I've updated my post about NZ Craft Beer TV with the latest episode.

A Geography Lesson for the Tea Party.

Car window stickers representing individual family members is quite the thing over here. It seems particularly common among Hispanic families. Here's the geek version: Star Wars stickers.

At the EndGame minicon last weekend, seannittner ran a BSG ( Read more... )

I should have been playing Dresden Files right now, but the bug that took advantage of my con-weaked immune system had other ideas, so instead I'm catching up on my neglected Google Reader.
Mostly, several recent Zero Punctuations. This one's a classic (I wanted to embed it, but The Escapist's embedding appears to be borked ( Read more... )

Geekdad includes in his obituary for Benoît Mandelbrot (1924-2010) a cool chalk animation video of one of JoCo's greatest songs, 'Mandelbrot Set':

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Big Think has an interview with Mandelbrot here.

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I've been watching the Penny Arcade TV series as it was released over the year. Of course, this kind of high quality streaming video was something that went by the wayside while I was in New Zealand and England over the summer, so I've been catching up since. The entire series has been characterised by an amazing level of openness and intimacy on ( Read more... )

In the same vein as my last post on boundary definition, it's interesting to see the different aspects of geekdom that these three videos select as exemplary.

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'California Gurls' parodies are a very convenient place to look for this kind of thing because the original evokes and proposes a regional identity which is then usually altered in the ( Read more... )

So, first of all, I like Katy Perry. Second, I love filks, parodies and remixes of songs I know and like. Third, I love gamer culture in all most of its manifestations.

The thing that pushes this video over the "share on Facebook" to "blog on LJ" line is the context in which I found this video: this post on Topless Robot, Geek Girls Gone Vaguely ( Read more... )