…but they won’t give me the source code.
Modern, Cool Nerd
65 % Nerd, 82% Geek, 26% Dork |
For The Record:A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
You scored better than half in Nerd and Geek, earning you the title of: Modern, Cool Nerd.Nerds didn’t use to be cool, but in the 90’s that all changed. It used to be that, if you were a computer expert, you had to wear plaid or a pocket protector or suspenders or something that announced to the world that you couldn’t quite fit in. Not anymore. Now, the intelligent and geeky have eked out for themselves a modicum of respect at the very least, and “geek is chic.” The Modern, Cool Nerd is intelligent, knowledgable and always the person to call in a crisis (needing computer advice/an arcane bit of trivia knowledge). They are the one you want as your lifeline in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (or the one up there, winning the million bucks)!
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My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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You scored higher than 99% on nerdiness |
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You scored higher than 99% on geekosity |
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You scored higher than 99% on dork points |
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…such as a teaspoon and an open mind
Doctor Who Makes Guinness Book of World Records
Insane yay noises!
…a possession of inestimable value.
More on the appalling injustice of the Tripoli Six. Add your voice to the outrage. PLEASE, do something.
Effect Measure
The Tripoli Six - Do Something About It. [updated]
…under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.
Continuing the outrage on the ‘Torture with Impunity’ Bill. I wish I had more Australian outrage to post, hopefully I will in coming days.
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- Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
Blogposts:
We are now officially living in a dictatorship
The time for complacency is over
Balkinization 1 and Balkinization 2
How The Abu Ghraib Photos Made Torture OK
An Obituary for America
Thunder on the Mountain: The Murderers of Democracy
On Moral Cowardice
A sampling of foreign newspapers:
Helsingin Sanomat - International Edition - Foreign
Watching America1 and Watching America2
…they never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
The Australian Paul Kelly Blog
Finally, FINALLY, the Australian mainstream media is starting to question the justification for our participation in the ‘Coaltion of the Willing’ (Well, *I* wasn’t!). Anyone questioning it before was obviously a leftist ratbag. But recent reports, especially those released by the US Government themselves, have shed light in a deep, murky cesspool.
…I do not think it means what you think it means.
The Princess Bride.
Certainly one of my favourite films ever, and a real joy to introduce my kids to as well.
Recently bought the Special Edition online, and oh! the wait was agonising. But, as always, well worth it.
Its one of the classics that just about everyone has seen, and can quote endlessly.
And here is the complete script for The Princess Bride.
…but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.
The US Government has redefined, no, RAPED the US Constituion, that document that has served the American people so well and so proudly. That noise you hear is the Founding Fathers spinning in their graves. In Australia, we follow the US so blindly, jackboot-stepping in time, left, right, right, right, right……
Torture is okay if done by them, by US, and we were supposed to be the good guys? Aren’t you frightened? Aren’t you in the least bit terrified for your rapidly diminishing rights? For your children?
Nothing to fear if you aren’t guilty? Who decides your guilt? If you are suspected, rightly or wrongly, they can now torture you. With impunity.
The terrorists have won. And worse. WE are now the terrorists. We have always been at war with Eurasia.
Here are some thoughts from the Blogosphere.
Stranger Fruit: It’s now legal …
A Blog Around The Clock : Should you worry?
WWdN: In Exile: a statement of conscience
Shakespeare’s Sister
Arcane Gazebo: They’ll have to change the Harvey Birdman song
Who would Jesus torture? » The Allen Almanac
…just thinking about penguins and feeling great love for them.
I collect penguins, especially Tux, the Linux penguin. Heres an online set of gorgeous Tux avatars: Tux Factory
