Barbecue and Broadband: Kansas City Gets Google Fiber

The vast majority of us in Washington State have Comcast as our internet service provider. As of 2010, Comcast was providing internet to 16.7 million households. There is also Century Link, the third largest telecom in the country, who absorbed QWEST in 2010. Comcast provides cable internet while Century Link is a DSL provider. There are a limited amount of other options, … Continued


Tuning Your Home Wifi Network for Speed

This quick guide will help you achieve better overall internet speed, especially if you live in a wireless dense area like an apartment complex or dorm. You can read our beginner’s guide to wifi security here.  Before we begin: This guide assumes you can connect to your router directly and are familiar enough to change settings in the web interface. Our … Continued


The Dark Knight Stumbles

Be warned, this review contains several spoilers.  There are certain statements used to preface a negatively toned article. “Let me start off by saying…” is a pretty common one, and I feel it might be appropriate. The same way my mom will never be my best critic, merely my favorite one, I lament my own disdain for this final Batman … Continued


DayZ, The Zombie Horror Survival Mod That Resurrected a Dead Franchise

If somehow you’ve managed to not hear about the latest craze in the Steam Summer Sale by Valve, your resistance to mainstream media is impressive. The web is ablaze with discussion groups, wikis, reviews and even television coverage of the new mod for the 2009 first person shooter Arma II entitled simply “DayZ.” DayZ currently boasts 550,000 players, and this number is growing. … Continued


Open Source Home Theater: XBMC

What is it? XBMC is a home theater software system. XBMC is open source, free, and constantly expanding. XBMC, it must be said, and this is not a minority opinion, is amazing. Attach a second monitor to your Windows, Linux, or Mac machine, preferably an HDTV and you now have a media library that is not only organized and streamlined, … Continued


Underpaid at the richest company in the world

Jordan Golson, an Apple Store employee in New Hampshire, sold 750,000 dollars worth of Mac products in a mere three month stint.  During the same time, he was personally grossing 11.25 an hour.  In his interview with The New York Times,  he lamented that, “part of me was thinking, ‘This is great.  I’m an Apple fan, the store is doing … Continued


Holographic Immortality: Tupac returns to the stage at Coachella

Despite being  murdered 16 years ago, on Sunday the 15th of April 2012, Tupac graced the stage with Dre and Snoop at Coachella. Perhaps what has lived on as his greatest legacy, is, besides a glorious career and dramatic exit,  a devout following on the internet of people who claim he is still alive. At Tupacnet.org you’ll find a list … Continued