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NerdCast #16 – Making The Most of Google Plus Communities

In this NerdCast we boldly go and discuss Google Plus Communities with Chris Weber, a Drupal developer here at The Nerdery. Chris happens to be a moderator of onto f the largest Drupal communities on Google Plus. We are also joined by Jules Sharred, the owner of the largest Star Trek fan Community on Google Plus,  a journalist for GeekMom.com, and the owner of the website Geeky Pleasures. Tune in as we talk about Trek, fandom, technology, and the features behind the success of Google Plus Communities.

Host: Ryan Carlson

Guests: Chris Weber and Jules Sherred

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Friday Links: Assumed Internet Habits

• Google celebrates the 46th anniversary of Star Trek with a choose-your-own-adventure doodle.
• Soon to be yours Game of Thrones bobbleheads.
• If you didn’t make time to watch the Mad Men Rick Roll, you should.
• An App for finding & preserving the old typography that’s all around us.
• Want to be more productive at work? Research says stay at home.
• Removie posters, what happens when you remove a letter of a movie’s title.
• So you need a typeface: a flowchart.
• Interesting list of assumed internet habits.
• Homage vs Ripoff.
• Observations from the greatest convention in the universe (Dragon Con).

Awesome animated Star Trek intro

(via The Mary Sue)

Friday Links: The new Twitter logo does pop culture

• The new Twitter logo does pop culture.
• MC Escher’s “Relativity” recreated in StarWars LEGO, with many in-jokes and grace-notes
• A year inside Charlie’s pockets, takes a look at what’s found in the pockets of a 10-year-old boy.
• Over on the Brain Traffic blog, Meghan Seawell writes about what she learned from the Overnight Website Challenge.
• 5 toxic beliefs that ruin careers.
• All five Star Trek captains united for one panel.
• I’m not so sure why I love this so much, but I do. The color palettes of Wes Anderson movies.
• Thank You Hater.
• Five amazing tech break-throughs first seen in movies.
• Nerd 2² Life coffee mug.

Friday Links: Triskaidekaphobic edition

• Why Tim O’Reilly is fighting SOPA.
• A follow-up to the illin’-whack controversy, Mike D of the Beastie Boys weighs in on The Colbert Report (much hilarity ensues).
• Don’t forget to RSVP for The Nerdery’s Agile webinar coming up Tuesday, January 17 & Thursday, January 19.
• We’ve all had our cell phones go off at inopportune times, but nothing is as bad as when it happened at the New York Philharmonic on Tuesday.
• What’s up with the weather?
• Star Trek vs StarWars: Which is better?
• Attention Design Nerds! PBS has posted the Charles & Ray Eames documentary.
• Why JRR Tolkien never won a Nobel prize.
• Ending an endless game: an interview with Julian Gough, author of Minecraft’s epic finale.
• Forecasting next week’s Apple education event.
• Lifehacker has the best tech-friendly airports and airlines.
• World’s most stunning beauty product: Fotoshop by Adobe.
• The magic & madness of the creative process.

Books for the baby nerd in your life

Forever Geek has been all over the completely cool baby books for nerds in the making lately. First they told us about the The ABCs of Geekdom, which is an adorably illustrated alphabet book.

And then there’s this totally great beyond words Star Trek Quiet Book (a quiet book, I learned, is a book you give your when you want them to be quietly occupied in public, genius).

Friday Links: Monsters of Grok and more

• In case you’re not sick of the Internet’s favorite meat, tomorrow is International Bacon Day.
• Modern art memory game.
• Monsters of Grok: t-shirts for famous scientists in the rock band tradition (the Ben Franklin/Black Flag one is my favorite).
• Logos in Legotown.
• Always connected, a day in digital life, a pretty surprising infographic (at least for me).
• Sorry, I can’t resist. Star Trek chracter or Erectile dysfunction pill.
• Did Twitters’ first commercial have to be so crappy?.
• The lost art of design etiquette.
• 10 books to recharge the creative mind.
• The mean men of coffee advertising.
• Infographic: What’s the value of a new customer?

Friday Links: The Geek Zodiac & lifespan of Saul Bass logos

• The Minneapolis Egoist gives a nice shout out to the winner of this year’s WebChallenge.
• Transformers dance to Thriller.
• Why do apps from the same company look worse on Android?
• What Font bookmarklet quickly identifies web fonts.
• The average lifespan of a Saul Bass logo is 34 years. This is kind of awesome.
• Kind of like the Chinese Zodiac, but not really. The Geek Zodiac.
• Atari iPhone App for all your favorite Atari games.
• 235 Star Trek characters in pixel form on one poster.
• 10 awesomely geeky cakes. Inspiration for The Nerdery’s bakers.
• Since badass is one of The Nerdery’s favorite words, I couldn’t resist this: 25 reasons Katherine Hepburn was an American Badass.

Friday Links: More on Gapgate & How Facebook can be bigger than Google

• How Facebook can become bigger than Google in five years.
• The President of Gap explains the new logo. In the Huffington Post she says, “We chose this design as it’s more contemporary and current. It honors our heritage through the blue box while still taking it forward.”
• Related to the last, A follow-up to Gapgate.
• Broken meetings (and how to fix them). Watchable, not just because it’s Merlin Mann or because he calls people nerds affectionately, but because it’s helpful and true.
• Everything you need to know about new Facebook groups.
• Get your buzz on with Star Trek drinks.
• 92% of US toddlers have online presence .
• Typeface memory game: “This very attractively finished typographic memory game includes 25 variations of the letter ‘A’, each in a different letter type. Players attempt to find the matching A’s in the same letter type.”
• The ultimate StarWars party, a bunch of cool looking food and recipes so you can make it yourself.

Friday Links: free iPhone 4 cases & stereotyping people by their favorite websites

• The big Apple press conference? Free iPhone 4 cases for everyone!
• In case you missed it: Improv Everywhere’s StarWars subway.
• 6 ways Sci-Fi lied.
• Hacking the Price is Right.
• What Makes a Good Creative Director?
• I’m a softy, but this letter to Patrick Stewart from the parent of a Star Trek fan made my eyes well up with tears.
• 10 technological advances marketers can’t live without.
• Stereotyping people by their favorite websites.
• The 9 Stupidest Superhero Identities.
• Origins of the world’s most important typefaces.