Culture Buzz From the absurdly titled BBC show “World Series of Dating,” an awkward moment is salvaged by the discovery of a common interest in being great big nerds. I see a bright future for these two. (via kotaku.com)
Culture Buzz Here's a guide to New York City that's actually useful for once. Leave the boring old Empire State Building to the sad tourists who don't know where to find Spiderman's house. (HUGE thank you to all the awesome BuzzFeeders who contributed to this.*)
Help me out and you will be richly rewarded.* I'm trying to assemble a Nerd Guide to locations in New York, and so far I only have stuff from The Dark Tower, Peter Parker's house in Queens, and some of the key locations in Ghostbusters. What else??????
TV Buzz It's two weeks 'til we get more Doctor Who on BBC America, but they're going to be tiding us over with a series of specials (beginning tomorrow - Saturday, August 13, at 9/8c) about the 11th Doctor and his friends (and enemies). Here's a sneak peak from the first one. Looks like they've pulled together an eclectic bunch of famous nerds for the occasion.
Culture Buzz CollegeHumor has a very un-CollegeHumor-y video about how extremely religious people are the same as nerds because nerds are essentially people who are extremely into stuff. Discuss!
Craig and Neil nerd out in the most British of ways. (via The Uniblog)
Does a Battlestar Galactica marathon out-rank finals? Depends on what kind of nerd you are.
This is lengthy and deeply, deeply nerdy. But also incredibly charming and fun. So, you know, weigh your priorities and dive in.
Very complicatedly, if this video is anything to go by. Frankly, I'd almost rather not multiply at all if it means trying to wrap my head around this method. (Via.)
You nerds probably all know the answer to this question. Like, you probably have been wondering the same thing yourself, but you were too afraid to ask a panel of World of Warcraft game designers. Red Shirt Guy just showed you all up.
Just in case you were wondering how he was made. It's all very complicated.
It'll be a little sad when these kids get sold to a bunch of shady characters at the same convention dressed like Jawas, but it's hell of cute while it lasts.
Style Buzz Here's a T-shirt that shows you how much unread e-mail you have, so you can keep track of your inbox and attract potential sexual partners at the same time.
A very strong case for the deep, abiding wrongness of polyamory. Incidentally, television is wrong too, but that's probably not going to stop anybody.