Love may be a universal language, but we're not sure that phrase includes the sci-fi alien races and fantastical creatures that rule the far depths of the galaxy, who express love in words beyond our human comprehension. When you're thinking of a unique way to woo your valentine this year, plan a tutorial to learn together one of these 14 geeky languages. While several of these Trekkie, Tolkien, Read more

It's the most wonderful time of the year . . . no, not the holidays . . . award season! It's time to dust off those red-soled pumps and start brushing up on your red-carpet etiquette and practicing your poses (like we said, it's the best time of the year). Courtesy of eBay Fashion, this week's stylist challenge presents the chance to win a $500 eBay Fashion gift card! Here's what you have to do: Read more

It's a new year and a new you! Fresh Start is a short series detailing 12 helpful tips to start off the year right, whether it be to advance your career or increase your financial cushion. We've already given you advice on kicking your daily deal habit, quitting caffeine, and making a call to lower your bills. Here's another way to start afresh in 2012. Many people include software skills on Read more

If writing a book is always the resolution left behind once the calendar runs out, make 2012 the year to finally get your novel out of your brain and onto the page. The fear of being rejected by publisher after publisher can set you back, but more than ever, self-published novelists are turning to ebooks to make their mark on their own. Ebooks are gaining some serious ground in sales, even Read more

Music junkies, take note: today Spotify introduced an integrated HTML5 app platform to round out the online music experience. Since Spotify partnered with Facebook, their user base has grown to over 10 million listeners who subscribe to friends' playlists and cultivate our own streaming music library. Like an iTunes app, any third party can develop and submit an app for Spotify's approval to be Read more

OK Go's habit of creating clever music videos helped make them Internet viral video darlings, and they're certainly not going to start resting on their laurels anytime soon. The band's new video for the song "All Is Not Lost," a collaboration with HTML5, Google Chrome, and the dance troupe Pilobolus, gives viewers a kaleidoscopic dance performance of the song in both the video and the browser if Read more

Remember the "first" Facebook Phone, the HTC Status? It's going to get some company soon. According to a new report, Facebook and HTC are building a Facebook phone code-named Buffy that will deeply integrate Facebook into the core of its functionality. It will be an Android-based device, run HTML5, and integrate Facebook in ways that other phones haven't, bumping up the social network's status Read more

It's never too early to get the littlest one in your life acquainted with the language of the Web. No, this isn't a lesson on writing within a prescribed amount of characters rather the basics of HTML coding. With the colorful HTML code and symbols of the book HTML For Babies, geeks in training will be able to properly format blog entries on their most recent play date to the zoo without help Read more

Adobe abandons mobile Flash development, will focus on HTML5 — Dvice If everyday life had video-game-like onscreen display — Cracked All about the real Quidditch World Cup competition — CNN Geek Out! Oregon tried out voting via iPads during Tuesday's elections — Tecca 10 new photos from the set of Return of the Jedi emerge — GeekTyrant You, yes YOU, can appear on Doctor Who: Best Read more

Spending a weekend in the country doesn't mean you have to check your fashion sense at the cabin door. This Fall's chicest cabin-friendly styles include parkas, luxe leather, shearling trim, and bold brights in novel cape and cocoon silhouettes. Courtesy of Secret, this week's style challenge gives you the chance to win a gorgeous YSL bag! Create a look that could have you strutting down the Read more