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Nerd Shamed By Newspaper
by Choire Sicha This is the meanest picture ever published of someone in a newspaper ever. Particularly as it comes with the text "Students at Utah's Neumont University tend to be computer whizzes but...
View ArticleHottest Gay D&D Hookup Ever, Vividly Described!
by Choire Sicha "Every Sunday in Washington, D.C., a group of gay men in their thirties meet to play the wildly popular fantasy role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons." 9 Comments
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Chocolate Chip: I Was Not A Rap Video Ho
by Charlie SEEKING: "ethnically ambiguous" women with "regal faces" who "must be comfortable with artistic nudity" for an "Egyptian themed," Helmut Newton-esque (read: drop them draws, Nefertitty!)...
View ArticleGuided By Voices Classic Lineup, "Tractor Rape Chain"
by Dave Bry Hello, old nerds. The reunited "classic lineup" of Guided By Voices played their first show in 16 years last night in Dallas. (On their way to Matador Records' 21st anniversary party in...
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Talking To The Nerdist's Chris Hardwick
by Grace Bello Chris Hardwick has made a career out of being a nerd. Well, actually, he has made several careers out of being a nerd, as the host of "Web Soup" a writer for Wired, an author and the...
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Oh Bituminous Blast! At Midtown's 'Magic' Gathering
by Noah Davis Remember Magic: The Gathering? It was a game very popular in the '90s, and if you were like me, you may have spent hours in your bedroom, the sounds of Nirvana or Soundgarden bouncing...
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Can 'Diablo 3' Point Us Toward A Grand Unified Theory of Nerdrage?
by Jesse Singal Diablo 3, a hack-and-slash role-playing game for the PC published by Blizzard (which also makes World of Warcraft), was released a month and a half ago. There was about a decade’s...
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What "Real Life" Means On Wikipedia
by Jane Hu The title of the Wikipedia entry for "Real life" differs from its disambiguation page "Real Life" through the absence of one capital letter. But while the "Real Life" (upper case) page will...
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How to Watch "Battlestar Galactica"
by Choire Sicha Recently I've been rewatching "Battlestar Galactica." On a rewatch, I feel like it's a very long haul. And I've now seen a lot of people cruise through the first couple seasons then...
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Would You Like To Curate 17,000 Star Wars Characters?
by Ken Layne "Lucas had already done the cataloging. His company maintained a database called the Holocron, named after a crystal cube powered by the Force. The real-world Holocron lists 17,000...
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Carmine Infantino, 1925-2013
by Brent Cox Lifelong comic book man Carmine Infantino died yesterday at the age of 87. If you are even a casual nerd, you know Infantino as that guy that got to draw The Flash off and on for thirty...
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"Moby Dick": The Game
by Noah Davis I met Joel Clark and Tavit Geudelekian in Joel's Bushwick loft. They were talking, as people so often do in these situations, about a work of great literature. Joel's well-worn copy of...
View ArticleNerd Fracas Narrowly Avoided
by Alex Balk "Trouble erupted at the family event between costumed characters dressed as their cyber heroes when visiting Doctor Who fans clashed with Star Wars fans at a special fair in Norwich at...
View ArticleNerds Chastised
by Alex Balk "[Y]ou know what is more boring than the 'OMG (SPOILER ALERT) DIED OMG NOOOO WTF' tweets and FB posts?" 1 Comments
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The Great VC Coin Rush: At The Bitcoin Convention
by Maria Bustillos The world-altering monetary miracle and/or freakshow that is Bitcoin was on full display at the Bitcoin 2013 conference in San Jose this May. There were more than a thousand...
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Goodbye To The Best Show, Which Was "The Best Show on WFMU"
by Rick Paulas A few years ago, I changed cable providers. While the procedure's been streamlined over the years to where it's relatively painless, a sadistic remnant still remains: The vague...
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Pokemon Forever
Daniel Altavilla insisted that he’s a fierce competitor. The seventeen-year-old was killing time at Chipotle before registering to compete in his sixth Pokemon World Championships—his first in the...
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Sympathy for the Nerd
If you wander for a while among certain nerd gathering-places like 4chan, or 8chan, or Wizardchan, you will see dozens of casual references to “Chad.” Chad is handsome, tall, confident and rich; he has...
View ArticleThe Life of a Modern-Day Dungeonmaster
People drop things on the Internet and run all the time. So we have to ask. In this edition, Kickstarter community manager Nicole He tells us more about what it’s like to lead a game of Dungeons &...
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The Ombudsnerd
Since Arthur Chu’s historic win streak on Jeopardy! early last year, he’s shrewdly turned his still-minty viral celebrity into a regular gig as a cultural critic and, as some have put it, “the...
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