Nerdgasms

[meshou]

Post things that make you nergasm.

For example, I just ran across this image:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v63/Meshou/Agent019.jpg

Sam Waterson, starship captain. Holy shit. You know you want it.

[Dempsey]

http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive/0PBF46024BC-New_Specs_for_Ken.jpg

[MacGuffin]

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/vader_owned.jpg
:vader:

[macr0]

Pretty much one a day on http://thedailywtf.com

The one that always makes me chuckle when I think about is this one (because I know a guy just like this)


http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_Quadrasort.aspx


Stephan M?eller was overjoyed to hear that his coworker, The Specialist, had finally left the company. His coworker earned that title because he had the strange power to turn anything he touched into an unmaintainable, barley-compilable heap of codefiles: methods would swell to thousands of lines of code, case statements would branch to over ten levels, and so on. While browsing through his inventions, Stephan discovered the Quadrasort: it would sort a list of filenames formatted like "YYYYMMDDHH.ext". Sure, using the built-in Collections.Sort() method would do the trick; the format is, after all, designed for lexicographical ordering. But you have to admit, The Specialist's Quadrasort is that much more ... special ....



public void sortFiles(Vector filesVector) {
int len = filesVector.size();
int i;
String filesArray[] = new String[len];
for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
filesArray[i] = (String) filesVector.get(i);
filesVector.clear();
len = filesArray.length - 1;
String valA, valB;
int countA, countB, countYearA, countYearB, countMonthA, countMonthB, countDayA, countDayB;
while (len > 0) {
for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
valA = filesArray[i];
valB = filesArray[i + 1];
try {
countA = Integer.parseInt(valA.substring(0, 4));
countB = Integer.parseInt(valB.substring(0, 4));
if (countA <= countB)
continue;
filesArray[i] = valB;
filesArray[i + 1] = valA;
} catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {
Log.log( ERROR1+nfe.getMessage() , NPSLOGGER );
}
}
len--;
}
len = filesArray.length - 1;
while (len > 0) {
for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
valA = filesArray[i];
valB = filesArray[i + 1];
try {
countYearA = Integer.parseInt(valA.substring(0, 4));
countYearB = Integer.parseInt(valB.substring(0, 4));
countA = Integer.parseInt(valA.substring(4, 6));
countB = Integer.parseInt(valB.substring(4, 6));
if (countYearA < countYearB)
continue;
if (countA <= countB)
continue;
filesArray[i] = valB;
filesArray[i + 1] = valA;
} catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {
Log.log( ERROR1+nfe.getMessage() , NPSLOGGER );
}
}
len--;
}
len = filesArray.length - 1;
while (len > 0) {
for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
valA = filesArray[i];
valB = filesArray[i + 1];
try {
countYearA = Integer.parseInt(valA.substring(0, 4));
countYearB = Integer.parseInt(valB.substring(0, 4));
countMonthA = Integer.parseInt(valA.substring(4, 6));
countMonthB = Integer.parseInt(valB.substring(4, 6));
countA = Integer.parseInt(valA.substring(6, 8));
countB = Integer.parseInt(valB.substring(6, 8));
if (countYearA < countYearB)
continue;
if (countMonthA < countMonthB)
continue;
if (countA <= countB)
continue;
filesArray[i] = valB;
filesArray[i + 1] = valA;
} catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {
Log.log( ERROR1+nfe.getMessage() , NPSLOGGER );
}
}
len--;
}
len = filesArray.length - 1;
while (len > 0) {
for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
valA = filesArray[i];
valB = filesArray[i + 1];
try {
countYearA = Integer.parseInt(valA.substring(0, 4));
countYearB = Integer.parseInt(valB.substring(0, 4));
countMonthA = Integer.parseInt(valA.substring(4, 6));
countMonthB = Integer.parseInt(valB.substring(4, 6));
countDayA = Integer.parseInt(valA.substring(6, 8));
countDayB = Integer.parseInt(valB.substring(6, 8));
countA = Integer.parseInt(valA.substring(8, 10));
countB = Integer.parseInt(valB.substring(8, 10));
if (countYearA < countYearB)
continue;
if (countMonthA < countMonthB)
continue;
if (countDayA < countDayB)
continue;
if (countA <= countB)
continue;
filesArray[i] = valB;
filesArray[i + 1] = valA;
} catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {
Log.log( ERROR1+nfe.getMessage() , NPSLOGGER );
}
}
len--;
}
len = filesArray.length;
for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
filesVector.add(i, filesArray[i]);
}

[Schuyler]

pretty much anything from www.xkcd.com. The best is the James Bond (http://xkcd.com/c123.html) one IMHO, though this (http://xkcd.com/c55.html) basically sums up T'ness in my mind. Also, Spoilers (http://xkcd.com/c109.html) is pretty damn good.

[nittanylion302]

anything from http://www.bash.org

[Schuyler]

anything from http://www.bash.org

You know, if you type your password in the forums it will show up as *****

see:

*********




love that one.

[macr0]

anything from http://www.bash.org

Didn't know about that one. That's a funny site! Thanks.



<link>once upon a midnight dreary, while i pron surfed, weak and weary, over many a strange and spurious site of ' hot xxx galore'. While i clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour, " 'Tis not possible!", i muttered, " give me back my free hardcore!"..... quoth the server, 404.
<hokage> *cries*, scary....

[NightCrawler]

I love bash.org, my gosh. macr0, I didn't see that quote. Hilarious.

[Deckard]

Probably have to have played WoW to find this funny. :)

Link (http://users.pandora.be/drpepper/wowlotr.gif)

[ApeTheDog]

http://www.damninteresting.com/

Lots of interesting stuff on this site.
It's basically a bunch of articles about interesting stuff you don't know yet. It succeeded at, indeed, telling me things I didn't know yet in every instance but one I've tried it.

[headfonez]

http://students.fccj.edu/~perrml1/Bel.jpg

[NightCrawler]

pretty much anything from www.xkcd.com.

I have been reading these, I can't stop because my fast connection is too tempting.

[amazingkae]

http://ircamera.as.arizona.edu/NatSci102/images/extinstruct_files/image002.gif

[ApeTheDog]

pretty much anything from www.xkcd.com. The best is the James Bond (http://xkcd.com/c123.html) one IMHO, though this (http://xkcd.com/c55.html) basically sums up T'ness in my mind. Also, Spoilers (http://xkcd.com/c109.html) is pretty damn good.

Great stuff!

[lbloom]

Sam Waterson, starship captain.

Waterston.

:P

[C.J.Woolf]

Nerd love:

http://xkcd.com/c162.html

It made me go "Awwwww." (sarcasm-free)

[meshou]

Waterston.

:PI left out the T, OK? It'd still be hot.

[Krill]

http://dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_031.htm

[booyalab]

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/vader_owned.jpg
:vader:

that made me remember this

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/awesome.jpg

[htb]

that made me remember thisWhy that isn't in a museum, as a touchstone for modern art, I don't know.


In the spirit of the Photoshop Phriday opening post, and Star Wars (http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=2374):

[Hustler]

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Yodasforcedeflection.jpg

[Rajah]

Nerd love:

http://xkcd.com/c162.html

It made me go "Awwwww." (sarcasm-free)I love that page! Thanks for posting the link. :)

[Diffusion]

Can I post these? Are these nerdy enough?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12HRWQiCVno

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APPf5mTqFWM&mode=related&search=

[charred_heart]

http://dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_031.htmthat is possibly the nerdiest thing I've seen in my life! This is more scandelous than porn!!!

[pavel_lishin]

Dresden Codak is amazing.

