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Everybody Knows One — Nominate a Geek of the Week!
There is one group that has been neglected for long enough, and I'm seriously itching to learn about all you geeks and friends of geeks who peruse our pages. Don't be shy — nominate a Geek of the Week!
Tell us why your fave geek deserves the title, whether she has named all her gadgets after characters in Doctor Who, if you've caught him on tape while he ritualistically prepares for online Gears of War matches, or maybe she has choreographed an interpretive dance to the BSG theme song.
Geek Of The Week: Emma Watson aka Hermione
For some geeks, this week is all about the countdown to the fifth movie release in one of the most geeky series we've ever seen: Harry Potter. While fans await the release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by sipping on Butterbeer and wondering if the chemistry between Harry, Hermione and Ron will be strong as ever, I'm wondering what's next for Emma Watson, the adorable, witty and fun female in the group. This weekend's Parade Magazine featured a cover story, We’re all so grown-up!, which proved the actress and her counterparts are more than ready for adult roles and perfectly happy to acknowledge their eternal geek cred.
Geeks Of The Week: Hanson
You really just don't hear enough about the Hanson brothers these days, save for their appearance on VH1 One Hit Wonders list and the occasional award show. In fact, I didn't even realize how much I'd missed ironically singing their "MMMBop" song (or maybe I wasn't being ironic) with my girlfriends until I read their answers to the Switched Questionnaire about technology.
Apparently, the bros are grown up, have a new sound, self-released album and the youngest of the trio Zac Hanson - pictured at left - is almost a geek.
Geeks Of The Week: Amerie And Kelly Rowland
Yesterday I gave the parking attendant near work my business card so I could get on the list to get a parking space (yes, San Francisco is that crowded) and he looked at me and said "geeksugar? You can't be geeksugar, you look like a movie star." In his defense, I was wearing giant sunglasses and he's one of those really sweet old men.
Old School Windows 95 Video: Starring Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry
Apparently before Jennifer Aniston was known for carrying her beloved BlackBerry around with her everywhere she goes, she had a brief stint as a promo girl for Microsoft. Molly found this hilarious promotional instructional Windows 95 video starring Aniston and Matthew Perry, which must have been made soon after Friends first aired. It features Aniston and Perry taking a tour of Bill Gates' office, or what Perry calls "Ground Zero of personal computing - the nerve center of the world's biggest software company."
Geek of the Week: Christian Nold
Christian Nold, a London-based artist describes technology as such: "It is not the neutral, rational instrument that it is portrayed as; instead it appears to be a heady and unstable mix of authoritarian control and anarchic mischief." His project, which is called "emotional mapping" or "bio mapping," encourages volunteers to wear GPS devices and lie detector sensors while exploring various neighborhoods in cities across the world. This system is said to detect people's emotions as the data is combined with their accounts of what they felt and saw.
Geek of the Week: Tyson Mao
Wonder where Will Smith picked up his impressive Rubik's Cube skills in The Pursuit of Happyness? Thanks to one of the world's top competitive Rubik's Cube champions Tyson Mao, Smith was able to learn how to master the mind-boggling cube for his leading role.
When Mao's younger brother Toby taught him how to solve the cube in July 2003, it was only a matter of time before Mao could solve the puzzle faster then his brother...that is in less than two minutes- blindfolded of course.
Geek of the Week: Jack McBrayer from "30 Rock"
BuzzSugar recently got the chance to interview the lovable Jack McBrayer, who plays the sweet and innocent NBC page Kenneth "30 Rock," and because I utterly adore him and the show, I asked her to scope out his geek cred. Turns out, he's much less geeky than his on TV persona but he is pretty tech savvy.
In her interview, BuzzSugar asked Jack if he ever Googles himself, which in my opinion is one of the best questions to ask a potential geek.
Battlestar Galactica Stars Get Geeky
Battlestar Galactica stars Katee Sackhoff and Jamie Bamber showed up at the Grand Slam SciFi Summit last weekend and gave my new favorite magazine, Geeky Monthly, a little extra face time. I know I've said it before, but Battlestar Galactica has a lot of street cred as a geeky, smart and fun Sci-fi show these days. In fact, it seems to attract non-geeks and geeks alike despite being about the end of the world and Cylons.
Geek of the Week: David Krumholtz from NUMB3RS
Cool cat David Krumholtz plays the part of mathematical genius Charlie Eppes on CBS' NUMB3RS. Eppes works as a professor of mathematics at a California technical university and helps his FBI agent brother Don Epps (played by Rob Morrow) solve crimes using math. His left-brained talents give him the ability to de-construct any complex or practical situation into a mathematical model.
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