Word: geek
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...don’t we give up this whole blogging thing and just start a website cataloguing the crackpot websites started by Harvard students. (Remember Gossip Geek? Or Yard Report? We don't either.) Apparently there’s money in anything you can buy a domain name...
...District—overlapped at Harvard Law School by one year. Obama graduated in 1991 and Davis in 1993. At Harvard, Davis was studious and serious, with an addiction to politics, according to freshman roommate Joshua M. Levisohn ’90. “He was a government geek of the highest order,” Levisohn said. “He loved everything about government and covered politics incessantly.” During the 1986 midterm election Davis knew about every congressional race and every candidate, Levisohn said. “Some people are obsessed by baseball...
...Dollhouse is morally nebulous. Sometimes we're rooting for Ballard to bust the Dollhouse, sometimes we're rooting for Echo's handlers and protectors in the organization that pimps her out. (Harry Lennix is sympathetic as her conflicted bodyguard, and Fran Kranz amusingly skeevy as the in-house tech geek.) Pulling this off means getting the audience to connect with a lead who is not, in the usual sense, a person, which may be more than Echo--or Dushku--can manage...
...modernize to meet today's reality." Said he: "To my way of thinking, we must do both, and quickly." In the blueprint, Steele clearly borrows key elements of Obama's groundbreaking tactic for generating record levels of donations with innovative social-networking tools. He calls himself a "technology geek," and already posted on the RNC's main website is his "Network for the Future," which features links to Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, LinkedIn and blip.tv. At the very least, Steele knows his party needs to play catch...
...Macworld conference, typically hosted by Steve Jobs, takes place around the same time every year as CES.) Another highlight of the 2008 CES - at least for TV watchers - was a surprise appearance by a few of the stars of ABC's Lost, a show as synonymous with techie geek culture as, say, Battlestar Galactica. But just in case TV stars and Bill Gates' exit weren't enough to qualify as CES wow factor, there was still enough impressive gadgetry to create the kind of buzz the trade show is made for. Case in point: Panasonic's droolworthy 150-inch plasma...