[sorabji_66]

cryptic crossword earlier in the week.

clue: winter warning to male clerical worker (3-3,3)
answer: off-ice boy

[Toonia]

I like the strong, silent type...

http://www.memory-alpha.org/de/images/thumb/9/91/Morn.jpg/200px-Morn.jpg

[Dunearhp]

Nerd love:

http://xkcd.com/c162.html

It made me go "Awwwww." (sarcasm-free)
This one made me sad.
http://xkcd.com/c215.html

[Dunearhp]

Look at the inscription on the walking chest in the first pane.
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/cgi-bin/ggmain.cgi?date=20070112

[Jasz]

i love social network analyses

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/social_network.jpg

[NoahFence]

http://xkcd.com/comics/centrifugal_force.png

[charred_heart]

i love social network analyses

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/social_network.jpgwhere's the ESFP in that group?

[lbloom]

@Noah:

:lol:

[563 740]

http://xkcd.com/c153.html <-- A genius mind at work

http://xkcd.com/c147.html <-- A young INTP falls for ESFP

Edit: two more: http://xkcd.com/c144.html and one for the programmers: http://xkcd.com/c138.html

[Jasz]

i love social network analyses

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/social_network.jpg


where's the ESFP in that group?

well we do know that the outlier (team 1 - developer) is the INTP ...

[Toonia]

Black holes

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/img/space/bhole301003.jpg

Hypercubes

http://www.generativeart.com/papersga2003/a23_file/image050.jpg

I wish soooo much i understood such things better, and have been feeling constant path-not-taken pangs lately. :sadbanana:

[Kyrielle]

http://www.adaeuro.com/gallery.asp

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b346/Runai/gallery_21a.jpg

I loooove aquascaping. :D Seeing Takashi Amano's stuff just gives me shivers! One day, I'll be maybe 1/100th as good as him. That's my nerdgasm-inducing topic lately.

[tinribz]

http://xkcd.com/c31.html This one made me laugh out-loud.

[rhinosaur]

http://www.b3ta.com/

[charred_heart]

http://xkcd.com/c31.html This one made me laugh out-loud.I don't get what's so funny about that :think:

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert20071832660125.gif

[RottenApple]

http://www.adaeuro.com/gallery.asp

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b346/Runai/gallery_21a.jpg

I loooove aquascaping. :D Seeing Takashi Amano's stuff just gives me shivers! One day, I'll be maybe 1/100th as good as him. That's my nerdgasm-inducing topic lately.

WOW !

I want to do this too now.

[sixthfantasy]

xkcd is awesome. I particularly like this comic: http://xkcd.com/c217.html and this one: http://xkcd.com/c161.html.

Also, Cantor's Theorem for the math geek in me. I just really like how that theorem is constructed.

And this Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_system) about type systems in programming languages. (I'm a computer science major)

[563 740]

and this one: http://xkcd.com/c161.html.

I'm not going to lie - I don't quite get that one. Is it the Godzilla theme song that's playing?

I dig this one though:

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/the_perfect_sound.png

[tinribz]

please remember me, anakin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqjGgHFUAF0&mode=related&search=) :boohoo:

[meshou]

Invisibility cloaks. (http://science.howstuffworks.com/invisibility-cloak.htm)

Javascript hypercube. (http://dogfeathers.com/java/hyprcube.html)

[Krill]

I'm not going to lie - I don't quite get that one. Is it the Godzilla theme song that's playing?


The theme song for Katamari (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katamari_Damacy) Damacy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwhFH75OCDs)

[Toonia]

Javascript hypercube. (http://dogfeathers.com/java/hyprcube.html)Awesome links Meshou! I'll probably be staring at that like a spellbound idiot for a while. it makes more sense to see it in 3-D. (I guess in a way it's still 2-D, but easier to think of it as 3-D). :banana:

Just found 3-D glasses! That helps. (kinda) It's really beautiful. What blows my mind is that the inside of a cube is 'empty', the largest volume of space exists between the planes, and the 'inside', the largest volume of space would be inbetween all the cubes of that hypercube, i think. That's the part i can't conceptualize. Where would that space be? Is it impossible for a 3-D brain to truly conceptualize 4-D?

[rhinosaur]

Pop!

[charred_heart]

What blows my mind is that the inside of a cube is 'empty', the largest volume of space exists between the planes, and the 'inside', the largest volume of space would be inbetween all the cubes of that hypercube, i think.
so you are saying it's amazing that the collective volume inside the hypercube is greater than the volume of the 'outer cube' or the general shape a hypercube takes.


I don't understand why that is so mind boggling?

[563 740]

$10 solution to a $20,000 problem (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10425224)

:theclap:

[MoonWatcher]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTby_e4-Rhg

Funniest thing I've ever seen. (you might need a few college level math classes)

[Deckard]

$10 solution to a $20,000 problem (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10425224)

:theclap:
Wonder if they pilfered the idea from their kiwi mates. (http://www.usbwifi.orcon.net.nz/) Anyway, it's a cool idea - i've tried it with usb wifi adapters and it works quite well.

[HilbertSpace]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTby_e4-Rhg

Funniest thing I've ever seen. (you might need a few college level math classes)

:rofl:

[563 740]

I hate to make this into an XKCD thread, but I was laughing my ass off at this:

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/hamiltonian.png

It's like an INTP/Nerdgasm combo.

[Schuyler]

Yeah. I love the *grip* bit.

[Jennywocky]

where's the ESFP in that group?

Actually, the ESFP is represented at every circle on the diagram simultaneously. (Either that, or it's an actual scan of his brain in any specific moment in time.)

[Schuyler]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZEEDa9Mej8

Hahahahahah

[sorabji_66]

cryptic crossword definition:

mouse chasing, e.g. at a New York mountain range.

answer:

catskill

[Carebear]

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/DarthSauron.jpg

[563 740]

An INTP-ish dilemma, illustrated dinosaur-ously

http://www.qwantz.com/comics/comic2-78.2.png

[Dansker]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTby_e4-Rhg

Funniest thing I've ever seen. (you might need a few college level math classes)

:theclap:

[Schuyler]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoN6XfyQsr4

[Schuyler]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MiMWJ1xBo8w

[563 740]

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y111/kakistos77/moving/mindyoureyes.gif

[Chaselation]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MiMWJ1xBo8w

Thanks Schuyler!:thumbup::rofl:

[Blue]

Reactable: Tangible User Interface Synth (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4689008057039304357)
John Safran meets the KKK (http://youtube.com/watch?v=9CKq_qIXsIo)
Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (http://bluemoonrising.com/artists/)
Giant Mechanical Spider (http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=4x2d9d4ck4)
What is the Singularity? (http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0133.html?printable=1)
Brass Goggles (http://www.brassgoggles.co.uk/brassgoggles/) (Steampunk Blog)
ghetto force lightning for Jedi dummies (http://afrotechmods.com/cheap/negativeiongenerator/pikashoe7.htm)
25 Great Calvin & Hobbes Strips (http://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/calvinhobbes.htm)
MILK Desk (http://www.milk.dk/)
Finnish Polka (http://www.leekspin.com/) (this makes me happy)
Socrates Meets Jesus (http://www.unm.edu/~humanism/socvsjes.htm)
Universe Scale (http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/eng/feelnikon/discovery/universcale/index_f.htm)

RESOURCES
MIT's OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/index.htm)
Graphical Network Dictionary (http://www.visuwords.com/)
Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org/)
Free Science Books (http://freescience.info/index.php)

Take that.

[Blue]

http://multi-touchscreen.com/perceptive-pixel-jeff-han.html

peh.

[cut the grass]

OMG hahahah!!!

