The Popular Pursuit Of Library Sex

According to the latest Best of Craigslist, stack-nookie is a recurring dream for many. If only it were just a dream.
Casting Call For "Nerd Girls" And/Or Aspiring Reality-TV Stars
Nerd Girls is currently casting "smart, sexy, and tech savvy" ladies for what promises to be a very-subtle pilot. Interested? If you're willing to embody a vision of both "pink heels" and "pocket protectors," here are the awkward details:
Strip Spelling Bees: Where Nerd Meets Burlesque
Up in Canada, they're having strip spelling bees. The rules: you can keep your underwear on if you want, no booing, and no audience photography. "I didn't expect that so many participants would get completely naked." [The Globe and Mail]
The Semi-Brilliance Of My Life As Liz
The best part of My Life As Liz isn't its protagonist. Nor is it the the array of cliches about high school life, complete with evil blondes and school-wide talent shows. It's sidekicks Taylor and Sully.
The Cougar Cough-Drop: Surprisingly Icky
A bizarre, cougar-themed Halls ad is pissing people off and weirding others out:
Danticat & Diaz On Writing, Justice, And Being A "Nerd Of Color"
At their New Yorker Festival reading on Friday, Junot Diaz and recent MacArthur Genius Grant winner Edwidge Danticat talked about writing with kids, being marginalized as a "nerd of color," and why it's so hard to change the world.
Let's Have A Moratorium On "Geek Chic" Trend Pieces, Okay?
Today, another piece on "geeks getting the girls," nerds being "hot" and general nonsense that equates "intelligence" to "nerd" and acts like a dame giving a man in specs a tumble is some new trend. And it's infuriating:
4 Tips For Understanding "Girl Geeks"
Being a geek is so hip it's now passe, but girl geeks are still getting a fair amount of press. The problem: we're being woefully misunderstood.
I'm Not Handing In My Geek Card, I'm Just Letting It Rest For A Second
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.
When Loving A Geek Means Loving Their Annoying Habits
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.
Nerds Vs. Geeks
Geek chic may be in, but nerds are still uncool, says Lori Kendall, researcher from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Soft In The Head
Here at Jezebel, we have a fondness for cloth organs, and are glad to see it's a type of crafting that's really taking off.
Snow White Gets Sexualized • Virtual Girlfriend Invented
Being A Loser In High School: Why Does It Seem To Damage Dudes So Much Worse Than Girls?
I've decided I like it better when college students write the weekly "Modern Love" columns in the NY Times because college is when you still remember high school, which is when everyone got so goddamned warped re: fucking. (Bonus: they're not about loveless marriages, about which Tolstoy was maybe full of shit.)…
Open Source Boob Project: The True Story Of One Epic Day Nerds Groped Free
When people first started imploring us to weigh in on the Open Source Boob Project we had this scary image of a website featuring a picture of a pair of fake tits that registered computer programmers could modify and reshape and manipulate with nanotechnology or whatever else until the resultant pair of tits reflected…
Getting down to some dirty Geek lovin'.
Over on Craiglist, our new best-friend-if-we-only-knew-who-she-was, posts the delightful top 15 reasons why geeks and nerds make the best boyfriends
