nerds
Sports
1:00PM Nick Broughall | Sports and geeks generally go together like oil and water. Like milk and OJ. Like two positively charged magnet ends. Except when it comes to the following, that is… More »
10 Sports Fit For Geeks
1:00PM Nick Broughall | Sports and geeks generally go together like oil and water. Like milk and OJ. Like two positively charged magnet ends. Except when it comes to the following, that is… More » 
Entertainment
Nerds Beat Netflix’s Recommendation System, Qualify For $US1 Mil Prize
4:30AM Dan Nosowitz | In a very shrewd move, Netflix created a contest more than 3 years ago to award $US1 million to anybody that could create an algorithm more than 10% more accurate than theirs. Now, a team has finally done it. More »
Entertainment
John Hodgman: “Barack Obama Is The First Nerd President”
6:30AM Dan Nosowitz | John Hodgman, now perhaps best known as the PC in the “I’m a Mac” ads, spoke at the Radio and Television Correspondents Association Dinner about nerds, Trekkies, and President Obama’s favourite “name-brand smartphone [he] shall not name, for contractual reasons.” More »
Phones
Lady Marries Guy Who Was In Palm Pre Line Minutes Before Wedding
2:20AM Sean Fallon | Would your wife still be your wife if you were waiting in line for a Palm Pre at 7:45 when the wedding started at 8? My guess is no—but this guy has himself a very special lady. More »
QOTD
If You Were Crazy Enough To Get a Gadget Tattoo, What Would That Gadget Be?
7:00AM Sean Fallon | Extremely nerdy tattoos are popping up more and more these days. Not that you are crazy enough to get one, but let’s say you blacked out after a drunken evening and woke up with a gadget tattoo. What gadget might it be…and where would you find it? More »
Hardware
The Glorious, Hulking History of 3D Graphics
11:00PM Matt Buchanan | From the Voodoo1 in 1996 to the wallet-and-pixel crushing Nvidia GeForce GTX 285, Maximum PC recounts the entire history of 3D graphics in ultra-gory detail. A fantastically nerdy way to kill 30 minutes. [Maximum PC] More »
Entertainment
9:30AM Nick Broughall | This could be the opportunity at geek celebrity your Lego-loving bodies have been waiting for! A new, rather secretive TV pilot is coming and the casting agency is looking for self confessed nerds to star in it. More »
Secret New TV Show Looking For Nerds
9:30AM Nick Broughall | This could be the opportunity at geek celebrity your Lego-loving bodies have been waiting for! A new, rather secretive TV pilot is coming and the casting agency is looking for self confessed nerds to star in it. More »
Science
Neutron Star Crusts Are 10 Billion Times Stronger Than Steel
2:00PM Dan Nosowitz | A teaspoon of this stuff would weigh 100 million tons, and the only thing more dense is a black hole. Space is weird. More »
Vehicles
The Pi-Mobile Races at Imaginary Number Speeds
6:00AM Jesus Diaz | Some people drive a 1.2. Others a 2.2. Few drive a 3.14159. But whatever you drive, beware of the logarithms and remember to throw away your 420 in case you see a 5-0. 10-4? More »
Peripherals