:rofl:

[Blue]

OMG hahahah!!!

:rofl:
No sexual innuendo. I mean it's just too obvious.

[Ivy]

http://multi-touchscreen.com/perceptive-pixel-jeff-han.html

peh.

I need a cigarette now.

[nfinityi]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=E7sv1NZKXk4&mode=related&search=

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_Q6V4xPfc

:wub:

[cut the grass]

blue i was laughing at the dorky math video someone posted, and other stuff but i haven't watched yours yet.


i will now.

[Blue]

blue i was laughing at the dorky math video someone posted, and other stuff but i haven't watched yours yet.


i will now.
Sorry, I'm spent. Ok.

[nfinityi]

OMG and this one too:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=E7sv1NZKXk4&mode=related&search=

(just the opening jingle)

[cut the grass]

Sorry, I'm spent. Ok.

:lol:

[Dark Razor]

ZomgZ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb1MkhBytFw&mode=related&search=

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6Sdg5WJVnYw




http://youtube.com/watch?v=E7sv1NZKXk4&mode=related&search=

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_Q6V4xPfc

:wub:

I have a big head ... and small arms! :rofl:

[HilbertSpace]

ZomgZ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb1MkhBytFw&mode=related&search=

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6Sdg5WJVnYw


Damn, the Trek clip had such awesome potential for coolness. Those last shows with the huge naval battles against the Dominion were fantastic - they could easily have been a movie better than any of the other Trek ones. The video's author, though, should have included more clips of Sisko and company on the bridge, and I would have gone with a totally different piece of music - I liked the effect they got from that commercial for the FPS game where they played Mad World.

[Deckard]

Reactable: Tangible User Interface Synth (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4689008057039304357)
John Safran meets the KKK (http://youtube.com/watch?v=9CKq_qIXsIo)
Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (http://bluemoonrising.com/artists/)
Giant Mechanical Spider (http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=4x2d9d4ck4)
What is the Singularity? (http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0133.html?printable=1)
Brass Goggles (http://www.brassgoggles.co.uk/brassgoggles/) (Steampunk Blog)
ghetto force lightning for Jedi dummies (http://afrotechmods.com/cheap/negativeiongenerator/pikashoe7.htm)
25 Great Calvin & Hobbes Strips (http://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/calvinhobbes.htm)
MILK Desk (http://www.milk.dk/)
Finnish Polka (http://www.leekspin.com/)
Socrates Meets Jesus (http://www.unm.edu/~humanism/socvsjes.htm)
Universe Scale (http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/eng/feelnikon/discovery/universcale/index_f.htm)

RESOURCES
MIT's OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/index.htm)
Graphical Network Dictionary (http://www.visuwords.com/)
Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org/)
Free Science Books (http://freescience.info/index.php)

Take that.
:wub: :nerd: :wub: :nerd: :wub: :nerd: :wub:

Thank you, you made my afternoon at work much more interesting. Your nerd aesthetic is exceptional. And that mechanical spider is badass.

[Dark Razor]

Damn, the Trek clip had such awesome potential for coolness. Those last shows with the huge naval battles against the Dominion were fantastic - they could easily have been a movie better than any of the other Trek ones. The video's author, though, should have included more clips of Sisko and company on the bridge, and I would have gone with a totally different piece of music - I liked the effect they got from that commercial for the FPS game where they played Mad World.

Yes I agree, check out this one, it has awesome music!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO1xtFt_bI8&mode=related&search=

I would really like to see a DS9 movie, before the actors are all to old to play their parts again, it would have lots of potential to be really great, sadly it doesnt look as this is ever gonna happen.

'nother Geekgasm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntbWV_-unEk&mode=related&search=

[HilbertSpace]

Yes I agree, check out this one, it has awesome music!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO1xtFt_bI8&mode=related&search=

I would really like to see a DS9 movie, before the actors are all to old to play their parts again, it would have lots of potential to be really great, sadly it doesnt look as this is ever gonna happen.

'nother Geekgasm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntbWV_-unEk&mode=related&search=

Yeah, that one is much better.

I agree with you about the DS9 movie - the only thing is that they ended the series *really* well. A final epic battle in a costly and uncertain war, followed by peace and a return to normalcy for the characters. I wouldn't want a film to feel artificial - one of the strongest factors in my enjoyment of DS9 was the continuity.

[Schuyler]

(Warning, BSG spoilers for the end of season 3)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KTgN1z38bE

[Blue]

Fresh day.

Schizophrenia Diaries (http://www.schizophreniadiaries.com/)
Edge.org (http://edge.org/) (possibly the greatest)
And God saw that there were 0 errors. (http://ziza.ru/magic/god/god.html)
How to Securely Erase Data (http://driveslag.eecue.com/) (using a crucible)
Gallery of Computation (http://www.complexification.net/) (computer generated visuals)
Zero-Footprint PC (http://www.sub500.com/zero.htm)
How to Write With Style by Kurt Vonnegut (http://www.peterstekel.com/PDF-HTML/Kurt&#37;20Vonnegut%20advice%20to%20writers.htm) (excellent)
Bump Key HOWTO (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5177213949300140850)
Extracting 3D from 2D Images (http://www.fotowoosh.com/test.htm#v5498588)
Fast Food: Ads vs. Reality (http://www.boredstop.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=83&Itemid=32)
Popcorn in Slow Motion (http://www.maniacworld.com/popcorn-in-slow-motion.html)
The Ultimate Geek Clothing Collection (http://www.uberreview.com/2007/03/geek-couture-the-ultimate-geek-clothing-collection.htm/) (see high voltage jacket)
Cheatsheets (http://mypage.bluewin.ch/yuppi/links/cheatsheets.html)
Brain Maps (http://brainmaps.org/) (50 terrabytes of brain images)
NeoMythos (http://www.neomythos.com/index.html)

[NoahFence]

Zero-Footprint PC (http://www.sub500.com/zero.htm)

Oh my God, it's a Commodore 64 on fucking crack :shock:

[C.J.Woolf]

Oh my God, it's a Commodore 64 on fucking crack :shock:
Everything old is new again.

[Blue]

Tachikoma! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGWt6Dk2biA)

[Blue]

Wind Creatures. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XIf7TYEuDc)

[Ghost-Girl]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/TheGhostGirl/473meef.jpg

[Blue]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a86/psychowackjob/742185386_l.gif

and

http://chromasia.com/ (photography site)

[tinribz]

152 Rules For Being An Evil Overlord (http://quoll.uwaterloo.ca/mine/overlord.html)

[Varelse]

152 Rules For Being An Evil Overlord (http://quoll.uwaterloo.ca/mine/overlord.html):rofl: I've seen that before, though it was posted by a likely INTJ then.

[tribal_guy4]

Found this one on a random forum...

[Jasz]

Found this one on a random forum...

how random ...

[tribal_guy4]

So random that I can't even remember which one that it came from. (Which also means there is a decent chance that it could have come off of this one...)

[563 740]

[IMG]

I'm not sure why that's hilarious, but it is!

[justmyimagination]

Why the Brain is Not Like a Computer (http://scienceblogs.com/developingintelligence/2007/03/why_the_brain_is_not_like_a_co.php)

[V Profane]

I'm not really a Star Trek fan, but...

[HilbertSpace]

Miss Klingon Empire Beauty Pageant (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Mzja8u6ueg8)

[tinribz]

Thousands of photos from all the apollo missions:

http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo_gallery.html

11 and 13 being the most interesting!

http://www.zen93110.zen.co.uk/apollo/11.JPG

http://www.zen93110.zen.co.uk/apollo/11-2.JPG

http://www.zen93110.zen.co.uk/apollo/13.JPG

[Veradicere]

Deep Thoughts (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/tv/sat-night-live/deep-thoughts/)

My personal favorite:

"Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is
not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an
elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see."

