Nerd Ink
No.
The “nerd tattoo” has officially begun to ground itself in our social culture. Now, a tattoo barer can be unfairly categorized and stereotyped as follows:
- a grizzled, mustachioed Harley Davidson enthusiast,
- a brave, freedom-defending armed serviceman,
- an artsy, but slightly depressed liberal arts student
- a drunk, whorish sorority chick, or
- computer scientist with a tech blog.
The nerd tattoo is typically drastically different from all other brands, usually consisting of a mathematical equation or some reference to a popular video game in the 80’s. I’m tired of these.
Here are some tattoos I’d like to see at the next BiMonScifiCon.
6 Future Projects in Google’s Arsenal
It was the year 2000, the early days of the Internets, and Google had easily rose above AskJeeves and AltaVista to become the adolescent nerd’s tool of choice for finding time-wasting Flash games and crappy Flash videos. As the adults took notice, Google’s publicly traded stock rose along with its popularity. And the web was happy for a brief moment. We were years away from inane youTube comments and inbox flooding lolcats. And then in 2002, Google got fancy. First came Google Labs, then Froogle. Then it was blogging, social networking, text messaging, mapping, and image searching. Suddenly Google became scary — like a tinted white van full of puppies and candy.
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