.

DEWD! I can hardly wait, I am a big Babylon 5 fan!

Well, it hit the InterWebs anyway. We do not condone pirating here at Dr. Bill.TV, but it MAY be that the CW intentionally leaked the pilot of their new Flash TV show just to create a “buzz” in the Geek Community! So, torrent at your own risk… but it DOES seem to be out there. Hummmmm… best publicity stunt ever, or just somebody nicked it? Who knows!?!?

One things for sure, as big of a Flash fan as I have always been, I will DEFINITELY be watching the CW this Fall! Dewd! Please, please, please let them do a really good job with it! also, I love the cross-over value with “Arrow,” which I also never miss! Just sayin’!

Because… why not!? You can’t get any more Geek Culture than a Steampunk Cat! Dewd!

It looks a bit like my cat, Tiger, but she’s really NOT into steampunk. Just sayin’!