Nerdist was started by Chris Hardwick and has grown to be a many headed beast.

Chewin' It #12: Drama Queens

Kevin and Steve have not exclusively been comics over the years. They’ve occasionally dipped their toes in the Drama pool. This week they chat about plays they’ve done, their musical theater skills, drama auditions, and Lemme’s stint as a professional break dancer!  Chew it!… more

Alternatives To The iPhone Alarm App That Isn’t Quite Working Right

By the way, you’ve surely learned (possibly the hard way) about the iPhone alarm glitch by now, and that the alarm stopped working after the year changed.  Apple says you… more

New Site Displays ALL Of Your Personal Info

Upon launching the Spokeo website, they cleverly remind you that “it’s not your grandma’s phonebook,” which is not only a hacky reference but also literally true: the old meatspace phonebooks… more

Holy Hell.

Muppets With People Eyes, courtesy of WONDER-TONIC: I have no words. For more WONDER-TONIC goodness, be sure to check out Mike Lacher’s other programs and memes, like the Michael Bayifier… more
 

The Nerdist Podcast On Your Boxee

Got a Boxee? Want to listen to the Nerdist Podcast on it? There’s an app for that, now that Juan Felipe Rincon has developed one. He’s a member of the… more

Disconnecting

SlashGear’s Philip Berne has a column on the site proposing his “anti-tech” New Year’s resolutions, an attempt to reduce the role of technology in his life. His resolutions include calling… more

Top Torrent Searches Of 2010, Or Possible Proof That Some Movies Are More Popular Than Sex

It is not intended as an endorsement of using BitTorrent to find pirated video and music files, I shall insist at the outset, to peruse TorrentFreak’s list of the 100… more
 

PS3 x 1,760 = Awesome

Finally, PlayStation 3 finds a niche: The Air Force has hooked up 1,760 PS3s together to form the 35th fastest supercomputer in the world. It cost them about $2… more

Meet Charles, The Somewhat Creepy Robot That Can Read Your Emotional State And Give Directions, Too

Further proof that computers will ultimately replace, um, you: The IEEE has a blog post about Cambridge Professor Peter Robinson and his team, who are working on computers who… er,… more

Gotta Have It

The continuing problems with Skype — as of early this morning, the reports had the system only about 30% functional — are undoubtedly inconveniencing people, some more than others. Way… more