MetaFilter posts tagged with nerd

Nerd Boyfriend

vronsky — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:27:19 -0800

Reverse Engrish

wendell — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:54:00 -0800

Ronald McDonald is so-o-o last year. The new McDonalds mascot in Japan is "Mr. James", a nerdy white guy from Ohio who speaks broken Japanese in the new ads for their "Nippon All Stars" sandwiches. Here's his blog (copyright McDonalds), translated by Google. FRANCA (Foreign Residents And Nationalized Citizens Association) want MickeyD's to dump him. Those Wacky Japanese!

Costumes from Comic-Con

ColdChef — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:55:22 -0800

600 Costumes from the 2009 Comic-Con

He'd rather have a buffalo take a diarrhea dump in his ear

Christ, what an asshole — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:55:04 -0800

(NSFW) The Angry Video Game Nerd (taking a cue from seanbaby's lead) has been producing video reviews of some of the most notoriously awful NES games, from Top Gun to Bible Games. (Can't miss: The Power Glove.) Not content to go after one system, he's upgraded his range to take on other colossal failures like the Atari Jaguar, Superman 64, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (the movie). His newest series of videos, You Know What's Bullshit?, takes on everyday nuances like DVD box sets. He may be vulgar and his vignettes silly, but damn straight he's got a point. Enjoy all his archived videos here, spanning five years of obscenity-laced love/hate for his greatest passions.

Hodgman Roasts Obama

HumuloneRanger — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:11:34 -0800

John Hodgman tests President Obama's nerd credentials at the Radio and TV Correspondents Dinner. [SLYT]

1965 - Kemeny and Kurtz go to 1964

Artw — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:21:53 -0800

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

Nerd Herd!

ocherdraco — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:09:46 -0800

A group of middle-school-aged self-proclaimed nerds from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, who won the New York City FIRST Lego League Robotics Championship with their motorized robot called Thingamajig are embarking on a trip to the Robotics World Festival in Atlanta. After a lack of funds nearly scuttled their journey, they've been bailed out by British vacuum cleaner exec James Dyson, and have been given the kind of sendoff most young nerds can only dream of: an all-school nerd-cheering pep rally.

Not even a talking kangaroo

The Whelk — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:02:42 -0800

"But no people. That’s the dream here. And that’s why nobody faces the pretty durn obvious fact that after the apocalypse, alliances, partnerships, gangs, whatever you want to call them, are going to be tighter, stricter, more important than ever. Because that’s no fun" The Omega Nerd: The War Nerd talks about survival porn, water, Mormons, and Mongols.

World Building

Artw — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:26:11 -0800

Interview with Jon Schindehette, senior art director at Wizards of the Coast for Dungeons and Dragons. See more fantasy art at his blog, ArtOrder.

OldBenFilter: What if Obi-Wan went Sith

azarbayejani — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:00:02 -0800

Star Wars Battlefront III: a preview of a recently canceled game that apparently had plans to turn our good ol' ghost-ey friend Old Ben Kenobi into a Dark Jedi. The original developer for the game went under a few months ago, but alpha footage leaked about a day ago. Towards the end of the video you can hear a Sith (or a hoodless Palpatine) utter "Stick to the plan Kenobi." Just today, a picture leaked from Free Radical showing the character models. If only development could have continued.

Nerd-In-Chief

designbot — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:41:39 -0800

He collects Spider-Man comics. He video chats on his MacBook. He name-drops Jor-El of Krypton. He gave the Vulcan salute to Spock and jokes about "lithium crystals" (surely a misquote). He's got his own high-definition vlog on YouTube. Now, the Geek-in-Chief and his Team of Nerds are using their powers for good. Change.gov has been under a Creative Commons license for a while now, but yesterday, they took transparency a step further by announcing that "all policy documents from official meetings with outside organizations will be publicly available for review and discussion." What's next: revision control?

The Nerd Handbook

SpecialK — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:56:53 -0800

Are you a nerd? Have you ever dated a nerd? Are you dating or married to a nerd right now and you don't understand the person you sleep next to every night? Don't worry, help is here.

An except from a new book, American Nerd: The Story of My People.

fixedgear — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:25:41 -0800

The Cool Nerds. It's hip to be square, or something.

H.P. Papercraft

Del Far — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:02:23 -0800

H.P. Papercraft (SLYT) "I knew putting internet in the basement was a bad idea!" From the same guys who brought you IM IN UR MANGER KILLING YOUR SAVIOR (and already previously posted) Who knew there could be so many hilarious lines in the span of 2 minutes? "What's with all these zippers? No person should have this many zippers, I don't care what fantasy it is..."

Planet Karen

Pope Guilty — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:36:41 -0800

By turns touching, inspiring, and hilarious, Planet Karen is the daily comic diary of Karen Ellis.

Bo Fo' Sho'

srboisvert — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:15:47 -0800

Bo Fo' Sho' [youtube] My name is bo fo sho, a born bostonian, aryan librarian at the WORDsmithsonian

Save vs. Recession +5

boo_radley — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:59:26 -0800

Fantasy Stock Market Limit Break Go! A literal interpretation of fantasy stock market trading in Dungeons and Day Traders reg. req. Start with the rules and get trading in a week long mishmash of pyrolisks and porkbellies, mushrooms and margins, dragons and drawdowns...

What do you get when you cross a nerd with a bad boy?

desjardins — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:39:57 -0800

Geek tattoos. Gamer tattoos. Science tattoos. Medical tattoos. Assorted nerdiness. More. Not ready to commit? Get bar coded, sans ouch. (Previously)

Homo Sapiens Metaluecus

nilihm — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:01:36 -0800

White! White! White!

Hyperwhite?

White?!

The Angry Nintendo Nerd

ELF Radio — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 01:03:11 -0800

Remember the old 8-bit Nintendo glory days, when you'd save your allowances to buy an overpriced cartridge for $49.99 only to discover that it was a piece of crap? If you've been nursing hatred and remorse in your soul all these years, then The Angry Nintendo Nerd has got your back. I find his profanity-laced rants on such turds as Simon's Quest and The Karate Kid to be strangely cathartic. Best of all is his two-part nostalgia trip that sums up what everyone our age thought of the ill-fated original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie trilogy. Part I, Part II.

Welcome to Nerd Vegas

Alvy Ampersand — Mon, 28 May 2007 12:15:13 -0800

"It's a gathering of tribes. Strange, nerdy tribes." The only guide to San Diego's Comic-Con 2007 you'll need, courtesy of The Comics Reporter (And former Suck.com contributor) Tom Spurgeon.

Thank god you're not using Internet Explorer

Blazecock Pileon — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:14:26 -0800

Welcome to Larry Brash's Microsoft and Bill Gates Joke Page.

makes 'em look like cool spacemen or ghengis khan or aliens or evel knievels...

exlotuseater — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:15:59 -0800

The sport and hobby of Falconry, or hunting small game with raptors has been around since ~600 bce. What you might not have known is that there is a small industry to provide your hawk or falcon with a jaunty chapeau, often necessary to keep the bird calm. More here, here, and here. And then there's the crazy. All you need... is five-hundred geepee...

Meet me in Washington Square... and bring the Lightsabers.

®@ — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:08:33 -0800

Young Folks in the city playing kids' games with expensive toys. Or you can get budget version, for those who just prefer to whack each other. Who exactly does this sort of thing? It's getting more popular.

Things you didn't know about Bruce Schneier. They are on the internet, so they must be true.

chunking express — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:59:26 -0800

"Most people use passwords. Some people use passphrases. Bruce Schneier uses an epic passpoem, detailing the life and works of seven mythical Norse heroes."