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General Nerdism

Jet Packs 4 Sale! Gitchyer Jet Packs!

A plucky New Zealand manufacturer is about to start selling jet packs to people for $75,000. So far no license is required and they can propel humans up to a mile in the air at 60 mph.
Statisticians expect millionaire playboy deaths to go up 112%.
via GOOD Blog

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GUEST NERDIST: Kelly Oxford

From time to time I ask people to scoop nerdiness out of their own brains and slap it onto this site in the form of writing, a technology that dates back 6000 years to ancient Mesopotamia. THIS is one of those times.
Please welcome to your eyes the delightful and Canadian Kelly Oxford:

I was 14 [...]

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Heinz Technology Brings Mobile Ketchup Into The 21st Century

GONE are the days when a diminutive ketchup slit merely weeps globs of the tomato-ey condiment onto a plastic sleeve that in turn becomes a shitty, makeshift spreading mechanism. FINALLY the Heinz Illuminati will soon usher in an Elizabethan Age of Mobile Ketchup onto our fries and hearts. And an additional wisp of packet sorcery [...]

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Best Use of Mac Genie Effect. EVER.

via @mattmira

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“I’m With Coco” Rally Monday in L.A.

Sure, Conan’s probably going to leave NBC with 25-40 million dollars while Jay snatches back “The Tonight Show,” but that doesn’t mean you can’t show you’re support for a guy who was the strongest and most innovative voice for brainy comedy nerds in the latenight landscape! Mike Mitchell, the artist responsible for the now iconic [...]

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CG Film Makes Reality Obsolete

This film rips the pants off your mind in one motion and then blows it. Its makers at The Third and The Seventh explain the piece in a way that seems like it may have been in another language first:
A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view [...]

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One Nerd’s Note To The TSA

Just in case you’ve just run straight to this site from a year-long cryogenic freeze (wobbly, I imagine, from atrophied muscles), a young Nigerian man tried to light up a passenger jet on Christmas. Fortunately he failed. Unfortunately so did the Transportation Safety Administration, who naturally has responded with brand-spankin’ new rules, with emphasis on [...]

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8-Bit “Thriller”

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Jack Torrance Novel Posthumously Released

Novelist Jack Torrance, whose mysterious death outside the infamous Overlook Hotel in 1980 sent shockwaves through the writer/caretaker community, apparently had been working on a book when he died. His surviving widow, Wendy Torrance-Thnettlebaum, whom neighbors describe as “shrill and blubbery,” was not available for whiny comment.
Available at blurb.com.

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Spock Toad

I took this yesterday at the Newport Aquarium in Northern Kentucky. Right before I snapped the photo, this Colorado River Toad pressed his hand against the glass. Couple that with the steely gaze…How could I NOT do this???
Star Trek LOLToads FTW.

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