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Now that TLC has presented its fascinating/funny/exploitative portrait of virgins, it's moving on to one of the most commonly mocked segments of our society: Geeks. As a nerd who wishes her fiancé could make such an impressive wookiee noise, I'm certainly not the target audience for this trailer, but I suspect we're supposed to be laughing at the idea of people who love cosplay and Star Wars hoping to find mates. If you've been to a Comic Con event you know TLC definitely could have found people who are weirder than the folks in this clip, but I still fear for my dorky brethren. More »
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"Where are the lady geeks?" asks Fast Company blogger Jeffrey To. Over the course of six months, he attended dozens of hackathons, and found that women were sorely underrepresented. More »
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"My nerd cred is attacked all the time. People think that that was fabricated by MTV. That's the hardest rumor for me to deal with," says Liz Lee, star of the faux-reality show My Life as Liz. Boo-fucking-hoo. With over 200,000 Twitter followers and a second season of her own show on MTV, it's stupid, and frankly insulting, that this girl is still insisting on calling herself a "nerd." But she's not the only one to do so. CNN has a story about the evolution of the "MTV nerd," using Lee as the embodiment of this. More »
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• Detmar Blow on Alexander McQueen: "Money changed him and then drugs changed him. I remember reading of how he had flown his boyfriend somewhere for £130,000. What did Issie get? Some clothes. I find that quite shocking."

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According to the latest Best of Craigslist, stack-nookie is a recurring dream for many. If only it were just a dream. More »
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Although: The Expendables did beat Scott Pilgrim at the box office. Still, she has a point. But it's tough to tell whether she thinks this is a good thing or bad thing. More »
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In a new video for "Please Don't Leave Me," (the second clip for the same song), Pink plays a "gorgeous giantess" whose suitors literally don't measure up. They're all small. And worse: Dull. More »
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Are geeks and feminists allies or enemies? One feminist geek tackles the question head-on with her praise of a Lord of the Rings heroine — but geekdom has more to offer than its (few) female characters. More »
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"He may be bit of a geek," a recent Cosmo piece begins, "but the guy you've always thought of as 'just a friend' could be the best boyfriend you've ever had." Or, you know, he could be a total jackass. More »
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Everyone and their mother, brother, sister, grandma, family dog, pen pal, mailman, paperboy, and Great Aunt Helen is talking about how excited they are to see Star Trek this weekend. Everyone, it seems, except me. More »
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The folks at Wired have compiled a list of the most annoying habits of geeky spouses, and, in a bit of bad news for the majority of our commenters, "punning" takes the number one spot. More »
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Three words: Star Trek Corset. [BoingBoing] More »
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Combine the thrills of conquering Level One of Super Mario Bros. and, um, knitting, and you've got The Mario Scarf Blog, in which Cassie chronicles her "extreme-geek knitting" project: a woolen tapestry depicting the entire first level of the iconic video game, a project equal in scope to the Bayeux Tapestry. No word on whether further levels will follow. Or what she plans to do with it. But, hey, we're all about goals! [Boing Boing via Craft] More »
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Good news! Jezebel won "Best Group Weblog" and "Best New Weblog" at the Bloggies at SXSW today. Whee! Is it any surprise that a recent study by the Pew Internet Project has found that girls and young women are the most prolific web users? The Times of London reports that "blogging growth among teenagers is almost entirely fuelled by girls", who are described as a new breed of "super-communicators." 70% of American girls between the ages of 15 and 17 have blogs, websites, MySpace and Facebook pages — compared to 57% of boys the same age. In an article a few weeks ago, the New York Times called teenage girls "cyberpioneers." Nicole Dominguez, 13, designs free icons, layouts and "glitters" for Web and MySpace pages. "Most guys don't have patience for this kind of thing," she told the paper. "It's really hard." The image of the computer geek as a male? Dead and buried! More »
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"Men are like eggs: They must hatch or go bad." So began a story by writer Laura Nolan in the Times of London earlier this month, titled "Where Have All The Men Gone?" "We have an overload of man-boys — which leaves a generation of single, thirtysomething women who are their natural mates bewildered," Nolan noted, adding that she has to constantly read stories by scientists urging women not to wait to have kids and not to get caught up in their careers: "I want to point out that I work to eat, and that earning a salary funds the social life needed to meet new people." By the time a woman's thirties roll around, she went on, the good men are taken and the ones who are left are neurotic commitment-phobes with weird issues. No doubt many women would agree with her, but not many men! In fact, today, William Leith responds to Nolan's article thusly: "How can you blame men for doing what they are genetically programmed to do? I would never go around blaming women for following their specific biological imperatives." More »
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Would you rather text someone than talk to them face to face? Then you might have technology overload, which means you engage in addictive behavior towards technological devices According to John O'Neill, the director of addictions services at the Menninger Clinic, "I think [technology overload] shares some of the same components as people who become addicted to alcohol and drugs in that we start to see that someone cannot really put it down and cannot stop the use of it even when there are some consequences." So what are the symptoms of this life-ruining addiction? O'Neill tells Reuters: "Using text messages, email and voice mail when face-to-face interaction would be more appropriate, or limiting time with friends and family to tend to your email, return phone calls or to surf the Internet." Hmm, by those rubrics, 90% of our friends are incurably-addicted to their sweet, sweet tech. More »
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With so many special-interest dating sites around that focus on everything from ethnicity to bank balance, it's no wonder that the geeks have created a "safe space" for themselves to hook up online. Sweet On Geeks—"a dating space where gray matters," whatever that means—was created for sci fi enthusiasts and Comic Con attendees who are in need of "a bully-free zone where people can come and fly their geek flag as high as they want to," says co-founder Joyce Dales."Instead of just trying to hide their nerdiness, they can just celebrate it." [ABC News] More »
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