'I love nerds': For spellers, dorky's the new cool

Lauren Kirk had a hamburger in hand, a new friend by her side. On Monday afternoon, she was one of the cool kids.

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The most powerful people on the Internet don't work for Microsoft, Google or the government. Rather, they're a bunch of antisocial, foul-mouthed, clever nerds who congregate at a largely unknown Web site called 4chan.org.

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Nerds rejoice: October 29th will mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet. The Times of London includes a really cool, short video from Easynet covering the last 40 years of internet technology.

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Typical Nerd's Day -- One Woman's War Stories

I am a computer nerd, you know one of those people they hide in the back office that you love to hate. I've been at it for over 30 years, but there have been very few days that this article isn't typical of.

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Realizing Sudoku is incredibly boring, Swedish hacker Hans Andersson created a robot from a Lego Mindstorms NXT kit to solve the number puzzles for him.

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World of Warcraft: Plastic Surgeon.

A good amount of my close friends and I all play World of Warcraft but we have different tastes in what we like about the game. Everything ranging from what we like to do in the game, what classes we enjoy and what races we use.

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Clever schoolchildren can avoid being labelled "nerds" if they follow fashion and have a "fall guy" friend who is badly-behaved, new research has found.

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Matthew Applegate, aka Pixelh8, is a leading light of the "chiptune" scene - music made using vintage home computers.

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Growing up...

In life, we all have moments of uncertainty, self-doubt, insecurity, and general dislike about one or more of our inherited traits. Couple any of these with moronic high school, or even junior high moments and it's as if a bomb has gone off in your head.

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A few cosmic pings. And then a voice: "Space ... the final frontier."

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An Australian study into the sexual history of 185 students at the University of Sydney found male science "nerds" were the least likely to have had sexual intercourse.

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As a gay man, Eric McKinley felt disenfranchised by online dating service eHarmony's policy of matching only heterosexual couples.

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It may be typical of the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd to disparage a fellow countryman's memory of war from the comfort of mom's basement, but most Americans have the humility and gratitude to respect and learn from the memories of men who suffered on behalf of others.

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UNIVERSAL CITY, California -- It's the ultimate revenge of the nerds as product developers use their big brains to create sex machines that kick pleasure into overdrive.

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The Nerd Girls may not look like your stereotypical pocket-protector-loving misfits—their adviser, Karen Panetta, has a thing for pink heels—but they're part of a growing breed of young women who are claiming the nerd label for themselves.

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Here are the top 10 tech-related April Fools' jokes to play on friends and co-workers. The best geek pranks make a gadget or a co-worker's computer appear "broken." Watch with glee as the unsuspecting victim goes mental trying to figure it out.

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It's the relationship you spend more time on than any other. It has deepened even during the past few years. When things go wrong, you become enraged and tearful and attack inanimate objects—but you're willing to spend hours making things right.

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If you've ever been in a videogame shop - and if you're reading this I'll hazard a bet you have - you'll be familiar with the cliches.

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Am I lost without my computer? Wouldn't you be, too? Or am alone in my Apple Crack addiction?

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A fantasy plague that accidentally ran amok in the Internet's most popular game world, populated by nine million flesh-and-blood players, may help scientists predict the impact of genuine epidemics, according to a study released Tuesday.

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Obi-Wan Kenobi is not happy. Having recently arrived on Planet Earth to enjoy a breather from intergalactic fisticuffs, the venerable sage is quietly remonstrating with a volunteer outside the San Diego Convention Centre.

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Mary Bucholtz, a linguist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been working on the question for the last 12 years.

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This, the 38th running of the Comic-con, is all (well, a lot) about Star Wars. Thirtieth anniversary and all.

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This nerd might be the nerdiest nerd who ever nerded it up on the small screen. He's a geek. He's a dweeb. He's a pest. He's the cheese loving next door neighbor to the Winslow family. He's Steve Urkel- bow down before his excellency.

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Taunted as a 'nerd,' sailor drives across USA and burns down man's home

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