Geek & Nerd Online Resources

Nerdy and Geeky Enough Yet?

I don't know about you but I'm proud of who I am. And I ain't no str8 guy. Electricity is good, broadband is like air, BASIC was my first second language, and life runs of batteries.

Ready, set, glow!

misc. kewl shopping

Let's get to the heart of the matter up front: places to buy hip, nerdy stuff:
  Nerd Approved
  I Want One of Those
  Ubergizmo
  Gearlog
  Oh Gizmo
  perpetual kid
  coolest-gadgets.com
  NerdyShirts
With those unpleasant details out of the way once and for all, let's resume with our regularly scheduled program, now under way...

slashdot

The day begins and ends with slashdot. The granddaddy of all nerd sites or as they so aptly put it, "News For Nerds. Stuff That Matters." /. belongs at the top of your list of bookmarks if you want to keep your propeller beanie spinning at full speed. A site popular enough that being "slashdotted" often results in the linked site going down under the increased traffic load.

Engadget

Neither you nor I have the time or the connections to gather such a aggregate of gadget news each and every day. And even if we did, nobody would chime in with their two cents worth like the readers do at Engadget.

Gizmodo

If ya liked engadget, yer gonna like Gizmodo too. The bookends of high tech press release. Twin founts of technie news. The yip and yap of every geek's daily media intake. Read 'em both and be better for it laddie/lassie.

Wired

After wetting one's appetite with engadget and slashdot, augment your diet with a spoonful of longer pieces interspersed with timely tidbits. Columnists, real columnists like Bruce Schneier of Blowfish fame. If you like the magazine you're gonna luv the web site.

Instructables

Roll up your sleeves and let's get dirty. Quit reading about it and do it. Or at least read what others are doing. Projects. Homebrewed projects. With pictures and sometimes vague how-to's.

hack a day

After you outgrow instructables you'll want to step up to hack a day. i don't even pretend to understand half of what's talked about but ya gotta respect what folks are doing in their spare time.

Make Magazine

Now we're getting serious. This is some hard core geek sh*t here mah man. I can smell the solder now. Honestly, this rag intimidates me. But then again, I ain't no wires'n'pliers kinda guy. Software's my thing. Bit twiddler. 1's and 0's myself. But I still buy make.

O'Reilly

When you need a book on a subject and Idiot's Guide and Dummy just won't do, reach for O'Reilly. The ones with the woodcut animals on the cover. The web site is a mighty fine resource too.

ThinkGeek

Ready to shop? Looking for something to buy me for my birthday (or no good reason at all)? Look no further. ThinkGeek is the place. Look and tell me if you disagree. I never get enough of these folks.