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Your interesting read of the day: xkcd’s color survey

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:

Friday Links: Now on Thursday

We’ve had a pile of links piling up on us here at Inside the Nerdery. Since tomorrow promises to bring some nerdtastic Halloween fun on the blog, we decided to free the links a day early.

• Top 10 Internet rules and laws from Godwin to Poe (Godwin’s law is one of my favorites).
• E-mail turns 40 today.
• Ventriloquist Dummy Choir Sings ‘Yesterday’. Yes, it is exactly what it says it is.
• An animated version of xkcd loves the Discovery Channel.
• When geeks have twins
• Pick up lines for graphic designers.
• Contrariwise (the literary tattoo blog) has a nice collection of Where the Wild Things Are.
• Handcrafted marketing helped make “Where the Wild Things Are” Number 1.
• Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer.
• 12 of the best looking hard drives.
• This stop motion animation of The Flintstones is pretty rad even if it features Fred fantasizing about some hussy that isn’t Wilma.
• If you need a little happy on a cold, rainy Friday, watch Improv Everywhere’s Grocery Store Musical
• Giant crocheted raccoon Mario rug.