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BY GRABTHAR'S HAMMER I WILL ALWAYS BE YOUR FRIEND  12:00 pm March 2, 2013

Obama Crosses Nerd Streams, Every Molecule Of Internet Explodes At Speed Of Light

by Doktor Zoom

President Obama’s reference to a “Jedi mind meld” at a press conference shook the geekosphere Friday, leading many to doubt his credentials as nerd in chief. Anguished tweets about the gaffe flooded the internet, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and refused to shut up. And Serious News Organizations carefully explained [...]

GO AWAY I'M BATIN'  2:30 pm April 4, 2012

Here Nerds, Have A Mid-Afternoon Obama/Uhura Snack, For ‘Bating

by Rebecca Schoenkopf

Yeah yeah, President Obama seems to be in this picture too, but DAMN, Nichelle Nichols, you are 170,000 years old, and you are freaking FOIN. (Squee note, you are wearing a space necklace.) [TPM]

RACES THAT ACTUALLY MATTER  4:00 pm January 5, 2012

Gingrich Declared Geekiest Candidate, Geek Population Promptly Dies Off

by Liz Colville

Newt “Skywalker” Gingrich has been declared the geekiest candidate of them all in a new six-page “study” conducted by Scientific American. The criteria? Obviously not intelligence, but rather knowing stuff about topics including guns, stars, the Internet and science fiction. SciAm finds that Gingrich vastly outdoes Romney (second place, bafflingly) and Paul (third) in these [...]

E-MAIL OF THE DAY  1:33 pm September 20, 2010

LOTR Nerd Blasts Your Wonkette For Disrespecting LOTR, Nerds

by Jack Stuef

We didn’t know it was possible for someone who reads actual books and is a nerd to have bad grammar and spelling, but apparently it is, as one of them has written us to tell us that we committed “acts of common stereotyping” in our posts detailing Christine O’Donnell’s beliefs about Lord of the Rings. [...]

DUNGEON MASTERS  5:43 pm June 20, 2009

Nerd Community Nerdily Embraces Nerd President

by Ken Layne

Oh here’s John Hodgman, author of the weird and hilarious The Areas of My Expertise, who is apparently also a “minor television personality,” who knew?! And here is his very sly “roast” of the president, Barack Obama, at some event covered by C-SPAN. Worth watching just to see Obama cracking up over the hinjinx of [...]

MITT ROMNEY  4:19 pm May 7, 2007

Mitt Romney Doesn’t Care For Mr. Spock’s Love Life

by Ken Layne

2008   5:45 pm March 5, 2007

Edwards HQ Cyber-Vandals: Non-Partisan Pranksters

by Ken Layne

TOM DELAY  6:10 pm July 28, 2006

Poll Results: Everybody Loses!

by David Weigel

POLLS  2:09 pm June 15, 2006

’08 Straw Poll Results: Rudy Has the Geekiest Hair

by Alex Pareene


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