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Tufts University "Nerd Girls" Are Hot, Gadget-Loving Engineers On A Mission (Read: Not a Mirage) [Nerd Girls]

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2008-06-15 23:00:00 by Jack Loftus in Gizmodo
...Nerd Girls, this team of twenty-something Tufts University coeds was created by founder Karen Panetta to dismantle two common "myths." First, that boys are better at math and science than girls; and second, that a female engineer is socially inept girl with no sense of style. Do the Nerd Girls succeed at demolishing stereotypes? We've covered...
 
Tags: girls, nerd, nerd girls team, nerd girls, team, allthe nerd girls, newsweek profiles, newsweek, geek
 
 
 
 
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Nerd Vittles Delivers some Asterisk Christmas Goodies

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2007-12-11 10:48:48 by Editor in VoIP & Gadgets Blog
...Nerd Vittles aka 'Santa Claus for Asterisk', has been busy in his workshop building and adding features to PBX in a Flash. Well Nerd Vittles has finally put on his Santa Claus hat today to deliver some Christmas goodies a wee-bit early. (14 days early to be exact Nerd writes Text-to-Speech Returns! If you've been following Nerd Vittles for a...
 
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Nerd shirt lights up when other nerd approaches

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2008-02-01 01:17:58 by HASH0x8bc4c58 in gadget life blog
...nerd couture The 8-Bit Dynamic Life Shirt is designed to recall old-school, 8-bit video games, when your characters health status was measured in pixelated hearts, but really any geek should appreciate these threads You wear one shirt, and your main squeeze dons the other As you get closer, the hearts on the chest actually light up Nerds,...
 
Tags: 8-bit video games, main squeeze dons, characters health status, shirt, recall old-school, valentines day, newsletter lands, nerd couture, hearts
 
 
 
 
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The origin of 'nerd'

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2008-01-13 10:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...Nerds: Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them The passage: "And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo, and bring back an It-Kutch, a Preep, and a Proo, a Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker, too Longtime close readers with a better memory than me may recall that Dr. Seuss also invented the word blog, back in 1953 You could look it up
 
Tags: longtime close readers, seuss, nerd, david anderegg, word blog, book, print edition, review, passage
 
 
 
 
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The origin of 'nerd' Episode 2: Bob of RPI strikes back

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2008-01-14 14:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...nerd Okay, Economist , the ball's in your court (after I send them this post And while we're on the subject of Seuss's neoligisms, the origin of the word "blog" in another of his works blogs meaning "the world's sweetest frogs" would appear likewise to be coinage of a nonsense word unrelated to our concept of what a blog is
 
Tags: nonsense word, word, seuss, nerd, episode, origin, blog, bob, court
 
 
 
 
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Good, Old Fashioned, Nerd-Related Whining

2008-01-15 22:21:31 by Douglas Moran in Gear Diary
 
...nerd-related-whining Or whinging, as they call it in the British world. digital-fingerprint@geardiary.com Ol Steve Jobs just finished his new products announcement at Apple, and its funny for me in a number of ways I never used to give a rip about MacWorld, as I work in the PC universe pretty exclusively I was just whining myself a few...
 
Tags: universe pretty exclusively, dead multiple times, products announcement, british world, months ago, original article, steve jobs, douglas moran, secondary system
 
 
 
 
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Cyclops LED Lenser helps you shine your nerd light in earnest

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2008-01-16 06:36:37 by HASH0x8be2a84 in DVICE
...nerd who has everything, the LED Lenser may be just what the fashion police ordered keep you safe from ever becoming one of the beautiful people. Essentially, this head-mounted contraption allows you to beam a shaft of light from your forehead from up to 300 feet, perfect for those late night dumpster diving missions. According to the...
 
Tags: light, led lenser, divine light, semi-regular fresh set, night dumpster, beautiful people, fashion police, aaa batteries, forehead
 
 
 
 
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Sinbad is Still Alive, Also a Gigantic Mac Nerd [Clips]

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2008-02-12 19:05:03 by posted by Pantha in
 
This video, found on the VMWare Fusion Site, illustrates not only that Sinbad hasn't passed awayas many of us previously thoughtbut he's a gigantic nerd on the caliber of Gizmodo readers. Just listen to what he says regarding how he runs Windows and OS X simultaneously and marvel at how much more he knows about Macs and virtual machine than even...
 
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Sinbad is Still Alive, Also a Gigantic Mac Nerd [Clips]

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2008-02-12 14:05:03 by Jason Chen in Gizmodo
 
This video, found on the VMWare Fusion Site, illustrates not only that Sinbad hasn't passed awayas many of us previously thoughtbut he's a gigantic nerd on the caliber of Gizmodo readers. Just listen to what he says regarding how he runs Windows and OS X simultaneously and marvel at how much more he knows about Macs and virtual machines than...
 
Tags: vmware, vmware fusion site, gigantic nerd, runs windows, sinbad, gizmodo readers, previously thoughtbut, virtual machines, video