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Your wormhole to the geek multiverse, with occasionally updated news from the worlds of awesome.

"A Christmas Carol," Doctor Who Style!
Stardate 01/1/11

Happy New Year! My review of this year's wonderful Doctor Who Christmas Special, "A Christmas Carol," is now up on teh awesome 8 Days A Geek. </shamelessplug>

Slightly Better Than Watching Paint Dry...
Stardate 01/1/11

Does the idea of scanning through millions of slices of aerogel hunting tiny interstellar particles appeal to you? Stardust@home is the cure for what ails you. Bonus geek perk: co-authorship if you actually manage to find a needle in the nanofoam.

If You Seek SUZY
Stardate 12/30/10

Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Stephen Hawking are is just like Britney: autotuned, over-produced, and a genuine guilty pleasure! Symphony of Science offers catchy tunes without much sex appeal, but plenty of science appeal.

I'd Sooner Induct a Wookie...
Stardate 12/30/10

I'm kidding of course. Arguably the best of the franchise, "The Empire Strikes Back" was recently inducted into the National Film Registry, for its "enduring significance to American culture." Apology accepted, Captain Needa!

Hot gyrating bodies!
12/29/10

Or, in less provocative terms, "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies," Einstein's famous and remarkably easy to read paper. Take a walk down memory "train"...

And it's not luminiferous, aether.
12/29/10

While we're talking relativistically, check out this cool simulation of the Michelson-Morley experiment. Popcorn not provided in any observer frame of reference.

Bang, bang Maxwell's Silver...Demon?
12/29/10

And for one final foray into fundamental physics, how about this cool collection of Clerk Maxwell's contribution to the corpuscular conundrum?

Geek Culture Must Die?
12/28/10

Comedian Patton Oswalt muses on the future of geekdom for Wired.com.

Ludo Loves Veggies!
12/28/10

I just recently discovered Ludo's nerd-tastic but tragic EP, "Broken Bride." Apparently, they're vegetarians, too!