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Cheese and Nerds

Is the IT guy more likely than average to get his fingers caught in the mousetrap? Wired magazine has asked its readers to vote on whether nerds like cheese more than most people. There's no way these results could possibly be objective, considering the magazine's readership, but so far the poll indicates that cheese, with all its enzymes and microbes, is more of a nerd thing. What's your verdict?

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In Videos: Food Commercials of the '80s, Nerd Cereals Edition

Posted by Robyn Lee, March 14, 2008 at 12:00 PM

Editor's note: This week, it's, like, omigawd, totally '80s for our daily In Videos segment. Big hair, breakdancing, and before-they-were-big celebrity commercial appearances to the max. So kick back your fat-laced high tops and take a chill pill. —The Serious Eats Team

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What better food tie-in could you have with popular icons of nerd-dom than artificially colored, diabetes-inducing breakfast cereal? You've got your Pac-Man Lucky Charms knock-off, your C3POs that look more like conjoined Cheerios than anything Star Wars related, and the pseudo-amorphous fruit-flavored blobs of Super Mario Bros. cereal.

Watch the crunchy, vitamin-enriched fun, after the jump.

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Post a Comment | Tagged: cereal, nerds, Nintendo, retro, Star Wars, video games, videos

Instant Coffee, Now With Lasers

Posted by Lia Bulaong, March 27, 2007 at 1:45 PM

Post a Comment | Tagged: coffee, lasers, nerds