Tag Archives: Star Trek

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.

Friday Links: Nerds love the outdoors

• Don’t forget, today is The Nerdery Open House. Come on down!
• The evolution of the logo.
• You were doing it wrong, an awesome thread on Ask MetaFilter.
• Birthplace of the web found.
• You can buy FarmVille groceries at 7-11.
• Check out this dude’s strange Lego tattoo.
• Star Trek in the Park, it’s like Shakespeare in the Park but with more Klingons.
• Pickup lines from Mad Men.
• The Girl Scouts get a new logo.
• Sidewalk Super Mario Bros.
• 11 Apple stores from around the world (and the winner of the most depressing Apple store goes to. . . .)

Kirk and Spock and Tik Tok

Okay, two videos in a row might be a little lame, but I cannot resist this one. Kottke has a bunch of Kirk/Spock musical slash fiction videos. They’re awesome and hilarious.

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.

Great Moments in Nerdery: Teaching your kid Klingon

If I had the ability I would write this post in Klingon. Because that’s the only thing that could make this story about a software developer who spoke nothing but Klingon to his son for three years even better.

Yeah.

Now before you start calling child protective services like the Boing Boing commenters are about to do, SPOILER alert (from the MN Daily story about the makers of a Klingon dictionary):
“As for Speers, who still gets nostalgic when he recalls singing the Klingon lullaby “May the Empire Endure” with his son at bedtime, the experiment was a dud. His son is now in high school and doesn’t speak a word of Klingon.”