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Geek:

The definition of geek has changed considerably over time, and there is no longer a definitive meaning. The terms nerd, gimp, dweeb, dork, and spod have similar meanings as geek, but many choose to identify different connotations amongst these terms, although the differences are disputed. Julie Smith defined a geek as “a bright young man turned inward, poorly socialized, who felt so little kinship with his own planet that he routinely traveled to the ones invented by his favorite authors, who thought of that secret, dreamy place his computer took him to ascyberspace—somewhere exciting, a place more real than his own life, a land he could conquer, not a drab teenager’s room in his parents’ house. Geeks in suits clothing” is phrase which has been used for IT technical stars which also have knowledge about business needs.

Other definitions include:

• A derogatory reference to a person obsessed with intellectual pursuits for their own sake, who is also deficient in most other human attributes so as to impair the person’s smooth operation within society
• A person who is interested in technology, especially computing and new media. Geeks are adept with computers, and use the term hacker in a positive way, though not all are hackers themselves
• A person who has chosen concentration rather than conformity; one who passionately pursues skill (especially technical skill) and imagination, not mainstream social acceptance.

Nerd:

Nerd is a term often bearing a derogatory connotation or stereotype, that refers to a person who passionately pursues intellectual activities,esoteric knowledge, or other obscure interests that are age-inappropriate rather than engaging in more social or popular activities. Therefore, a nerd is often excluded from physical activity and considered a loner by peers, or will tend to associate with like-minded people.

The term “geek” is often used inter-changeably with the word “nerd,” although the two terms have subtle differences in meaning.

Dork:

Well lets just leave it at ” Confused by really cool stuff”

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BAD – [B]log [A]ction [D]ay

Is blogging good for your brain? The chances of me dying in a blog accident is almost non existent. However, I don’t simply just blog instead of skydiving or surfing.. There is benefits to Blogging and your brain.

Whenever I engage with someone online, I would normally look for a URL to their blog. It’s somewhat disappointing to see that the person has not created a blog yet. Having a blog saves a tree and you don’t need to eat a beaver.

Benefits to being BAD – Having a Blog Action Day is…

1. Blogs can promote analytical and critical thinking
2. Blogging can be a powerful creator of creative, intuitive and associational thinking.
3. Blogs promote analogical thinking.
4. Blogging is a powerful medium of increasing access and exposure to quality information
5. Blogging combines the best of solitary reflection and social interaction, including Micro-Blogging

Lastly, there are blogs and there are…well, blogs. The best of blogs are rich in ideas and promote active exchange and critique. Rather than creating closed communities of like-minded troglodytes, these best blogs foster conversation, interactions with other blogs and other information sources, and invite feedback from their readers. Posts can form “threads” or links to other Web materials where readers can examine primary source material or articles that offer competing ideas and views. Blogs that follow this format are far from simple substitutes for television or video games. In fact, they are an ideal format for promoting critical and analytical thinking.

Seeing the last beaver I had tasted so awful and the fact that I hate paper cuts… I will strive to continue to save trees by blogging.

The Photo in the post is the “Pulitzer Prize” winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan famine. The picture depicts a famine stricken child crawling towards a United Nations food camp, located a kilometre away.

The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat it. This picture shocked the whole world. No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer Kevin Carter who left the place as soon as the photograph was taken

On 27 July 1994 Carter drove to the Braamfonteinspruit river, near the Field and Study Centre, an area where he used to play as a child, and took his own life by taping one end of a hose to his pickup truck’s exhaust pipe and running the other end to the passenger-side window.

He died of carbon monoxide poisoning at the age of 33. Portions of Carter’s suicide note read:

“I am depressed … without phone … money for rent … money for child support … money for debts … money!!! … I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain … of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners…I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky.

Read more here

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes:  we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.  ~Charles Caleb Colton

A Korean man has married a body pillow with a Japanese anime girl drawn on it. Not sure who is smiling more, the guy or the pillow.

The girl depicted on the newlywed pillow is Fate Testarossa from the anime Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha

This isn’t the first time someone has married an anime-inspired object. In November 2009, a Japanese man married his virtual girlfriend from a Nintendo DS romance simulator in Gwam.

An online petition, with over 500 signatures, calls on the Japanese government to officially recognize people’s right to marry two-dimensional characters. I guess they have no interest in the 3D as they like to live in a 2 Dimensional world

Pictures can be found on the blog Topless Robot