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Only Toy Collectors Looking Forward To New Star Wars Movie
Nerds may be polishing up their plastic light sabers and dusting off their Darth Vader helmets in anticipation of the new, animated Star Wars movie The Clone Wars, set to open in August. But you know who's not awaiting the movie? Pepsi, Kellogg's, and and Burger King, traditional Star Wars sponsors! Why not? "A spokeswoman for Pepsi, meanwhile, was unaware that a new 'Star Wars' movie was being released." Ha, this flick has BIG BUZZ going for it. Luckily for nerds, McDonald's and Toys "R" Us have stepped in to fill the void with all types of action figures fit for stockpiling by grown men. But it's never a good sign when key parts of corporate America don't even know your movie exists. Prediction: a big, animated suckfest. Still, fans are planning to line up at Toys "R" Us just for the release of the toys. Let's hope that Triumph the Insult Comic Dog makes it out to that one: More »
Shut Up, Internet!
Another Lame Internet Meme
Unfortunately for me, I don't roll around in the comment threads of other sites, so I am just now learning that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull haters have decided that "Nuke the Fridge" is the new "Jump the Shark." Because, you know, they couldn't handle the campy opening scene in which Indy escapes a nuclear blast by hiding in a lead-lined refrigerator. I guess it does lack the gritty realism of faces being melted by one Biblical relic and a gut-shot being instantly healed by another or, say, using an inflatable raft as a parachute, or a thousand year-old knight or... Anywho... More »
revenge of the nerds
Kanye West Is Mad Enough To Break His MacBook Air On A Hippie's Head
Assorted hippies at the Bonnaroo music festival booed Kanye West last week after his show started eight hours late, at 4:30 in the morning. YOU UNGRATEFUL HIPPIE BASTARDS. Did you think that Kanye West would stand by and allow negative articles about him to appear on Digg without STRIKING BACK on his blog with CAPITAL LETTERS AS WELL AS EXCLAMATION POINTS?!? Shows what you know, SQUID BRAINS! More »
hackers
Stoner Hackers to Comcast: We Tried to Warn You
Whoa: Wired interviews the stoner hackers, "Defiant" and "EBK," who "took down Comcast's homepage and webmail service for more than five hours Thursday." Apparently they're pretty psyched about what they did but also scared: "I wish I was a minor right now because this is going to be really bad," says 19-year-old Defiant (pictured). Here's how they did it: More »
nerds!
Real Life Worlds of Warcraft
Why settle for the virtual world when destroying ogres and dwarves and elves and whatever the hell else you can kill in Worlds of Warcraft when you can get together with your geeky pals and role-play in the fresh air? That's what the kids in the upcoming documentary Monster Camp decided to do. Trailer after the jump. [via GuestOfAGuest] More »
Nerd Alert
OMG Babylon 5—the Battlestar Galactica of the mid-90s, back when getting all obsessed with cheesy space-opera was, for me, still age-appropriate—is on Hulu. C'mon guys, Quantum Leap next! [Hulu]
OMG Babylon 5—the Battlestar Galactica of the mid-90s, back when getting all obsessed with cheesy space-opera was, for me, still age-appropriate—is on Hulu. C'mon guys, Quantum Leap next! [Hulu]
happenings
Everybody's Dressed Like Lauren Conrad!
Hey who wants to go to New Haven?? We just got an invitation (sort of) from Yale Law School to attend an event of great historical import. Some crazy kids are trying to set the world record for the most people in one place who are all dressed like The Hills star, Lauren Conrad. It's next friday, 10pm at Yale. (Again, in Poo Haven.) Someone go! Someone go! They're providing eyeliner! (Click through for larger invite image)
party report
Hackers Get Nerd-tastic!
The "rent party" for hacker collective Resistor's downtown Brooklyn space was awesomely nerd-tastic. We woke up with a hangover from the Bar-bot, a robot programmed to make mixed drinks in beakers. Also a mystery: a diagram of a circuit drawn in permanent marker across our entire forearm that we're still trying to explain, as well as wash off. "It's basically just a device that would blink on and off. See the LED?" said one charming hacker. Naturally. Click to see the Bar-bot!More »
trends
Breaking: Nerds Work Out
Hey nerds, guess what? Being smart is no longer an excuse for being fat. The "ripsters" thing Nick Sylvester made up comes to terrifying life in today's Observer, where Doree Shafrir investigates tall tales of New York boys who read contemporary fiction but secretly have defined abdominal muscles. These literary Lotharios are real, and they're totally embarrassed about how they look good shirtless: More »
movies
Dune is Back Again—Again
Remember in 1984 when you went to see Dune and you were totally psyched but 20 minutes into it you started thinking maybe you got a hold of some bad fish sticks at lunch? And after an hour the theater was all hot and twisting and you were sure you had mono? And then in 2000 there was that Dune miniseries that only had three parts but felt like it had a lot more? Well, Paramount is having another go at bringing Frank Herbert's 1965 sci-fi novel to the screen. Friday Night Lights director Peter Berg is signed to helm what producers promise will be a "more faithful" interpretation of the book. Is that a good thing? [Wired]
advertising
Nerds, Olds, Goofballs Flock To Mohegan Sun
This new Broadway musical-themed ad for the Mohegan Sun Casino has inspired reaction on the ad blogs that spans the entire spectrum from "trite" to "gag" to "shit" to "I'd quit if I worked on that" (and indeed, the ad has been mysteriously pulled from YouTube—and UPDATE, the agency tells us that they didn't "pull the spot," just replaced a "rough cut" with the final version). What is for sure is that this is one casino where you are not in danger of, say, waking up in the morning with cocaine strewn across your room and a hazy memory of marrying a hooker; a more likely scenario is having a helluva energetic song and dance session with other goofy, middle aged whites, then going straight to bed to wake up in time for church. Count us in! The full ad [via Agency Spy], after the jump. More »
nerds
What Dungeons & Dragons Did For Creatives
Hey, raging creative underclass! Remember playing pencil-and-paper role-playing games in
books
Home Design for Huge Booknerds
Everybody knows that books are a bitch to move and pack! They're even harder to store and display in cramped urban quarters. How to fix? Go the obsessive route and turn every square inch of your apartment into a custom-made book-storage unit. Check out this staircase-bookshelf! More »
jokes for nerds
"Don't Cry For Me Argentina" And Other Pop Songs Expressed With Graphs
Before now, rap songs dominated the "song's lyrics expressed through ironic graph" genre. (The most famous was the Village Voice's analysis of This Is Why I'm Hot.) Now a bunch of loveable webtards have done the same to pop songs. Some favorites are below. More »
book people
National Book Critics Circle Bloggers Worried About People Seeing Their Old Rejection Letters
The National Book Critics Circle blog, called "Critical Mass," is the place we go to get unreasonable and uninformed comment on matters of the day. But now it's reaching new heights of excitement! Blogs Joan Silber, a 2004 National Book Award Finalist: "As it happens, I'm talking to you during the particular week when I'm moving out of a loft in Noho where I've lived for 33 years."More »
Facebook's "secret" New York office is at 551 Fifth Avenue, just up from 45th Street. That is where we will all find adorable but nerdy and newly-rich boyfriends together. RACE YOU. GET 'EM WHILE THEY'RE (SORTA) HOT. [Alley Insider]
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