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Commentary: Does shopping online mean we aren’t farting around anymore?

I had a baby and I found in the first few weeks of her life, the things I couldn’t get… Read More

Nerd Notes: Alcoholic Internet memes, video games as vintage books and more

Valve hooks up Team Fortress 2, for free! And apparently the game is also free of ads to boot. Nevada won’t discriminate… Read More

Nerd Notes: Iron Man goes to work, Jobs lands a comic and a woolly Robin Williams makes commercial

Bungie announces Bungie Mobile. Keep tabs on your Halo: Reach score and your buddies via iOS. Goodbye capes and Spandex, hello… Read More

Nerd Notes: A dad embarrasses his kid for a year and Peanuts on Twitter

Microsoft releases a teaser trailer for Halo 4. Master Chief is still a mega hunk, sporting a mega gun. … Read More

Nerd Notes: Eat ramen 3 times a day, meditate, and don’t steal laptops with built-in cameras

Microsoft’s Gamefest 2011 is now open for registration. Molly Wizenberg of Seattle is featured in The New York Times for her… Read More

Nerd Notes: Sony Vaio goes gold, it’s hip to be geek and an alien scares a kid

Seattle Retro Gaming Expo is going on this weekend at Hotel Deca in the UD. And don’t even think about… Read More

Nerd Notes: Showering with Star Wars, peeing with video games and wedding with capes

Looks like the T-Mobile jingle isn’t going to survive the AT&T acquisition. RIP little jingle. Bane gives his best over-the-shoulder glance in… Read More

Nerd Notes: The sport of bearding, the art of pitching a startup and the cult of Apple

Germany takes one home in the name of bearding. The world’s grossest best beard goes to this guy. “When my… Read More

Nerd Notes: Facebook plays dirty, squids in space and Batman sweats it up

Facebook hired a PR firm to publicly hate on Google. Wow, Facebook really didn’t Like Google’s +1. Cell phones are… Read More

Nerd Notes: Angry Birds hits the web, an octopus ballet and ice cream Androids

In case you didn’t already know it, Star Wars changed the world and now there’s an info graph to prove… Read More

Nerd Notes: Game of Thrones guide, careers in space and a tiny Chewie

A buttload of LEGOs and 6 months later this Master Chief costume emerged… The new Brink launch trailer is cool but loud. What… Read More

Nerd Notes: Free Comic Book Day, Bill Nye at UW and the coolest tiny airport ever

Free Comic Book Day is this Saturday, May 7. Participating stores around the Seattle area can be found here. Mother’s Day… Read More

Nerd Notes: Marvel joins Netflix, holy helmets and Cusack strikes back

Neil Cameron makes the alphabet awesome yet again. This time it’s Japanese themed and proceeds go to tsunami relief efforts.American… Read More

Nerd Notes: A ball catching bot, an internet kiss and the Finger-Nose

The intelligence behind tracking Osama is revealed via Twitter. Introducing the floppy disk necklace. Hey, if Mickey Rourke, Mortal Kombat and the… Read More

Nerd Notes: Social Vending Machines and the Grinch of the royal wedding

Mario gets a Portal gun. If Princess Peach had one she wouldn’t be stuck in another castle all the time.… Read More

Nerd Notes: Tattooed teeth, the battleshoe and a Borderlands proposal

Eric Schmidt interviews Tina Fey at Google HQ. Highlights include Tina telling Eric he would be the kind of guest… Read More

Nerd Notes: Bill & Ted 3, Yoda bat and the best of Sakura-Con

The Harvard Business Review tried to have a very serious discussion with Ben Huh about cat pictures, misspellings and Fail… Read More

Nerd Notes: Easter bunnies will fail, whales will sing and AT&T will survive

Whale songs hit the charts. Turns out whales aren’t just singing to get laid. AT&T is not going to crumble,… Read More

Nerd Notes: Whales inspire pianos, bugs inspire robots and marijuana inspires Ziggy

How to fix any computer by The Oatmeal. Kohler introduces new $6,000 “smart” toilet. The perfect place to spend the… Read More

Nerd Notes: A Kinect controlled armchair, a chameleon attacks and a president steals a pen

An official Rise of the Planet of the Apes trailer is released featuring slick CG apes, courtesy of Weta Digital… Read More

Nerd Notes: Kid sides with Vader, Google Earth wackery and an Angry Birds birthday

Some kid chooses the Dark Side over the Jedi Academy and makes a couple of Disney workers extremely uncomfortable. Apparently… Read More

Allen Institute: Human brains are more than 90% alike

The Allen Institute for Brain Science this morning revealed a first-of-its-kind map that charts the complex inner workings of the… Read More

Nerd Notes: The Winklevoss twins go away, video games go for the Grammy and Brazil plays with LEGOs

Judge tells Winklevoss twins to take the money, settlements don’t come in pairs. Google launches a daily trivia game, a… Read More

Where will all the shuttles land? Seattle’s Museum of Flight among top bidders

[Update, Tuesday morning: Bad news, space fans: Seattle loses bid for Space Shuttle] Tomorrow marks the 30 year anniversary of… Read More

Nerd Notes: Woz seems lonely, YouTube seems bored and Apple doesn’t seem to like horses

Woz says he’d mull return to Apple if asked — which he hasn’t been. Geek Zodiac. Too bad geeks don’t… Read More

Nerd Notes: Shakespeare’s Terminator 2, Microscopic Microchip Art, and tweeting for beer at the ballpark

Kevin Zelco (@MsBeerVendor) is taking beer orders (and tips) at Safeco Field via tweets. A @MrUrinal would round this venture out… Read More

Nerd Notes: Commodore Revived, Bill and Ted Return and Snake Makes a Fashion Statement

Commodore USA revives the 64. LOAD “*”,8,1 FTW. Seattle startup Evri’s mobile app EvriThing Baseball is your big ticket this… Read More

Nerd Notes: Volcanoes, sports, sneakers and moonbuggys

Sci-fi fantasy novelist George R.R. Martin feels cheated by the “Lost” finale. Lost co-creator Damon Lindeloff feels like starting a… Read More

Nerd Notes: 10 lessons from Angry Birds, 2 Thor posters and 1 Playmobil Apple Store

10 Lessons from Angry Birds that can make you a better CIO. No, slingshotting birds at the IT staff didn’t… Read More

Nerd Notes: QuickBar dies, Sagan sings again, and Floodzilla

The reviews are in on Amazon’s Cloud Player. Adobe dreams up an iPad Photoshop App. If A Glorious Dawn didn’t spark a… Read More

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