Beans, beans, the musical…candy?

What would you do with 288,000 jelly belly jelly beans? Besides eat them all in one glorious sitting… Well take 288,000 jelly belly jelly beans + 2460 frames + 1357 hours over 2 years = simply the most amazing thing… Read More »

Cardboard, more than corrugated.

Lazy days and wild imaginations can lead to the most amazing things. Here are two very different examples of what can be accomplished with a cardboard box and a lot of imagination.    

Smug As A Bug In A Rug (Or, Yes, The Mainstream Really Is Terrible)

(Preface Part 1: Before we begin, we would direct you all toward this piece published earlier in the week. Upon the author’s untimely death, we intend to memorialize him by publishing a collection of his works. That article as well… Read More »

Apparently Going to the Movies was ALWAYS Annoying – Halloween 1978

I was alerted to the existence of the following clip via FEARnet.com, a fine website devoted to every aspect of horror filmmaking. The clip marries what is claimed to be audio from a 1978 screening of John Carpenter’s “Halloween,” the… Read More »

Lady Nerd Puddle: Beauty Q&A

Welcome to our new nerdy beauty column! Oh you guys, it’s hard out there for a girl who doesn’t subscribe to societal norms but still wants to enhance her secondary sex characteristics (SCIENCE!) and we here at Nerd Puddle want… Read More »

Can Someone Explain Internet Sexism To Me?

Techland, the developer of recently released zombie survival game Dead Island, is just full of amusing fuckups these days. First, someone at the developer (or, possibly, publisher Deep Silver), issued a PC version of the game that was actually a… Read More »

I still want a hoverboard. But these will do.

Great Scott!!!! First it was a weird foreign commercial starring Doc Brown. link And now it’s little black boxes filled with metal glasses, pepsi throwback and another video that will make anyone long for the days of 1985. Apparently more… Read More »

LAWeekly Cites Nerd Puddle as Actual News Source. Internet laughs at stoopid bloggers all over again.

File under: “People Who Still Don’t Understand the Internet” – or – “Apple-tinis Ate My Research”: LA Weekly blogger Simone Wilson called us out in her Finkel-gate post on Tuesday. I’m not exactly sure that she’s trying to defend her… Read More »

Women for Sensible Armor (Nerd Feminism!)

I’ll come out and say it.  When given the choice, I tend to play lady characters in games.  There’s no psychosexual reasoning behind it, other than that lady characters tend to have cooler powers, or at the very least, are… Read More »

How A Girl Named Alyssa Stepped on The Internet’s Last Nerve

Let’s get this out of the way, right up front. I don’t like Magic: The Gathering either. I don’t share any of my friends’ affinity for it, I find it mostly boring, and when it is played in my presence,… Read More »