[nfinityi]

The War On Christmas (http://youtube.com/watch?v=qI1M_GbHg-M)

"By the way, if that baby in there turns out to be Jesus, somebody owes somebody an apology"

:rofl:

Partisan Hackery (http://youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE)

[RottenApple]

Deep Thoughts (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/tv/sat-night-live/deep-thoughts/)

My personal favorite:

"Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is
not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an
elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see."


HAHA ...These are great

I liked this one
"Tonight, when we were eating dinner, Marta said something that really knocked me for a loop. She said, "I love carrots."
"Good," I said as I gritted my teeth real hard. "Then maybe you and carrots
would like to go into the bedroom and have sex!"
They didn't, but maybe they will sometime, and I can watch."

[outmywindow]

At MacGuffin's request I bring you the Dino Riders:

[bluebell]

At MacGuffin's request I bring you the Dino Riders:



Fucking awesome.

:grin:

I want one!

[Ivy]

/me heads to Ebay to search for DinoRiders

[bluebell]

/me heads to Ebay to search for DinoRiders

If your quest is successful, we need pics. More pics!!!

[C.J.Woolf]

Prehistoric Battletech! YES!

Whoever put that rig on T. Rex has some serious balls.

[Hermione]

easily overly excitable type intp's like me (you know, the sub type that usually gets laid alot) edit. used to.. have to becareful of becoming overstimulated. on a really good day i could do the dino riders absolutely to death.
during periods of unfounded unsolicited celebacy: cool avatars are the rule. this place, intpc has an absolute wealth of them-- too many to mention.

[tinribz]

To kick-off the Star Wars 30th Anniversary festivities in Europe, UAU International and Weird and Wonderful, in collaboration with Lucasfilm Ltd., present Star Wars: The Exhibition. Opening May 5 at the historic County Hall, Westminster, London through Sept. 1. This exciting event is part of the 30th Anniversary festivities being topped off by Star Wars Celebration Europe on July 13-15 at ExCel in London, England.

Star Wars: The Exhibition is the second leg of a touring exhibit that began in Portugal last year and attracted more than 150,000 visitors in the space of two months. The exhibition presents original film props, models, art, vehicles and costumes from the entire Star Wars saga, showcasing the artistry and storytelling that have made the films some of the most popular in history. Featuring an array of items specially selected, including the spectacular life-size Naboo N-1 starfighter, Star Wars: The Exhibition gives visitors a rare glimpse inside the making of the epic movies. Fans can also enjoy several interactive activities from Jedi training to a green screen simulation that puts you right into the movie making the exhibit truly fun for all ages.

The 30,000 square ft exhibition is on at County Hall, Westminster, adjacent to the London Eye and above the London Aquarium. It will be open seven days a week, between 10am and 8pm.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_6610000/newsid_6618100?redirect=6618117.stm&news=1&nbwm=1&bbwm=1&nbram=1&bbram=1

http://www.starwars-theexhibition.com/index.html

I'm calculating the the cost in petrol of the 500m round trip in my head right now.

[outmywindow]

Fucking awesome.

:grin:

I want one!

Yeah, I saved up chore money for months when I was five or six just to buy this huge (we're talking two feet long, maybe a foot tall) plastic action figure thing of the T Rex. I loved that toy. *sheds a tear*

Link (http://www.dinoriders.com/Tyrannosaurus&#37;20Rex.htm) to the toy. Okay, so maybe it wasn't as big as I remember it -- I was a lot smaller back then.

I also had this (http://www.dinoriders.com/Pachycephalosaurus.htm) one. Man, I had the coolest toys back then. :rolleyes2:

[bluebell]

Yeah, I saved up chore money for months when I was five or six just to buy this huge (we're talking two feet long, maybe a foot tall) plastic action figure thing of the T Rex. I loved that toy. *sheds a tear*

Link (http://www.dinoriders.com/Tyrannosaurus%20Rex.htm) to the toy. Okay, so maybe it wasn't as big as I remember it -- I was a lot smaller back then.

I also had this (http://www.dinoriders.com/Pachycephalosaurus.htm) one. Man, I had the coolest toys back then. :rolleyes2:

:highfive:

I had heaps of plastic dinosaurs as a kid and a poster of a dinosaur above my bed for years (years past most other kids I suspect <_< ). But I never heard of Dinoriders till your post. :grin:

[bluebell]

http://pnkdesigns.com/blog/?p=182

I used to have a T-shirt like this, except the version on my T-shirt had Maxwell's equations in spherical polar coordinates (which looked waaay more impressive, although less elegant).

[Zero Angel]

http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/lightsaber.htm

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/lightsaber-2.jpg
Snakes on a plane II:
I've had it with these motherfragging snakes on this motherfragging spaceship!

[Blue]

Any episode of Star Trek where Lieutenant Commander Data sings. Especially the Gilbert & Sullivan bit in Insurrection.

[outmywindow]

I don't know if these are everywhere, or what, but I walk past this on a regular basis, and I think of MacGuffin every time (yes, I stopped and took a picture today just for INTPc):

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/IMG_1065.JPG

[MacGuffin]

I don't know if these are everywhere, or what, but I walk past this on a regular basis, and I think of MacGuffin every time (yes, I stopped and took a picture today just for INTPc):

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/IMG_1065.JPG

:banana:

:hug:

[meshou]

Best tattoo ever. (http://www.loujacque.com/tattoos/tattoos_2827.html)

Or maybe this one is. (http://www.loujacque.com/tattoos/tattoos_11902.html)

Or this one. (http://www.loujacque.com/tattoos/tattoos_11903.html)

[Zero Angel]

Muthafugga this aint nerd rap, this is gangsta nerd rap.

http://www.bzuniverse.com/~zeroangel/misc_files/Futuristic_Sex_Robotz_-_Welcome_to_the_Internet.mp3

(Warning! Some profanity)

[ChekhovTheAnton]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W9tHxtsGys

[Dunearhp]

I don't know if these are everywhere, or what, but I walk past this on a regular basis, and I think of MacGuffin every time (yes, I stopped and took a picture today just for INTPc):

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/IMG_1065.JPG

You need the right costume
http://www.flickr.com/photos/erinmj/476449838

[RottenApple]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W9tHxtsGys

haha .... that's great.

[Carebear]

I'm calculating the the cost in petrol of the 500m round trip in my head right now.

Walking is out of the question?

[MacGuffin]

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/lolchrist.jpg

[Rajah]

http://surreality.info/up/lastjedisupper.jpg

[outmywindow]

[IMG]

Luke's thinking "Geez, can't a guy get a little service in this joint?"

Also, it looks like they're all eating chocolate rain cookies for dinner.

[bluebell]

http://www.mightywombat.com/toons/numbers.gif

[bonsai]

http://uploads.neowin.net/forum/post-218115-1188061969.jpg

[outmywindow]

bonsai, I see your bet and raise you a radian clock:

http://www.embeddedmath.com/design/intermediate/radianclock/radianclock.jpg

[Sokkorobo]

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i161/Phantom40/1188269613526.jpg

[Sokkorobo]

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i161/Phantom40/l_0849d9bc5f8595fc8db32dc052490bc2.jpg

[charred_heart]

bonsai, I see your bet and raise you a radian clock:

http://www.embeddedmath.com/design/intermediate/radianclock/radianclock.jpghey that's very useful! I always forget how to make circlular motion algorithms, this would help :grin:

[RottenApple]

It has arrived (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=aba_1189819483)

[Ashi, K?]

