2004-01-11 04:00:00 PDT New Haven, Conn.-- Eliezer Yudkowsky gives me the Singularitarian handshake. "You take a person's hand and let go a billion years later," he says. It's Saturday night in ...

That's, right, the once non-gambling-do-gooders (the Nerd Council -- Rizk and Hood) have lined up an official sponsor, Percentagesports.com, to fund prizes for the top techies -- $300 for the ...

— -- It started with the 1984 film Revenge of the Nerds. Then came geek chic. Now, "brogrammers" — computer programmers with frat house sensibilities — are hitting the scene. And the ...

In what is the ultimate revenge of the nerds, programmers are renaming classic art titles. Once upon a time, arty types and computer geeks were separate tribes, bonded perhaps occasionally by a ...

The Stress Of Being A Computer Programmer Is Literally Driving Many Of Them Crazy. ... New Relic software engineer Nick Floyd has begun writing and speaking about something he calls Nerd Life Balance.

Though coder Jeff Atwood thinks coding isn't for non-computer geeks, we can think of a lot of reasons normals should learn computer language. Atwood, on his blog Coding Horror, miffed by the ...

Meet the Nerd Guys, John Young and Randy Schmidt, computer geeks who came up with beef jerky business cards and merit badges for the tech-saavy and just plain goofy.