How to Use a Sextant
If you’re as big a geek as I am, you’ve often wondered how people found anything or got anywhere...
Tag: hardcore nerdiness
Analysis of An Advanced, Ongoing Spam Attack
It might be a post-mortem issue for spinn3r and Tailrank, but Jonathan Moore writes up this incredibly detailed post...
Pixel Cathedral: Gerhard Richter’s Window in the Köln Cathedral
Wonderfully nerdy and absolutely beautiful. Just unveiled to the world last Saturday: this piece in Spiegel (image via) has...
Beyond the Groovy Age of Horror
Much of the coffee sprayed out my nose recently has been as a result of The Groovy Age of...
Google Maps Embed: Now Available To Unwashed Blogmasses
View Larger Map Google Blogscoped is such a guilty pleasure for me, like eating an extra lot of a...
She’s Geeky: A Tech (Un)Conference
Image of Robot Girl via HappySoda. This looks like it’ll be lots of fun, of the fierce punk girlbot...
Acronym Wonderfulness
Is from my good friend Greg: the best acronym ever, courtesy of DARPA: the Magneto Hydrodynamic Explosive Munition program....
Japanese Emoticon Dictionary (^_^)
Image: Japanese emoticon mugs, via. Although I’m not exactly sure why I might want an emoticon for injection (though...
Google Calculator Easter Egg
Google (verb) — number of horns on a unicorn. Calculator responds. Heh. (via)
UCSB Linguist: U Nerds R Hyperwhite
The article is just so damn nerdy all on its own: in the NYT, a few choice paragraphs about...