It has arrived (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=aba_1189819483)

!


メタルギア!

[Sokkorobo]

rottenapple wins

[bluebell]

Yeah, baby

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjTbPtv88sI

[nonperson]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41kBON3M2ZL._SS400_.jpg

I would have preferred for the manufacturers to have used a refrigerator in their demo instead of a flat panel TV. But it is a start.......

[outmywindow]

The ultimate(ly useless) swiss army knife:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/additional/large/giant_swiss_side.jpg http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/zoom/giant_swiss.jpg

[nonperson]

http://www.popgadget.net/images/transparent%20canoe%202.jpg

[Xenolith]

It has arrived (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=aba_1189819483)

Looks very primitive.

$300,000 for this piece of crap? I could build a better one myself.

[nonperson]

Looks very primitive.

$300,000 for this piece of crap? I could build a better one myself.

6 is better than 2........ (http://forums.intpcentral.com/showpost.php?p=744076&postcount=335)

[Xenolith]

6 is better than 2........ (http://forums.intpcentral.com/showpost.php?p=744076&postcount=335)

Much better.

[RottenApple]

Much better.

:( but mine had guns ?

[tinribz]

Star Wars-Obsessed Rocket Geeks Build and Launch an X-Wing Fighter (http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/magazine/15-12/st_xwing)

http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/X-Wing34.small.jpg

http://pvonelling.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/x-wing-launch.jpg

[outmywindow]

tinribz, you left out the part where it promptly nosedives and crashes into the desert. Not that this prevents any of the builders from expressing elation at the launch.

[rainfall]

Street fighter - you're about to cream your panties regardless of your gender (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7cW2nMf1gk)

[outmywindow]

My own personal nerdgasm, a nickel-iron meteorite which was found while my great grandfather was plowing a field in Iowa back in the 1920s.

5656 5657

[Ellipsis]

My own personal nerdgasm, a nickel-iron meteorite which was found while my great grandfather was plowing a field in Iowa back in the 1920s.

5656 5657

Apparently from what I heard from my EAS professor those are quite valuable...though right now it probably isn't...the fresher the better....for one weighing a kilogram of good quality and rareness one could get $10,000 (or at least $100) dollars for it....

http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/6717/priceguide.htm

I am praying for a Kg of LUNAITE at $750 dollars per gram on the low end that could make someone almost a millionaire.
http://www.newarkcampus.org/professional/osu/faculty/jstjohn/Outer&#37;20Space%20Rocks/Lunaite.htm

[rainfall]

My own personal nerdgasm, a nickel-iron meteorite which was found while my great grandfather was plowing a field in Iowa back in the 1920s.

5656 5657

For what purposes does your index finger carry such a long fingernail?

[outmywindow]

For what purposes does your index finger carry such a long fingernail?

They're all the same length. It's just weird perspective from the angle of the picture. If you look at the other image, you can see that my fingernails are all pretty much equal.

Sadly, I do not have a raging coke habit.

[rainfall]

They're all the same length. It's just weird perspective from the way my finger's bent.

Sadly, I do not have a raging coke habit.

It's never too late to start.

[outmywindow]

It's never too late to start.

Heh, I know where I could go to start one. There's this creepy employee at the local liquor store whose pinky fingernails are a good 3/4 of an inch longer than the rest. He reminds me so much of Harvey Keitel's character in Taxi Driver. *shudder*

[rainfall]

Heh, I know where I could go to start one. There's this creepy employee at the local liquor store whose pinky fingernails are a good 3/4 of an inch longer than the rest. He reminds me so much of Harvey Keitel's character in Taxi Driver. *shudder*

Pinky? I thought gay dudes left theirs like that to signal potential mates. Is it really for coke?

[outmywindow]

Pinky? I thought gay dudes left theirs like that to signal potential mates. Is it really for coke?

That's what I've always thought. I had to read a bunch of pimp/dealer memoirs for a class a few semesters ago, and almost all of them mentioned using long, nasty fingernails as scoops for their various snortables. Maybe that's old fashioned now though, since these memoirs were mostly from the 40s to the 70s.

[charred_heart]

http://mike-lee.org/HOMETHEATER/MEDIASTATION7.JPG

[Dunearhp]

Why do they insist on preceding everything with 'My'?

[sandwich]

Heh, I know where I could go to start one. There's this creepy employee at the local liquor store whose pinky fingernails are a good 3/4 of an inch longer than the rest. He reminds me so much of Harvey Keitel's character in Taxi Driver. *shudder*


Pinky? I thought gay dudes left theirs like that to signal potential mates. Is it really for coke?

It's used for coke in the States, but the long pinky nail is common among Arabs. I'm not sure why- maybe as a status symbol showing that their work isn't strenuous enough to make it impractical?

[charred_heart]

Why do they insist on preceding everything with 'My'?to emphasize the fact that the stuff is not 'yours'

[Evignus]

Pak chooie uNF! uNF! uNF! :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E0ot9iJm_k

_

[charred_heart]

LMAO!

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/1183/dailyspaselection049nu4.jpg

:rofl:

[bonsai]

Not really a nerdgasm but it's flippin sweet and I didn't know where else to put it. (http://www.ukimagehost.com/uploads/131c083cc4.jpg)

[sinnamon]

:nerd: I got ridiculously excited the other day in my after-Christmas shopping when I found a Hamlet nutcracker. I was so annoyed because my mom & sister just didn't get it.

[outmywindow]

Not really a nerdgasm but it's flippin sweet and I didn't know where else to put it. (http://www.ukimagehost.com/uploads/131c083cc4.jpg)

Notice that Bush is peering at Saddam through his little scope.

I kind of wonder why certain people were included though; call me crazy, but Mike Tyson is not one of the select few hugely important people in human history.

[bonsai]

Mike Tyson is not one of the select few hugely important people in human history.

I was thinking the same thing, but I did enjoy the addition of Audrey Hepburn atop Beethoven's piano.

It'd be kind of fun to see who could name the most people in there. Shamefully, I know I wouldn't too well. :p

[Latte]

http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/2012/onedoesnotsimplyckq4.jpg

[charred_heart]

don't have a clue what that means. Guess there's a new generation of nerd now :nerd:

EDIT: Obligatory nerdgasm pic

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/7172/61964073iy7.jpg

[bonsai]

don't have a clue what that means. Guess there's a new generation of nerds now :nerd:

It's really the newest internet custom, it's blending multiple internet memes into a single entity - teh uber meme. Very popular with the sub 20 group at the moment. Anthropologists in a few hundred years are going to look at this internet subculture that we've developed with a great big WTF?

I did find it slightly humorous. (Mainly because I can spend hours just looking at lolcatz pictures)

[sinnamon]

Did anyone see that nutcracker?! He's holding a little skull! A Christmas decoration holding a skull! It's cool and ironically/morbidly funny! "Alas poor Yorick, I knew him well." Titter titter.

...nobody gets me

[Latte]

don't have a clue what that means. Guess there's a new generation of nerd now :nerd:

Legion!

[Latte]

Did anyone see that nutcracker?! He's holding a little skull! A Christmas decoration holding a skull! It's cool and ironically/morbidly funny! "Alas poor Yorick, I knew him well." Titter titter.

...nobody gets me

:hug:

[outmywindow]

Did anyone see that nutcracker?! He's holding a little skull! A Christmas decoration holding a skull! It's cool and ironically/morbidly funny! "Alas poor Yorick, I knew him well." Titter titter.

...nobody gets me

Personally, I would have preferred an "Oh, I am slain!"* Polonius. There. now how's that for getting you! ;)



*greatest line of Shakespeare ever.

