The Concord Monitor

A special spot for geeks Website lets you find one of your very own
By MELANIE ASMAR Monitor staff
January 20. 2008 12:46AM
Maybe it was Napoleon Dynamite. Or the newfound trendiness of gadgets like the iPhone. Or the resurgences of horn-rimmed glasses and superheroes. Whatever the reason, geeks are hot right now. Enter SweetonGeeks.com, a dating website for the sincerely geeky. Started a year and a half ago by James Crosby and Joyce Dales, siblings who live on Pawtuckaway Lake in Nottingham, along with Dales's husband, Jeff, SweetonGeeks now boasts more than 8,000 members in 60 countries. Most of them are geeks. (Some are geekophiles, or geek appreciators.) There's a shy pianist and a guy who once stayed up all night listening to the Star Wars score and reciting the lines from memory. One geek describes himself in his profile as "a carbon-based life form." Another lists her favorite things as her cat and her sword collection. References to sci-fi hit Battlestar Galactica are common. READ MORE

Gadget geeks go green
5:00AM Sunday January 13, 2008
By Peter Griffin

There was enough new technology unveiled at the CES technology showcase in Las Vegas l
ast week to make gadget geeks green with envy.

Funnily enough, the major selling point of some of the new gadgets is that they too are green.

If the firestorm of environmental advocacy set off by Al Gore and his clever Powerpoint (actually it
was made in Keynote, the Powerpoint rival of Apple, of which Gore is a board member) presentation
has shaken the energy industry to its core, it's also having a remarkable impact on the consumer electronics industry.

For years, the makers of TVs, DVD players, projectors and home theatre systems have fallen over
themselves to pack more features into their products, make them smaller, lighter, easier to use, more
impressive to look at and listen to.


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