Since it’s a the geek alphabet and not the nerd alphabet, we’ll let it slide that they chose NASA for N and not nerdery. Be sure to check out the whole alphabet (some of which are so geeky, I didn’t even get them).
Alec Brownstein wanted to work at one of the top ad agencies in New York. What’d he do? He bought Google ad words so that when the creative directors from those agencies Googled themselves they got a message from him.
Brilliant.
No spoilers. You’ll have to watch the short video to see what happened.
A few weeks ago one of the nerds tweeted about using the disk icon for save, and wondered when that iconography would be too dated (and if I could find the original tweet I would give proper attribution but trying to find a tweet in Twitter is a pointless waste of time).
Anyway, according to Daring Fireball’s John Gruber it already is. According to the Mad Mac Maven, Gruber has made a mistake. Again, this is one of those posts where the comments are rife with nerdery and user experience pedantry (you have no idea how happy I am that that’s an actual word). Who doesn’t love a nerdery pedant? Nobody, that’s who.
Chocolate chip ice cream is a nice enough, but it’s no RFID chip – that delectable morsel that tells fans of Izzy’s Ice Cream that their favorite flavor is in.
Izzy’s hired us to build a site that updates every three minutes based on interchangeable buckets of ice cream so flavor watchers can see exactly which 32 varieties are available, right then and there. RFID chips attached to nameplates of each bucket of each flavor (Izzy’s has more than 200 and counting) direct site content as flavors rotate in and out, and customers know what’s what (and when) via Facebook and Twitter.
Find your flavor in a timely manner at http://flavorup.izzysicecream.com/flavor-grid, and read all about it at MinnoV8 and St. Paul Pioneer Press (yeah, they scooped us on this story – pun well intended).
How do we know Izzy’s admires our work as much as we admire theirs? Because the ice cream man was generous to Nerdery staff when we debuted this project at last Friday’s BottleCap Talk.
Giving people laser eyes is obviously a valuable service. For five bucks, friend-of-The-Nerdery Dave Annis from Zeus Jones will doctor your photo with laser eyes. We caught up with him the other day as he was laughing all the way to the bank.
Q: Where did this idea come from and why are we, as a people, better for it?
A: I don’t think I came up with the “idea” for Laser Eyes. I think Laser Eyes has always been and will most likely always be. We’re not better for it; we exist because of it.
Q: Without giving away all your trade secrets, how do you do it?
A: Outer Glow.
Q: How many laser photos have you sold? We’ll do the math on how much you’ve made.
A: To be honest, I started Laser Eyes as a way to get out of the marketing business but quickly realized it was much more satisfying to simply give away Laser Eyes…also not a lot of people want to pay for it.
Q: Do you get much repeat business? Can you name names on who’s ordered the most laser photos? Do you think this person has a problem, or can they quit anytime?
A: There have been a couple repeat “buyers.” Laser Eyes is a lot like hard drugs. You start with just a taste, then you need more. The next thing you know you’re outside staring at the sun hoping to pick up a few gamma rays.
Q: What do you say to the customer willing to pay $4.99 and not a penny more?
A: Impressive negotiation skills.
Q: Get any calls from people who think you’re a really cheap Lasik eye surgeon?
A: Does Gary Busey count?
Q: How much for real lasers? On sharks?
A: That’s even MORE free.
Get laser eyes from Dave at Fiverr.com.
If I’d been more eagle-eyed I’d have posted this yesterday on “May the 4th be with you” day. But, well, I wasn’t. As someone whose never actually watched Star Wars (yeah, yeah, yeah, I’ve heard it all before), I found this pretty enlightening and entertaining. Plus, it’s made with Legos. Best of all, it’s only 2 minute and 13 seconds. Full of win, it is.
Here at The Nerdery many of us are fans of the xkcd web comic. And if you aren’t you should become one, quick. What’s the matter, you don’t like funny?
Regardless if you’re a fan or not, you should hop on over to the results of the xkcd color survey. The results are both funny and informative. Plus you can learn a bit about how the genders identify colors differently. Here’s sneak preview:
As you know the Bottle Cap is an integral part of Nerdery Culture. So you can understand why the People of class drink alcohol post over on Discovery’s blog caught our attention. If you take a look at this chart that shows that the smarter the you are the more likely you are to consume alcohol, you’ll see why were posting this here.
Go read the entire post for more graphs that control for other variables including education, gender, religion, and geography. Then, make sure to jump to the comments to read all kinds of crackpot theories and accusations.