[sinnamon]

There. now how's that for getting you! ;)

Thanks. I feel validated. :grin:

[charred_heart]

Did anyone see that nutcracker?! He's holding a little skull! A Christmas decoration holding a skull! It's cool and ironically/morbidly funny! "Alas poor Yorick, I knew him well." Titter titter.

...nobody gets meI don't see what the big deal is. The scene where the king is talking to a skull is the most stereotyped Shakespearean scene ever, the designer doesn't even need to have read the play to get the thing right.

to me it's like someone going crazy over a Charlie Chaplin figurine :/

[C.J.Woolf]

Personally, I would have preferred an "Oh, I am slain!"* Polonius. There. now how's that for getting you! ;)
I would love to hear that from someone because it means they laugh at my jokes.


*greatest line of Shakespeare ever.
My favorite line in Hamlet was Laertes'

"Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,
And therefore I forbid my tears..."

I bust out laughing every time I hear it.

[outmywindow]

I don't see what the big deal is. The scene where the king is talking to a skull is the most stereotyped Shakespearean scene ever, the designer doesn't even need to have read the play to get the thing right.


Watch as I render CH's point moot: The king never talks to a skull -- it's Prince Hamlet. Claudius is way too busy being a dick to spend his time contemplating the intricacies of life and death in the bone yard.

[charred_heart]

Watch as I render CH's point moot: The king never talks to a skull -- it's Prince Hamlet. Claudius is way too busy being a dick to spend his time contemplating the intricacies of life and death in the bone yard.who cares? I am an ignorant hick and I knew it was from Shakespeare!

[sinnamon]

I don't see what the big deal is.

It's funny because Christmas decorations are all warm & fuzzy, & here's one that seems not to realize the irony of a Christmas decoration holding a skull. The irony is doubled because Hamlet gets all nostalgic about the court jester that made him laugh as a child when he finds his skull. That's funny. Well... nerdly funny.


Watch as I render CH's point moot: The king never talks to a skull -- it's Prince Hamlet. Claudius is way too busy being a dick to spend his time contemplating the intricacies of life and death in the bone yard.

QFT

[charred_heart]

It's funny because Christmas decorations are all warm & fuzzy, & here's one that seems not to realize the irony of a Christmas decoration holding a skull. The irony is doubled because Hamlet gets all nostalgic about the court jester that made him laugh as a child when he finds his skull. That's funny. Well... nerdly funny.

It's a warm and fuzzy skull. You're just too much of a wuss to see it :/

[sinnamon]

It's a warm and fuzzy skull. You're just too much of a wuss to see it :/

:rofl:

[charred_heart]

I just had a major nerdgasm (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWnbFZ-N-gU)

[Titania]

Michel Foucault (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAwWwQZ_3FQ) babbling passionately about the nature of power, in French.

Jesus Christ. Jesus. Everything one could possibly want in a man.

[charred_heart]

Michel Foucault (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAwWwQZ_3FQ) babbling passionately about the nature of power, in French.

Jesus Christ. Jesus. Everything one could possibly want in a man.

i don't think this thread is about orgasming over nerds...

[Evignus]

http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/04aug/uf007042.gif

[Mr.G]

I had one off this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyd8O-2mkgk)...

[charred_heart]

img
that's an SGI, wtf is it doing talking about lunix?

[Titania]

i don't think this thread is about orgasming over nerds...If nerds don't orgasm over Foucault, their nerdcard gets a total downgrade. That guy's an extremely important figure in the social sciences.

[outmywindow]

You know what doesn't make me nerdgasm at all? Obnoxious techie elitists who run around passing judgment over what does and does not qualify as appropriately nerdy.

No, I am not talking about anyone in this thread. At all.

[charred_heart]

If nerds don't orgasm over Foucault, their nerdcard gets a total downgrade. That guy's an extremely important figure in the social sciences.I don't speak French. WTF, at least link a translation or something.


You know what doesn't make me nerdgasm at all? Obnoxious techie elitists who run around passing judgment over what does and does not qualify as appropriately nerdy.

No, I am not talking about anyone in this thread. At all.you go girl <_<

[Titania]

I don't speak French. WTF, at least link a translation or something.For context: Michel Foucault changed the world. Period. This is a man who changed every social science field, including psychology, by talking about power. This is the man who laid the philosophical foundation for the gay rights movement, a critic of prison systems, a critic of the way education and psychology is used to oppress people in society by creating and enforcing the roles of the privileged class. You can't take any social science or philosophy class without talking about this man's ideas. This is the Galileo of the social sciences, this is the man who changed how people viewed the world. That is the man you are watching speak, a one in a thousand years phenomenon.

He died young, of AIDS, in 1984.

Translation:

What strikes me with Bachelard is the way he plays against his own culture with his own culture. In our traditional education and cultural heritage, there are a number of established values, things you should read and things you should not, valuable works and negligible works, great ones and little ones. There is a hierarchy in this celestial world with thrones and dominations, angels and archangels: all that is highly hierarchized and the roles are very precisely defined.

Bachelard knows how to extricate himself from this set of established values, only by reading everything. By reading everything and by playing everything against everything. He reminds me of those skillful chess players who are able to capture big pieces with pawns. Bachelard never hesitates to put an unknown philosopher or an 18th Century fantasist scientist in opposition to Descartes.

He never hesitates in his analysis to mingle the greatest poets with some minor poet he randomly discovered at a secondhand bookstore. By doing that, he does not aim at reconstituting, in all its wholeness, the great culture of the Western world, Europe or France. It's not an attempt at representing the one great Spirit that lives and swarms everywhere. I rather have the impression that he tries to trap his own culture with the cracks, deviants, minor phenomena, quacks and dissonance he finds.

[charred_heart]

I already asked someone at work to translate for me, since they all speak French

Did he do battle with Ayn Rand? Now that I'd like to see.

[Titania]

Did he do battle with Ayn Rand? Now that I'd like to see.I'm not sure he did. Rand is to Foucault as Doctor Phil is to Martin E. P. Seligman. She wasn't respected in her day, and she's not very respected now.

Edit: He and Chomsky (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbUYsQR3Mes) had an interesting debate, though.

[Evignus]

that's an SGI, wtf is it doing talking about lunix?

The cartoon is years old but ity looks like an SGI O2 visual workstation which is pentium based and can run Linux :

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en-commons/thumb/c/c2/180px-SGI_O2.jpg


The SGI Visual Workstation series was a line of computer workstations manufactured by SGI and designed to run Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Linux. The Visual Workstations are notable for their use of the Intel Pentium II and Intel Pentium III processors (rather than the 64-bit MIPS RISC architecture usually used in SGI computer products).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Visual_Workstation

[HappyNoodleBoy]

LMAO (http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=223)

I've been having nerdgasms all week with the release of SSBB. I haven't been keeping up with the character leaks and such since they delayed it like a year ago. But then I found out Sonic and Metaknight were both confirmed and I got to play them thhis week! God I love super smash. Fuck Philosophy Midterms.

Awesome (http://youtube.com/watch?v=5maYlQXWv8A#)(Can't believe I've just found this)

[Eye-In-TiPi]

A few years ago, I went to a library book sale where they were getting rid of old books for really cheap. I paid a dollar for the paper grocery bag full of books that included this gem. The title alone was worth the whole dollar.

[charred_heart]

I'm not sure he did. Rand is to Foucault as Doctor Phil is to Martin E. P. Seligman. She wasn't respected in her day, and she's not very respected now.

Edit: He and Chomsky (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbUYsQR3Mes) had an interesting debate, though.
Maybe in the next Celebrity Deathmatch: Humanities Edition

[MacGuffin]

PLACE-HOLDER FOR CLASSIC STATUS

[nonperson]

http://images.apple.com/imac/design/images/gallery/imackeyboard_3_20071026.jpg

Love it or hate it, this is still one very pretty box........

