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JotSpot Takes 'Nerd Factor' Out of Wikis (LinuxInsider.com)
27-Jul-2006
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Microsoft did it with the operating system, and now a newer company called JotSpot is trying to leverage ease-of-use and a friendly interface to popularize wikis, collaboration sites that allow for multiple editors and contributors. JotSpot said its JotSpot 2.0 wiki application platform takes wikis -- named after the Hawaiian expression "hurry quick" -- to a wider audience.
Lowdown: Bubbles eyes music projects (Jam! Showbiz)
29-Apr-2006
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HALIFAX - Mike Smith, who once played guitar and wrote songs in the Juno-nominated pop-rock band Sandbox before going on to acting acclaim as the bespeckled cat-loving nerd Bubbles on the hit TV series "The Trailer Park Boys," is thinking of one day returning to the recording studio.
Close encounters of the nerd kind (Miami Herald)
02-Apr-2006
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Move over, Roswell. South Orange County is recording its own share of UFO sightings. Several residents have reported the sightings to the Orange County Sheriff's Department in recent months. And word has even reached a Canadian UFO researcher who has posted information about the sightings on his website.
The Real Purpose of DRM (Slashdot)
02-Apr-2006
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Roberto writes "Gorgeous nerd Annalee Newitz hacked a political interpretation to recent vacuum cleaner cockfights at O'Reilly's ETech: 'Hollywood corporations have finally admitted that the real reason they built digital restriction management (DRM) software into PVRs and DVD players was to stop geeks from turning their recording devices into back-alley combat machines. You haven't seen ugly
GSB To Host First Nerd Olympics (Chicago Business)
02-Apr-2006
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The University of Chicago is a well known institution for several reasons: Nobel winning faculty, the invention of the nuclear bomb, and of course the wonderful catch phrase "the place that fun came to die." However, due to a recent trend, the University of Chicago has decided to distinguish itself in one other way: by hosting the first annual Nerd Olympics.
Young minds square off at robotics competition (Mississauga News)
02-Apr-2006
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Dan Skorbach is proud to be a nerd. The 17-year-old St. Martin Secondary School student said he likes standing out in a crowd. If that means dressing up in safety glasses and a yellow T-shirt with "Nerdbotics" emblazoned on it, he doesn't mind.
Roxanne's the main event on theme nights (Miami Herald)
13-Mar-2006
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Remember Skolnick and Gilbert from Revenge of the Nerds? While sitting at a bar, I feel like I'm a combination of these guys. I don't sport the pocket protector or the eyeglasses held together with masking tape, but when I unveil my memo pad and pen, I'm well aware of the ''nerd-alert'' going off in my general vicinity.
Online love life: It's only a click away (Orlando Sentinel)
13-Mar-2006
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Although some Americans think the words "Internet dating" and "nerd" are hopelessly linked, here's good news for anyone who has considered signing up on a dating Web site.
On the line: Nerd the latest (Sunday Life)
13-Mar-2006
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HERE we go! If watching millionaires drive really fast around a course 60 times in 17 different countries is what gets you going, you'll know by now that we're about to enter Formula One season.
Don Knotts Dies at 81 (WTOL News 11)
13-Mar-2006
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LOS ANGELES -- Don Knotts, the skinny, lovable nerd who kept generations of television audiences laughing as bumbling deputy Barney Fife on "The Andy Griffith Show," has died. He was 81.
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