...with a catchy pop-music beat.

Crazy but true.

This guy Peter Rakos, created an entire rendering engine/technique in Excel.  I'm not sure it is quite up to the requirements of Halo 3, but it is still a nifty example of how versatile Excel can be.

Check out the video.

And you can download the excel files yourself and try it out.

Well naturally if we have the International "Talk Like a Pirate Day" then obviously we need the "Annual Day of the Ninja". 

December 5th is the Day of the Ninja. Plague your co-workers with ninja-ness and wear a ninja mask to work! Got the day off? Run wild in the streets, or dress like a ninja at the mall! Just show the world that YOU ARE NINJA!

December 5 - Annual Day of the Ninja

Now go flip out and wail on guitars!!  Be Awesome!!

The blog that pins me to the wall with its fine darts of nerd lightning.

If you are a geek or a nerd or afflicted with some similar...affliction, you are encouraged, nay, required to go read the Rands in Repose.

How I came this far without reading it is a mystery.  Frankly I  blame all the rest of you for not sending me a link to the blog sooner than now.  How dare you hide such witty wittiness from me.

Don't let it happen again!

recommended entries:

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2007/11/11/the_nerd_handbook.html

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2003/07/10/nadd.html

The Internet Oracle

Lookit how old this is... a .cgi extension. It's like uncovering a rock and finding a goldmine.

A sample:

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

> What is the biggest misconseption about anime?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} That it's good.
}
} You owe the Oracle the collected works of Tintin and his many
} adventures on DVD.

Comedic gold.

How did I miss this all those years? Here's the wikipedia article: [linky]

and just so you know, you shouldn't really ask the question: "How much wood can a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood."  It's verbotten.

This is amazing. [The Gathering]

It has been coined as "NerdStock" [linky]

These kids come from all over Europe and even Japan to spend four days playing World of Warcraft, Counter-Strike, and Quake until they pass out in a pool of their own face-grease from exhaustion.

This might be the single largest gathering of nerds this side of the MIT campus.