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Shaq Scrabble, Girlfriends And ‘Star Wars’ Are What’s Hot Today In Geek Culture

Friday August 28, 2009 3:40 PM

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20 AWESOME EXAMPLES OF SCI-FI ORIGAMI

We love these well-crafted, lovingly-detailed papercraft versions of all our favorite sci-fi stuff.  Since we have had live-action, 2-D and CG animated “Star Wars,” how about a paper animated movie?  “Clone Wars” was the worst thing to ever grace the silver screen. Someone has to do better than that.

Jedi Origami


SHAQ WANTS TO BE A GREAT SCRABBLE PLAYER, TOO

We wonder how Shaq would do at origami. In his new reality show, Shaquille O’Neill challenges other athletes at their sports. Last night he challenged Jimmy Kimmel to a game of Scrabble. (Sure, that’s a sport.) How many Q’s are in Shaqalackin? Just one, right?



ROBOTS PROGRAMMED TO KISS AWKWARDLY

The lip smack-a-lackin’ engineers at National Taiwan University are hard at work creating robots who kiss. Well, they’re creating robots who kiss like two people with serious back and neck injuries. Still, it probably feels better than kissing animatronic Lincoln in the Hall of Presidents. So, that’s something they have going for them.



CHART EXPLAINS WHY YOU DON’T HAVE A GIRLFRIEND

There can be many reasons why someone doesn’t have a girlfriend.  They could be shy around girls or only average looking. However, as we can see in this chart, there’s one big reason why many nerds don’t have girlfriends. Of course, the money you use for WoW subscription fees and Blizzcon tickets could be used towards dates… lol. (Image from Graph Jam)

song-chart-memes-have-girlfriend

COLLEGE HUMOR CREATES NEW PHOTOSHOP FILTERS

Mouse over these pictures to see CH’s Photoshop filters in action.

JAR JAR BINKS REVIEWS “STAR WARS: EPISODE 1″ ON AMAZON

Amazon put a review written by Jar Jar on their site in what we assume is a viral campaign.

ANGRY LITTLE GIRL DRAWN AS STAR WARS CHARACTER

An angry, chubby little girl gets drawn by a caricature artist as someone from “Star Wars.” Can you guess who?

This article was written by Geoffrey Golden, who got his PhD in Shaqology.

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