nerd/dork/geek/dweeb diagram

From GreatWhiteSnark

Have you  been unfairly and inaccurately labeled "dorks," only to then exhaustively explain the differences among the three to a more-than-skeptical offender, I say: You're welcome. This nerd/dork/geek/dweeb Venn diagram should save you a lot of time and frustration in the future.

Nerd Dork Geek Venn Diagram

Via Matthew at Sed Contra, who will see you at the intersection of Blogging and Things that Have Latin Names.

Epic Understanding Fail Fail

The UnGooglable Man

FAIL - Chat beats logic and information on Web

How does facebook improve the world again?
Consumerist - It's official WEB FAIL-- playing Farmville and tagging friends in photos has become more popular than actually trying to find things on the internet, as a new report shows Facebook edged out Google as the most-visited site on the internet last week.

According to Hitwise, Facebook accounted for 7.07% of all web traffic for the week ending March 13.

That barely edges out Google's 7.03%.

This is huge news for Facebook, who only a year ago accounted for around 2% of U.S. web traffic and an EPIC fail for the age of the internet...

Read full at Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Young, Dumb, Full Of Risk For ID Theft

WashingtonPost - A new study finds that the young and the feckless are the most at risk for identity theft. 18-24 year olds are more likely to be victimized because they don't check their accounts frequently or thoroughly enough. You can beat the statistics, though, if 1 in 20 times you're tempted to check your friend's Facebook updates you instead scrutinize your account statements.  (Thanks to Ben Popken Consumerist!)

The Secret Origin of Windows

SlashDot -

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"Windows has been so dominant for so long that it's easy to forget Windows 1.0 was vaporware, mocked both outside and inside of Microsoft — and that its immediate successors were considered stopgaps until OS/2 was everywhere.

Tandy Trower, the product manager who finally got Windows 1.0 out the door a quarter century ago, has written a memoir of the experience. (He thought being assigned the much-maligned project was Microsoft's fiendish way of trying to get rid of him.) The story involves such still-significant figures as Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Ray Ozzie, and Nathan Myhrvold; Trower left Microsoft only in November of 2009 after 28 years with the company."

A lot of eyes in the sky turning to e-waste

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #447

Google Responds To Privacy Concerns With Unsettlingly Specific Apology

Acknowledging that Google hasn't always been open about how it mines the roughly 800 terabytes of personal data it has gathered since 1998, Schmidt apologized to users— particularly the 1,237,948 who take daily medication to combat anxiety—for causing any unnecessary distress, and he expressed regret—especially to Patricia Fort, a single mother taking care of Jordan, Sam, and Rebecca, ages 3, 7, and 9—for not doing more to ensure that private information remains private.