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Why Not Let This US Marshal Fuck His Lady on the Courthouse Rooftop?
Gabrielle Bluestone · 07/10/15 12:35PMFormer Zillionaire Financial Power Broker Now Just Another Boring Nerd
Hamilton Nolan · 06/23/15 11:39AMSomeone Built the Minecraft Creator's Insane $70m Mansion in Minecraft
Jay Hathaway · 12/22/14 09:24AMMinecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson outbid Beyoncé and Shawn Knowles for the most expensive mansion in Beverly Hills, and nerds everywhere are celebrating their victory. Notch's net worth after selling out to Microsoft is estimated at $1.5 billion, roughly half a bil more than Beyoncé and her husband.
About Bullying
Joel Johnson · 10/22/14 02:52PMThe D-List Right-Wingers Who've Turned Gamergate Into Their Loser Army
Sam Biddle · 10/20/14 01:08PMCollector Opens a Magic Card Worth $25,000, Absolutely Flips His Shit
Jay Hathaway · 10/14/14 10:00AMThere's a good reason the guy in this video is completely losing his shit over the Magic: The Gathering cards he just opened. The deck he's unwrapping, from Magic's very first set, now sells for nearly $6,000—and he just turned an enormous profit.
Game of Thrones Fan Fights Off Burglar With Medieval Spear
Andy Cush · 09/19/14 03:20PMA Brief History of Rihanna Giving Her Fans Lap Dances
Jay Hathaway · 07/11/14 05:05PMA video of Rihanna giving a lap dance to a bespectacled, "nerdy" audience member made the rounds yesterday, as the guy was declared both the luckiest and the most awkward Rihanna fan of all time. Awkward, maybe, but this ain't exactly Rihanna's first lap dance rodeo—at least a half-dozen other fans have gotten just as lucky.
Patton Oswalt's Wife: Dungeons & Dragons Is Creepier Than Strip Clubs
Aleksander Chan · 05/20/14 09:34AMAppearing on the Pete Holmes Show last night, King of Queens' absurdly most-famous alum, Patton Oswalt, regaled to Holmes how his wife is not a fan of Dungeons & Dragons and him playing it. Upon learning that he had assembled a few other comedy nerdlings for a D&D group, his wife told him what's up:
Tom Scocca · 03/18/14 11:45AM
FiveThirtyEight is puzzled: Its computer analysis of Shakespeare finds that Romeo and Juliet speak less to each other than to other characters, or than Lady Macbeth speaks to Macbeth. Chosen mascot: the flexible-thinking fox, of fox-and-hedgehog fame. Better mascot: a hammer bashing anything vaguely nail-shaped.
Watch Two Teachers Rap Their School's Snow Closing Announcement
Taylor Berman · 02/13/14 09:07AMNothing says "cool" like being in charge an elite private school in suburban North Carolina. So it's fitting that Durham Academy's Head of School Michael Ulku-Steiner and his assistant Lee Hark would announce the school's closing today in the coolest way possible: with a cover of Vanilla Ice's "Ice, Ice, Baby."
Man Dressed As Gandalf Stands In Front of Train, Stops It from Passing
Neetzan Zimmerman · 12/16/13 07:08PMNext stop, Mordor. Kindly remember to take all your precious possessions with you when exiting the train.
This Is What an Amazing Customer Service Experience Looks Like
Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/14/13 08:39AMTSA Attempts to Confiscate Chewbacca Actor's Light Saber-Shaped Cane
Taylor Berman · 06/09/13 06:58PMDavid Brooks Wishfully, Wrongly Believes the Chinese Have No Word for 'Nerd'
Tom Scocca · 03/02/13 03:07PMNew York Times columnist and culture scholar David Brooks had some thoughts this week about the difference between hardworking Chinese students and lazy American students. The Chinese, he wrote, see education as a moral enterprise, built around the cultivation of discipline and other internal virtues, while Westerners focus on learning about things and are hung up on "critical inquiry" and "sharing ideas."
'Things as Bad as Hitler' and More of the Most Cringe-Worthy Posts from National Novel Writing Month
Max Read · 11/12/12 05:31PMWe're now 12 days into "National Novel Writing Month," the annual event in which thousands of people, encouraging and guiding each other online, pledge to write entire novels over the course of November. The official "NaNoWriMo" forums are abuzz with encouragement and advice, testifying to the power of group support in achieving your goals. They are also filled with some of the worst ideas you will read in your entire life.
Is James Holmes a Nerd?
Max Read · 07/24/12 10:00AMHere's something that almost all the mass killers of the last fifteen years or so have in common: they've been called "nerds." James Holmes, who allegedly murdered 12 people in a crowded Colorado movie theater on Friday morning, was described as a "nerd" by his uncle within hours of the shooting. Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is, in the Telegraph, a "puffy-faced computer game nerd." Columbine killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were "innocuous nerds," the Los Angeles Times claimed in 1999.
Why Community Is the Most Popular Show on the Internet
Max Read · 04/11/12 03:00PMYesterday, Community, NBC's sitcom about the odd and endearing relationship between a diverse group of community college students, was named TV Guide Magazine's fan-favorite comedy, and its fan-favorite ensemble. Its time slot competitor Big Bang Theory, the Caltech-set CBS comedy about a pair of nerd genius roommates, didn't win in any category.