Obsessive Nerds for $1,000, Alex
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Jeopardy! giant Ken Jennings' guided tour of the world of trivia freaks
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The latest in molecular-research technology shows the nerdy glamor of nitty-gritty lab life.
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A smart investor pays $1.25 billion for Orbitz. So what's Travelzoo worth?
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Blog: According to a blogged report, the WoW fan site Wowhead has been sold for $1 million.
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Nothing says I love you -- and your crippling mood disorder -- better than a bio-geeky necklace made of the molecules of key neurotransmitters and hormones. In Bodyhack.
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He's just a really smart computer geek. Why does this man have the movie industry running scared?
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The technogadgetry retailer is a nutty professor.
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Geek chic of years gone by isn't so cool today, as technology races on.
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Our editors have picked their favorite components and have created a $30,000 computer that you can win! Entering is a breeze.
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Tycho:   The foe revealed, Armadeaddon is now almost complete.  Monday will see the promised epilogue, so at this point you have very nearly survived the ordeal.  We have endeavored these past weeks to reward the true "enthusiast," that man or woman who, brow heavy, has faced such cruel abuse at our hand for the last seven years.  It is apparently our policy to honor such dedication one every decade.    Since it was announced a couple days ago, the revelation that MS would be actively courting the hardcore boardgame player is something I've thought about almost constantly.  It may be that you weren't aware there was such a thing as a hardcore player of boardgames if your last experience with the context was playing Sorry! with your sister when you were eight.  Things have progressed.   There's a million experiences in this space I could use to lure you in, but one company in particular - Days of Wonder has already decided to make electronic variants of their tabletop crack, so they occupy a twilight space between the worlds.  I hope they see an opportunity to take their (already completed!) games over to the 360, or that Microsoft offers them a locked case containing an unspecified amount of untraceable U.S. Currency, because I'd love to see this prescient move by MS turn into a new era.   Days of Wonder makes a game called Shadows Over Camelot that could quickly become a dangerous obsession, obscuring biological realities with a single-minded focus on grails.  Well, grail I guess.  There's just the one.    But it's a completely cooperative boardgame, so every player is working toward the same goals - fighting back invasions, questing, all of it.  Except there might be a traitor in the group, determined by a hidden draw, who tries to derail the effort.  He's not always there, but the potentiality of that nefarious force can create unbelievable social tension.    The gaming table's fixed coordinate in space is its asset and its obstacle - managing space and time is actually the primary challenge of any gaming group, as opposed to banishing necromancers, though that also ranks up there.  Boardgames are so rich in design that, when one of these gets dropped in front of them on Live, I think many gamers will be shocked at their sophistication.    My thumbs hurt.  (CW)TB out.
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Suited executive by day, raving hipster by night? You might need one of these to facilitate the charade. From Crave, CNET's new gadgets blog.
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The holidays may mean food and decorating to some, but for the geek crowd, they're just another excuse to buy gadgets. Here's a collection of cool ones. By Xeni Jardin.
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Beaverton-based Digimarc Corp. and the federal government have entered into an ID authentication pilot project the company said is worth about $1 million.
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I plead guilty to past transgressions. So, call me a hypocrite if you will. I don't care anymore. I refuse to get stuck in the past because the present and the near future is fun. Indulge if you will in recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images experienced as intrusive and distressing. The obsession with Microsoft in Open Software communities is excessive and unreasonable and a product of the mind. My only hope is that such thoughts, impulses, and, or images can be expunged by logic or reasoning, which is contrary to the notions in the psychiatric community. read more
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Comment is free: Mark Lawson: Anyone stupid enough to do a computer's bidding is not losing civil liberties so much as their marbles.
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By Moises, Christian  Darrin Piotrowski started Rent-A-Nerd in a one-bedroom apartment in November 1997 after discovering computer users couldn't find knowledgeable and honest computer consultants in the New Orleans area.
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Zach Brooks pocketed $1,000 this month blogging about the cheap lunches he discovers around midtown Manhattan ($10 or less, preferably greasy, and if he's lucky, served from a truck).