The Somewhat Ambitious

Morning all! Nerds of a Feather this morning was recorded live from Melbourne, and was painfully fun. Yes. Painfully. Normally I run through the lineup of items covered, but this time around, I thought I’d choose my favourite item and expand on it a bit. And here it is.
Every time I bring up alarm clocks [...]

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Much of the nerd community is begging for an excuse to go outdoors. Most nerds are actually normal people with hidden (or not so hidden) fetishes, some have skin allergies which make exposure sunlight impossible, and some are convinced they are vampires*. But I’ll wager even the most stalwart agoraphobic would venture outside for this. [...]

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I’m regularly accused of being childish. We’re talking on a daily basis. And it isn’t necessarily because I spend a disproportionate amount of time immersed in fictional universes, or because I laugh out of context. It’s because of shit like this.
Invented to tailor for “creative children” (or Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters), Food Face Dinner [...]

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As we all know, Mugabe is a dick.
(There, I said it. Although to be fair, I originally wrote “duck” and then amended it, which would put a whole new spin on this unfolding tragedy.)
To protest the hyperinflation spurred on by this tyrannical feathery fuckhead, The Zimbabwean (which is a newspaper, not a searingly racist action [...]

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Diablo2003, over at Deviantart, has created this Darth Vader money. It reminds me of the time I was six and tried to use monopoly money to purchase chocolate frogs from the school canteen. The lunch lady, a kindly woman (who, if my garbled childhood memories can be relied upon, which I like to think they [...]

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…and not the good kind.
/Paul
(Link via Why That’s Delightful!)

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As I reported on Tuesday’s Nerds of a Feather, William Shatner might run for Canadian PM. Observe the wonder of evidence via glorious blockquotes!
The ‘Star Trek’ actor, who played Captain Kirk in the hit sci-fi TV show, is planning to make a dramatic career change and help lead his native country.
The 77-year-old star said: “My [...]

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Good God, it has been a solid month and a half without an Obama dedicated blogpost. And amidst signs that he is the most widely approved of and anticipated incoming President in living memory, it seems only fair that we revisit him on the eve of his inauguration. Yes, his inauguration, this most august [...]

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This one time, In high school, we had this hardcore christian classmate. For arguments sake, let’s call her “Chrissy”.
…Actually, she was a horrible person, so let’s call her Janine Vaginaface.
(Her dad was one of the most prominent members of the woodchipping industry, she once said the phrase “fuck whales, they don’t have souls” and [...]

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Not technically nerd news, but a brilliant way to begin Monday: President Bush has had a shoe thrown at him at a press conference. Regrettably, it didn’t break anything, but was thrown during a meeting with the Iraqi Prime Minister. From today’s Age:
As the two leaders met in Nuri al-Maliki’s private office, a journalist sitting [...]

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