Tag Archives: Conan

Friday Links: Life-sized Conan in Lego and a Rubik’s Cube cake

• Zealous Good has a very nice write up about the Chicago Overnight Website Challenge. You should check it out.
• The Internet Tidal Wave, a 1995 memo from Bill Gates to Microsoft employees about the rising importance of the net.
• Conan O’Brien’s Flaming C in Lego, almost as good as Conan in Rubik’s Cubes.
• Speaking of, super awesome Rubik’s Cube cake.
• StarWars themed XBox 360 Kinect
• Five reasons geek culture should go away.
• This Zepplin was lurking around the Twin Cities last week, here’s what one rider/writer learned while riding aboard it.
• Comic-Con Bingo!
• If you missed it, you should watch When Sesame Street met the Beasties Boys.

Conan O’Brien kinetic typography

As you might recall a few of the nerds are quite the Conan O’Brien fans. Some us are also huge fans of typography. So you can see why we thing this kinetic typography video of Conan’s farewell speech to NBC is really some kind of wonderful.

Friday Links: Mind over mass media, Stop-motion Mario, and more

• Mind over mass media: “PowerPoint, we’re told, is reducing discourse to bullet points. Search engines lower our intelligence, encouraging us to skim on the surface of knowledge rather than dive to its depths. Twitter is shrinking our attention spans.

  But such panics often fail basic reality checks. When comic books were accused of turning juveniles into delinquents in the 1950s, crime was falling to record lows, just as the denunciations of video games in the 1990s coincided with the great American crime decline. The decades of television, transistor radios and rock videos were also decades in which I.Q. scores rose continuously.”

• Olson joins forces with Denali.
• Stop-motion Super Mario done with sticky notes.
• Science fiction should mainly be about people: A letter from Gene Roddenberry.
• IS it time to remove advertising from the web?
• TBS: Conan and NBC deserve Emmy.
• Miller High Life redesigned.
• Beyond Feminist Hulk, the tweets of other feminist comics characters.

Friday Links: Chess, Legos, action figures, what more could you want?

• Survey says: Business picking up for big agencies.
• How good are you at finding the center, noticing if things aren’t quite in balance? Test your skills with the eyeballing game.
• Clock calculates wassted time at meetings.
• 11 biggest nerd heroes who’ve appeared on The Simpsons.
• Give your Macbook a Lego keyboard.
• Lost tops social media interaction charts.
• The lost etymology of ‘fanboy.’
• The worlds tiniest open-source violin, xkcd on the Facebook panic.
• The Periodic Table of Superpowers.
• Action figures of modern artists.
• Hot nerds reading comics.
• Sort of awesome, a typographic chessboard.

Also, as a follow-up to Conan Cubed, I present Conan 2.0 weighing at 169 Rubix cubes.

Conan cubed: the making of

Conan O’Brien has a certain nerd cred to him, and he’s in Minneapolis for a gig, so why not try to coax him into a Nerdery visit by recreating his likeness (twice) on 156 Rubik’s cubes. Watch us pander to him:

Coco come home from The Nerdery on Vimeo.

Closed circuit to Coco: Come to The Nerdery. Sign these cubes. Be immortalized.

Hardcore fans of competitive Rubik’s cube competitions, Memory Lane beckons. Revisit these Rubik’s artists when they were athletes in this Pentathanerd flashback.