[amazingkae]

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/palinflow.jpg

:gm:

[amazingkae]

I already asked someone at work to translate for me, since they all speak French

Did he do battle with Ayn Rand? Now that I'd like to see.

celebrity death match?

:p

[g_vartan]

http://www.twine.com

Awesome tool!!!! :reading: perfect for knowledge whores....



Technology Review, Oct. 21, 2008
Radar Networks' Twine, a Web organizer based on semantic technology, launches publicly today.

Twine is part bookmarking tool, part social network, and part recommendation engine, helping users collect, manage, and share online information related to any area of interest.

Twine uses machine learning and natural language processing to parse the contents of Web pages and extract key concepts, such as people, places, and organizations, from the pages that a user saves. The site then uses these concepts to link information and users.

[bonsai]

Mario Kart Love Song

[outmywindow]

The editing should win a prize.

Star Trek vs Star Wars: The Definitive Edition
All they need is Galactica or some Daleks to show up...

[MacGuffin]

I think this one literally qualifies:

Star Trek Inspired Corset (http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20121538&ref=addthis)

http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_430xN.54213112.jpg

Who wants to cosplay?

[Works]

I think this one literally qualifies:



Who wants to cosplay?

:whoop:

[solemn sistah]

I think this one literally qualifies:

Who wants to cosplay?
didn't know you were a trekkie?

[Works]

didn't know you were a trekkie?

He may just be horny.

[MacGuffin]

didn't know you were a trekkie?

Mildly.

[solemn sistah]

He may just be horny.
best leg it then!

*that's british slang in case u haven't spotted my recent language alteration. :grin:

[V Profane]

didn't know you were a trekkie?

I didn't know men liked tits?

[outmywindow]

I think this one literally qualifies:

Star Trek Inspired Corset (http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20121538&ref=addthis)

http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_430xN.54213112.jpg

Who wants to cosplay?
Now we know exactly what it must be like to run one of Riker's private holodeck programs.

I didn't know men liked tits?
:lol:

[solemn sistah]

I didn't know men liked tits?
um. let me take a moment to figure out what you're saying... nope, no luck.



come again?


*i'm not a trekkie

[C.J.Woolf]

I think this one literally qualifies:

Star Trek Inspired Corset (http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20121538&ref=addthis)
More gasm than nerd, methinks.

[MoneyJungle]

Star Trek Inspired Corset (http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20121538&ref=addthis)



Does the fact that I wondered from which incarnation the communicator badge was from before I ogled the bountiful bosom make me gay?

[fripping]

hope nobody linked this one yet.
as long as we're doing dirty scifi

[Works]

Does the fact that I wondered from which incarnation the communicator badge was from before I ogled the bountiful bosom make me gay?

I think your priorities are out of order. It's not just about the breasts, but the curves, how one portion of the body eases into the next.

[outmywindow]

Does the fact that I wondered from which incarnation the communicator badge was from before I ogled the bountiful bosom make me gay?
Well, the fact that the uniform design answers the question before it needs to be asked makes you bi-curious.

[MoneyJungle]

Well, the fact that the uniform design answers the question before it needs to be asked makes you bi-curious.

Can't wait to ruin Thanksgiving with this bombshell.

[MacGuffin]

hope nobody linked this one yet.
as long as we're doing dirty scifi

I knew Admiral Piett was gay!

[solemn sistah]

right. star trek = women with corset tits. got it.


*hides in shame

[livilivilivi]

anything from http://www.bash.org

lol i just found my newest favorite site

[The Dude]

You know, if you type your password in the forums it will show up as *****

see:

*********




love that one.


Whoa. It totally works with SSNs, too. Check it out:

***-**-****
:ph34r:

[Evignus]

Chicks dig Unix

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/44/167011570_18903a03f3.jpg

[Evignus]

LHC nerdcore rap :

LHC nerdcore rap

[outmywindow]

Yes, yes, I'm linking you to "The Sun," but it's worth it:

EXCAVATE! Actual Dalek found in English swamp. (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2289396.ece)

[C.J.Woolf]

Yes, yes, I'm linking you to "The Sun," but it's worth it:

EXCAVATE! Actual Dalek found in English swamp. (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2289396.ece)
Along with a skateboard and a mini foosball table. Is that how Daleks amuse themselves when they're not EXTERMINATING?

This bit reminds me of the Beatles studies thread:


UNIVERSITY academics are getting a £20,000 grant from the BBC to do research on Doctor Who.

A team from the University of Glamorgan will study the economic and cultural effect the series has had on Cardiff where the series has been filmed on location.

[Ghost-Girl]

Yes, yes, I'm linking you to "The Sun," but it's worth it:

EXCAVATE! Actual Dalek found in English swamp. (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2289396.ece)
Ha, I saw that here (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1159149/The-Dalek-deep-Doctor-Whos-nemesis-pond.html) earlier today. My favorite part:

‘The local council collected the rest of the junk we pulled out, but we've kept the dalek head and are getting a dalek expert to have a look at it.
Dalek expert? Who do you suppose that is? Terrance Dicks?

[outmywindow]

Along with a skateboard and a mini foosball table. Is that how Daleks amuse themselves when they're not EXTERMINATING?
Discounting the fact that they can now fly, I'd say they probably spend their free time trying figure out how defeat stairs and slightly rocky terrain.

[C.J.Woolf]

Discounting the fact that they can now fly, I'd say they probably spend their free time trying figure out how defeat stairs and slightly rocky terrain.
I like to think they blasted them and built ramps like the Romans at Masada. It's an engineering challenge.

They also worked out the trick where you can see only six Daleks at a time no matter how many of them there are.

[Ghost-Girl]

Discounting the fact that they can now fly, I'd say they probably spend their free time trying figure out how defeat stairs and slightly rocky terrain.

Actually, they showed that Daleks can climb stairs in the 1988 story Remembrance of the Daleks, and it had been implied that they could do so much earlier.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/TheGhostGirl/Remembranceofthedaleks.jpg

Of course, they could just level the building instead.

/Who geek

[outmywindow]

They also worked out the trick where you can see only six Daleks at a time no matter how many of them there are.
:lol:

Actually, they showed that Daleks can climb stairs in the 1988 story Remembrance of the Daleks, and it had been implied that they could do so much earlier.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/TheGhostGirl/Remembranceofthedaleks.jpg
D'oh! I can't say my Who knowledge is as complete as my Star Trek knowledge.

Of course, they could just level the building instead.

/Who geek
Similarly, why -- when they want to defeat humanity and/or The Federation -- do the Borg (or in the case of the new ST movie, the Romulans) only go back in time a few centuries at the most? Why not travel back 4.6 billion years and prevent the formation of the planet? Or even further and prevent the formation of Sol? Bah!

[C.J.Woolf]

Similarly, why -- when they want to defeat humanity and/or The Federation -- do the Borg (or in the case of the new ST movie, the Romulans) only go back in time a few centuries at the most? Why not travel back 4.6 billion years and prevent the formation of the planet? Or even further and prevent the formation of Sol? Bah!
That did happen. There was a Time War between the Daleks and the Time Lords that resulted in the destruction of both their home planets -- or rather, the prevention of their future existence. So it wasn't such a good idea after all. Doctor Nine (and Eight?) fought in it, and for a while the Doctor believed he was the last surviving Time Lord.

