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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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.

• What do you mean today’s our anniversary?
• Can we not talk to each other tonight? I’d rather just TWEET
• You shouldn’t have, this diamond is way to big!
• Are you sure you’ve had enough to drink?
• Don’t stop for directions, I’m sure you’ll be able to figure out how to get there.
• It’s a sale, but we can always catch the next one
• Angel, pull my finger
• You so hot when you had too much to drink
• I love being stalked by creepy guys
• You follow me, I follow you – [the exception]

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

More pictures can be found on Bizzarro Comic

Names. Everyone has one, most people have a vague idea what their own means, but few give them much more thought. The study of names is called onomastics, a field which touches on linguistics, history, anthropology, pyschology, sociology, philology and much more.

My name, Reagen, does not appear to have any meaning. You can search here to find the meaning and origin of your name.

Celebrities’ real names, many of them were not born with the name they currently have, below all is revealed

Celebrity Real Names

Reagen Allen

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

Well, it feels quite normal. A virtual cup of coffee would have sent waves via Twitter, even though coffee is not my cup of tea.

Well for those of you that have not subscribed to Twitter monthly updates via email, see email below.

From: Biz Stone
Hi there,

In the early days of Twitter, I used to send out short updates just to keep everyone in the loop since so much was happening. It’s been a while, but you signed up for short, monthly updates from Twitter so we thought it was time to start sharing more information. We’ve had quite a year. If you haven’t visited in a while, we’d like to invite you to come have a look at http://twitter.com — we’ve been busy!

Growing Up
In the course of a year, registered Twitter accounts have grown more than 1,500% and our team has grown 500%. Recently, we hired our 140th employee! His name is Aaron and he’s an engineer focused on building internal tools to help promote productivity, communication, and support within our company. We celebrated with a little dance party.

Features of Note
Some features of note that we released over the course of a year include the ability to create lists, quickly spread information with a retweet button, and an easier way to activate your mobile phone to work with Twitter over SMS. We also built a new mobile web site that looks and works much better on smart phones.

Feeling Inspired
By working together during critical times when others needed help, sharing important information that otherwise might not make the news, and inventing new and interesting ways to use Twitter, you’ve shown us that Twitter is more than a triumph of technology — it is a triumph of humanity. Projects like Fledgling and Hope140 were inspired by you.

Chirp!
While there may only be 140 full-time employees working at the Twitter offices, there are thousands of dedicated platform developers who have now created more than 70,000 registered Twitter applications creating variety and utility for all of us. We’ll be gathering this spring at Chirp, our first ever official Twitter developer conference

Thanks,
Biz Stone, Co-founder (@Biz)
Twitter, Inc.

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Innovation is a new way of doing something or “new stuff that is made useful”.

On the 31st of March 2010 I will be attending a conference hosted by New Trends and Outlook. With speakers like Marlon Parker and Dave Duarte the conference will enable guest to not only think out of the box, but to throw the box away.

In many fields, such as the arts, economics and technology, something new must be substantially different to be innovative. In economics the change must increase value, customer value, or producer value.

The goal of innovation is positive change, to make someone or something better. Innovation leading to increased productivity is the fundamental source of increasing wealth in an economy.

I am looking forward to attend the conference. For those Cape Town folks interested in attending, the organizers can be reached on newoutlooks@gmail.com

In closing, Bill Gates said: “Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.”

Innovation – The stakes are much higher than below.

“Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity – not a threat”