I had heard about him ever since Avril Lavigne broke out with her smash hits “Complicated” and “Sk8ter Boi.” He was part of “The Matrix” music production team that gave Avril & others their hits, their sound, their direction, and in some cases, their stardom. Britney Spears, Korn, Hilary Duff, Shakira, David Bowie, Katy Perry – he’s worked with them all. And he’s still hot.

For example, he co-wrote Rihanna’s latest song “Cheers” – in 4 months the music video already has over 61 million views. But Scott Spock is about a lot more than music.

Swizec Teller is the blogger who wrote “Why Programmers Work at Night,” an article that caused a 5000% spike in his blog traffic. It helped explain and justify why developers keep vampire hours – something most people find abnormal and don’t understand. So geeks shared it. By the 4th day, he had 627 + (likes) on google plus, 550 tweets mentioning the article, 288 new twitter followers, 475 comments on Reddit, 173 comments on his own blog, 89,000 visitors on a single day – compared to his average 30,000 visitors a MONTH. He’s a true geek, he works at night, he hangs out with geeks and he’s finishing his degree in computer science. But there’s more.

(Bogota, Colombia) The life of yank John Draper altered because of a whistle (from) Captain Crisis cereal boxes. Crunchman or even Captain Meltdown, is known as Draper, designed their own doll, a azure box (blue box), to generate phone hacking…The actual whistle of Skipper Crunch (Captain Crunch) cereal developed a sound with a frequency of 2,600 hertz… “How performed your life?” I became not popular until I’d been arrested with 1972. It was a time of good insecurity along with uncertainty. This helped me to find out and to separate myself via people I can put in danger…

Stephan M. Bernsee, founder of Prosoniq Products Software and DSP Dimension, is, among other things, an entrepreneur, an innovator, an audio expert, a soup-maker of sorts, and a giant among geniuses. He is a Signal Processing applications expert located in Mainz, Germany who now works as an independent technology provider licensing his developments to numerous companies in the audio market. “Stephan Bernsee is probably the greatest software engineer I ever met. He has a brilliant mind,” says Tolga Katas. “I have been an incredible fan of Stephan’s work going all the way back to the sonicWORX Audio Mastery program he wrote. His work is phenomenal.”

First of all, I had to go check out the Motorola Xoom to see what all the hype was about. My friends kept asking if I had seen the Motorola Xoom – the new competitor to the iPad that won Best of Show) but since I missed it, I went back to CES just to check it out. In the process I randomly met a fascinating but bumbling genius with a parrot and a suitcase full of cash. His LinkedIn describes him as “Audacious Pioneering Visionary, Researcher, Scientist, Engineer, Innovator, Educator, Editor, Lifelong Parallel Entrepreneur, Executive, Mentor, Investor, Producer, 3D Filmmaker, Peacemaker, Senior Consultant.” I got some priceless Mitnick pics, saw a killer new fashion technology and more.

Kevin Mitnick, the jet-setting, reformed-hacker-turned-Internet security consultant, received a VIP welcome in Macedonia where he was amused to stand in front of a billboard promoting his visit. The event was held at the Hotel Aleksander Palace in Skopje where Mitnick shared his expertise on the topics of his best-selling books, “The Art of Deception,” and “The Art of Intrusion.”

The billboard also advertises a bi-lingual web site created just to promote his visit. Check it out: http://mitnickmacedonia.mk. It’s impressive.

The Las Vegas Twitter elite attended TWITTERATI at Blush Nightclub at Wynn Las Vegas. Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone hosted the event with Twitter VP of Product Jason Goldman. The top Twitter users in Las Vegas were honored and attendees were tweeting to displays in Blush showing the tweets in real time throughout the event.The founders, of course, were happy to spend time chatting with the Vegas Twitter elite who are helping Twitter get closer to it’s goal to reach 1 billion users

Congratulations to Jerry Mahabub, Founder, Chairman, President, and CEO of GenAudio Inc., whose 3D sound technology – AstoundSound – was used in the “We Are the World” 3D video which won the “Best 3D Music Documentary Short Film” at the 3D Film Festival. The new version of the music video was created to celebrate the 25 year anniversary of the award-winning film. It was presented by AEG Network Live and Visa. This is an extraordinary honor for Jerry who has spent 26 years in research and development to create his sound technology that is attracting the Who’s Who of Hollywood.

They met at a Def Con hacker convention nine years ago. They had their first date and first kiss at a Def Con convention a couple years later. They got engaged at another Def Con. They got engaged at another Def Con. After being together for nine years in “an emotional marriage,” Vandal and Eris (their hacker nicknames) made their marriage legal at 3PM at the Royale Riviera Wedding Chapel in the Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, NV. July 28th, 2010, at Def Con 18. Theirs is a rare, eccentric, romantic and geeky love story, the kind that comes about as often as Haley’s comet, or once a century.

Philanthropist and inventor James Heseldon, owner of the company that makes the beloved geekmobile Segway, died in an accident on Sunday when he apparently drove his machine off a cliff on his estate in West Yorkshire England. Although he didn’t invent the Segway, he certainly enjoyed the Segway (invented by Dean Kamen) but Heseldon invented other things. According to PC World, Heselden was a miner and engineer that invented “a sort of Jersey Barrier for battlefields,” or a portable containment system made of a wire cage that can be filled with earth and sand, and used as a defense barrier to bullets, missiles, and suicide-bomber attacks.