[outmywindow]

That did happen. There was a Time War between the Daleks and the Time Lords that resulted in the destruction of both their home planets -- or rather, the prevention of their future existence. So it wasn't such a good idea after all. Doctor Nine (and Eight?) fought in it, and for a while the Doctor believed he was the last surviving Time Lord.
The general difference between Doctor Who and Star Trek, though, is that The Federation would never get involved in temporal warfare -- or at least they'd frown upon it very strongly. The Temporal Prime Directive states that "All Starfleet personnel are strictly forbidden from directly interfering with historical events and are required to maintain the timeline and prevent history from being altered." This means that in theory, there would be no fear of reprisal from The Federation, and besides, if you weren't an idiot, you could go and fuck up Earth history well enough to cause The Federation to cease to exist in the first place. As for the Temporal Cold War, that's an Enterprise story arc, and as such deserves no recognition or mention. :ph34r:

In the Star Trek universe, there are self-imposed limitations on who can and does use time travel. 99% of the time, when Federation starships or personnel travel through time, it's due to an accident or the use of a preexisting fissure in time. It'd be difficult for a true time 'arms race' to occur.

[Ghost-Girl]

That did happen. There was a Time War between the Daleks and the Time Lords that resulted in the destruction of both their home planets -- or rather, the prevention of their future existence. So it wasn't such a good idea after all. Doctor Nine (and Eight?) fought in it, and for a while the Doctor believed he was the last surviving Time Lord.
The Time War is such an odd piece of story, especially since it never actually happened on screen or in any other media. Basically, when the new series started, they wanted to get rid of Gallifrey (Time Lord home planet) because to the producers and many others, it didn't seem like a planet a guy like the Doctor would have come from. Because a pompous, tight-laced society couldn't possibly produce a rebellious wanderer. Gah. So, they throw in a few lines about it getting destroyed, with the bonus of making the Doctor captain angst from then on. And eventually we learn the war was with the Daleks, and that the Doctor himself ended it, leaving only him (well, sort of) and adding more to the angst-fest.

There's also the strange fact that, supposedly, the Time War erased both Gallifrey and Skaro from time completely...which would mean that neither would have existed in the first place. Then, add to that mix that we will inevitably keep seeing Daleks reemerge as villains in new Who stories. And every time that happens, the sacrifice of the whole of Gallifrey seems more and more ridiculous.

Can you tell I don't like the Time War?

The general difference between Doctor Who and Star Trek, though, is that The Federation would never get involved in temporal warfare -- or at least they'd frown upon it very strongly. The Temporal Prime Directive states that "All Starfleet personnel are strictly forbidden from directly interfering with historical events and are required to maintain the timeline and prevent history from being altered." This means that in theory, there would be no fear of reprisal from The Federation, and besides, if you weren't an idiot, you could go and fuck up Earth history well enough to cause The Federation to cease to exist in the first place. As for the Temporal Cold War, that's an Enterprise story arc, and as such deserves no recognition or mention. :ph34r:

The thing about Time Lords is that, well, they're lords of time. And they've definitely got strict rules too. The most important of which is not to meddle with time lines and established events. But occassionally they take on the role of cosmic custodian, allowing for episodes like the one where the Time Lords order the Doctor back to destroy the Daleks at their creation (and he, famously, asks if he has the right, since it would amount to genocide -ultimately refusing to do what the Time Lords asked of him). Of course, later he supposedly wipes the floor with them and the Time Lords both, but I digress...

There are lots of rules for time travel in the Doctor Who universe, they just seem to be more flexible than in the Star Trek universe. Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey.

Ah, I envy Trek fans for your science that actually sort of makes sense, and easy timelines...and villains with no more than one origin story (Daleks have...three? I think it's three).

[Ghost-Girl]

Time Lord Rock

[MacGuffin]

Finally, we can smell like awesome!

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/trek_perfume.jpg

While smelling like "Tiberius" is a good thing, who in hell would want "Red Shirt"?

*sprays on Red Shirt, hits the bar*

"Hey, ladies, wanna see my photon torpedo?"

*wakes up the next morning missing a kidney with "Welcome to the wonderful world of AIDS" scrawled on the bathroom mirror*

On the other hand, "Pon Farr" promises quite a bit. As much or more than an Axe commercial, that's for sure.


[Edit by CJW:

Link was to www. ohgizmo.com/2009/03/05/star-trek-fragrances-yep-star-trek-fragrances

It spawned a multitude of browsers when I followed it.]

[outmywindow]

I heard about that stuff a few weeks ago. There's also a fragarance called "Pon Farr." Mmm, psychotically induced, rage-filled mating rituals....

[MacGuffin]

[Edit by CJW:

Link was to www. ohgizmo.com/2009/03/05/star-trek-fragrances-yep-star-trek-fragrances

It spawned a multitude of browsers when I followed it.]
It did? I had no problem in Opera.


I heard about that stuff a few weeks ago. There's also a fragarance called "Pon Farr." Mmm, psychotically induced, rage-filled mating rituals....


On the other hand, "Pon Farr" promises quite a bit. As much or more than an Axe commercial, that's for sure.

Hot, hot, hot!

[outmywindow]

Hot, hot, hot!
God, you just got me to wondering how many gigs of Spock/T-Pol Pon Farr fanfic probably exists out on the intartubes. Nooooo! Khaaaaaaaannn!

[OrionzRevenge]

http://orionzworld.tripod.com/amok.jpg

[Ghost-Girl]

God, you just got me to wondering how many gigs of Spock/T-Pol Pon Farr fanfic probably exists out on the intartubes. Nooooo! Khaaaaaaaannn!
I'm guessing there's probably more Spock, just on the merit of having him sex up Kirk.

...But really, it's sad when your entire culture is just one big shag or die fic.

[outmywindow]

I'm guessing there's probably more Spock, just on the merit of having him sex up Kirk.
I was going for the idea that both participants would be experiencing Pon Farr simultaneously, thus doubling the "fun." That said, I hereby decree by the power of Rule 34 that somewhere, there exists fanfic in which Kirk mindmelds with Spock, gets Pon Farr by association, and nails Spock. So basically, Pon Farr Spock is nailing Pon Farr Spock in Kirk's body. Woah.

...But really, it's sad when your entire culture is just one big shag or die fic.
It could be worse; they could be Ferengi.

[ghost]

Star Wars

[Evignus]

56k rap

[Ghost-Girl]

In the strange "sexy" costumes vein:

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y293/echidnite/Photos/Cosplay/IMG_1000.jpg

(from here (http://echidnite.livejournal.com/23690.html))

[C.J.Woolf]

In the strange "sexy" costumes vein:
The cannisters in the background? I like to imagine them as naked Daleks the women rolled for their costumes.

I'll bet you covet this:

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/bluebox.jpg

The blogger's avatar is also tempting:

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/dalek_bitchplease.jpg

[Ghost-Girl]

I'll bet you covet this:

The inflatable TARDIS? Not so much. A full size prop to set out in the garden might be nice.

New Who and Red Dwarf tomorrow! This is a geek-tastic weekend.

[Limey]

The inflatable TARDIS? Not so much. A full size prop to set out in the garden might be nice.

New Who and Red Dwarf tomorrow! This is a geek-tastic weekend.

Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast....

[ocop]

http://forums.intpcentral.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7397&stc=1&d=1239433561

http://forums.intpcentral.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7398&stc=1&d=1239433575

http://forums.intpcentral.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7399&stc=1&d=1239433792


edit:now THREE of my personal favorites.

[Kameraad Eksteen]

http://dorkyearbook.com/

[MacGuffin]

http://dresdencodak.com/comics/2009-09-22-caveman_science_fiction.jpg

[MacGuffin]

Google's playable Pac-Man logo (http://www.google.com/).