Geek events I'm planning
I've been thinking about geek events and geek culture recently quite a lot. I'm a self described geek enjoy being around other geeks. And it seems I'm not the only one. I was flicking through my...
View ArticleGreat justification for the future of Digital Britain
Victor Keegan from the Guardian, pins down a great argument for the TV license rise. Here's some of the best bits. The BBC needs to be cut down to size because it uses the certainty of its licence fee...
View ArticleOh no… here comes the (so called) geek squad
Oh yes if you've ever been to Best Buy in America, you can't help but notice the geek squad signs everywhere. Need a hand installing your DSL router, putting in memory, fixing your wireless, going to...
View ArticleGeeks talk sexy….
Excellent photo by hoyvinmayvin – cc: by-nc-sa Sex and geeks don’t fit together or compute, most would say. However the truth may be the total opposite. This quarter we take a brave step into the...
View ArticleGeeks talk sexy…. *new date* (now on the 19th November)
Excellent photo by hoyvinmayvin – cc: by-nc-sa Sex and geeks don’t fit together or compute, most would say. However the truth may be the total opposite. This quarter we take a brave step into the...
View ArticleClaudia Winkleman hosts Film 2010, hold back the sexist stereotypes
From Den of Geek’s Claudia Winkleman vs the People. Claudia Winkleman is a sexy woman. Some male nerds are uncomfortable around sexy women. Some women certainly don’t like or trust other sexy women. A...
View ArticleGeeks talks sexy: What does sex have to do with geeks?
So finally we did it, yes the geeks talked sexy at Madlab. @smanthabail, @hwayoung and myself have been planning this series of talks for a while now and after the last change of dates we managed to...
View ArticleGeeks Talk Sexy – The Other Half of the Population
Photo credit: hoyvinmayvin The description says: Geeks Talk Sexy is back – bigger and better! And it certainly will be bigger and much better. So we’re kicking off with part 2 of the sexygeek series....
View ArticleGeeks talk sexy part 4: The dynamics of relationships
Photo credit – virginsuicides Its that time again… Yes geeks talk sexy time… Sign up here. In this Geeks talk sexy, we will de-construct what it means to be in a relationship. In a frank, geeky and...
View ArticleGeeks talk sexy part4: The dynamics of relationships
Ed and Alice live together and will soon marry. She decides she’d like more sexual experiences before settling down with the man she loves, so she convinces Ed they should “see other people” (as in,...
View ArticleFlirting versus pick-up. Where to begin?
Since the moment the concept of doing a flirting and pickup workshop was kicked about, there’s been a silent backlash from different quarters… One of the people most vocal has been @Maznu who’s been...
View ArticleWhat about sex?
Found in Linux Magazine, the start almost sounds like one of tiny nibbles podcasts. “What about Sex?” the woman sitting across from me at the dinner table asked. I felt my face start to flush. She was...
View ArticleGeeky&Sexy… The politics of first time dating
This is Thursday in my busy social week The politics of paying on the first date? View more presentations from Ian Forrester Following Tuesday’s talk at Preston Social, I was looking forward to deep...
View ArticleWe are not all…⸮
I retweeted this… OH: How can you spot an extroverted engineer? They look at *your* shoes when they talk. Ever since people have been getting at me for re-tweeting it. But then again I didn’t get to...
View ArticleLouis Theroux shows the geeks have won, for how long?
I saw this piece from the independent and thought it was fun to read. Mainly because I thought throughout is the geeks have won. But what is it that makes him quite so alluring? After all, Louis is...
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