In the 1984 movie “Revenge of the Nerds” society was introduced to a sassy group of nerds that fought the system by being just a bit smarter than the jocks that inhabited fictitious Adams College.

Needless to say, nerds and geeks have taken over the world. I guess you could attribute that to Bob Gates. Calling oneself a geek is said more proudly now, 24 years after we were introduced to the nerds who had a hard struggle to fight the fraternities and sororities that were prejudiced against those folks who were just a bit swifter when it came to mental prowess.

For geeks of 2008, there is a new language of binary code, social media, PHP coding and other computer language that has not only sparked trends but is a way of life.

Being a geek is cool.

Royal Pingdom has a list of pictures of graffiti that has been left about the globe that features the language and inscriptions of being a geek. And, as you know, graffiti isn’t vandalism, it’s street art. Some of the photos are extremely funny, but will have no meaning unless you understand the world of IT or the internet.

So, geeks are united in a language all their own and the small scribbled words and pictures that celebrate the life of geekdom. Geeks aren’t the socially inept folks memorialized in “Revenge of the Nerds” but are, indeed, running the world we live in.

And if you want to learn geekspeak you better get cracking so you know what these photos are talking about.

We live in a brave new world, campers.

From the outside, Emma Cahill looks like your average school girl.  She just turned 16 and attends St Mary’s Convent School in Worcester, England.  She is active in sports and has many friends, but there’s one thing different about Emma.  At 6′5, she is the tallest teenage girl in the UK.
Fortunately for Emma, her unusual […]

The New York Marathon ran this weekend.  Surprisingly, the winner was an American; in fact, Eritrea-born Meb Keflezighi is the first American citizen to win the marathon since 1982 (the year after I was born).  However, with an estimated 42,000 runners in the marathon this year, not all of them are hardcore professionals.  There are […]

It’s the world’s largest treehouse, and it is made of nothing but reclaimed, recycled, and reused materials.  God told Horace Burgess, of Crossville, Tennessee, to build a treehouse and promised that he’d never run out of materials.  Ten stories, 100 feet of height, and $12,500 in nails later, he still hasn’t ended up short of […]

In a real-life version of Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus,  two colossal beasts squared off in the Pacific Ocean near Queensland, Australia.  However, unlike the movie, this wasn’t a Mega Shark versus a Giant Octopus.  This was a Mega Shark versus a slightly smaller shark.  Like the movie, this fight to the finish was caught […]

It’s a deliciously creepy treat!  Made from your choice of milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, or a “human bone” blend of white and milk chocolate, these incredible-looking chocolate skulls are full-sized and made from an actual mold of a human skull.  You can order them from the Chocolate Skulls website.  While they’re pretty expensive […]

It’s quite possibly the greasiest random food item to ever sport an image of beloved Christmas character Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.  Sue Church, a woman in North Carolina, discovered her pork-chop Rudolph while cooking (or while eating, at least) and rushed over to her local television station to show off her weird, delicious discover.  I […]

It started out as a normal birthmark on the back of a 6-year-old girl.  Li Xiaoyuan, like most of us, had a little mole.  Unlike most of us, Li’s mole started growing.  Well, the mole didn’t, but the hair inside the mole did, and now she’s become the “cat girl” of Fengkai, China.  Poor little […]