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purepedantry | September 21, 2006Hells yeah:
Modern, Cool Nerd
86 % Nerd, 56% Geek, 30% Dork
You scored better than half in Nerd and Geek, earning you the title of: Modern, Cool Nerd.
Nerds didn't use to be cool, but in the 90's that all changed. It used to be that, if you were a computer expert, you had to wear plaid or a pocket protector or suspenders or something that announced to the world that you couldn't quite fit in. Not anymore. Now, the intelligent and geeky have eked out for themselves a modicum of respect at the very least, and "geek is chic." The Modern, Cool Nerd is intelligent,…
purepedantry | September 14, 2006Wired Magazine describes the Ultimate Blog Post from a variety of popular sites:
"Blog" itself is short for "weblog," which is short for "we blog because we weren't very popular in high school and we're trying to gain respect and admiration without actually having to be around people."
Creating your own blog is about as easy as creating your own urine, and you're about as likely to find someone else interested in it. One popular technique for building readership is to send e-mail to more well-trafficked blogs offering to exchange links with them. One popular response from those blogs is to…
purepedantry | September 7, 2006The Union of Concerned Scientists is running a cartoon contest for the best global warming related cartoon. Check them out here. See, humor is cathartic.
Here is my feeble attempt at a global warming cartoon. Certainly not as witty as theirs, but I also can't draw so bear with me.
Hat-tip: Nature.
purepedantry | July 14, 2006So back in college, Kevin Smith came to talk to us. It has to be one of the funniest things I have ever seen. He came with no prepared material and spoke expositorily for about 4 hours, just telling stories. All of his stories were absolutely hilarious, and he is just a really personable guy. He was very unpretentious for someone who has become as famous as he has. Anyway, about a year later, a DVD was released that has footage of him doing this all over the nation.
On the DVD, he tells the story of how he was asked to write a new Superman movie, and his interactions with the producer…
purepedantry | July 9, 2006I think this paper sounds fascinating but we don't have access to NBER papers here. Anyway, check out this abstract:
Cultures of Corruption: Evidence From Diplomatic Parking Tickets
Corruption is believed to be a major factor impeding economic development, but the importance of legal enforcement versus cultural norms in controlling corruption is poorly understood. To disentangle these two factors, we exploit a natural experiment, the stationing of thousands of diplomats from around the world in New York City. Diplomatic immunity means there was essentially zero legal enforcement of…
purepedantry | July 2, 2006A clip of Shatner honoring George Lucas. Hilarious. Video below the fold.
Hat-tip: Volokh Conspiracy.
purepedantry | July 2, 2006The Family Guy has a great spoof on the religious interpretation of evolution.
purepedantry | June 30, 2006If you have gone to college in the past 20 years, odds are you went to about a thousand more A Cappella concerts than you bargained for. I was an RA in college, and frankly by the end I started boycotting them as a matter of principle.
Anyway, this video is hilarious: A Cappella Addiction Counseling.
Hat-tip: Daniel Drezner.