If I had a lot of money to kill I would probably turn into Donna Hutchings and buy 2342398 rad X-Files collectibles. Apparently this picture shows 50% of her collection.
Even crazier nerd collections after the jump.

Philly was well represented on television on late on Monday night. Santo Gold (Real name Santi White, from Philadelphia) performed live on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and The Roots performed on The Late Show with David Letterman. Pretty cool, huh?

A new ” X-Files 2: I Want To Believe” production photo was released today, and it’s got the fans talking! Only click through if you want the movie spoiled for you (unless it’s just a big misinformation campaign).

This tattoo is so bad and so NSFW that I can’t show it above the jump.
Alex wrote to me, and said “the bet was high card draw best 2 out of 3 winner got to pick, but had to pay for the losers tattoo.” Click to find out what the winner picked for him, but […]

The record industry is crumbling. The RIAA is sueing people for illegally downloading music. College kids don’t care about things like that, though. They just wanna be able to excercise their god-given right to download illegal Dave Matthews Band cds in peace.
At Villanova University, students illegally downloading stuff has gotten so out of hand that […]

Whoa, i was trying to show a coworker Japan’s favorite Holy Poop Shinto cellphone strap charm when i came across this wonderful R2-D2 soy sauce dispenser. this is definitely a must have! They even have other astromech droid styles available along with star wars shampoo dispensers, doo-rags, key covers and more. God Praise Nippon! more […]

Amigurumi is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small stuffed animals and anthropomorphic creatures.
I found an etsy seller who makes awesome Star Wars Amigurumi. Keep reading for more, plus other nerdy arts and crafts.

FV pal “Tar” recently spent a few hard months building a beautiful treehouse at Longwood Gardens in Kennet Square PA. I went to czech it out on friday. The work was done by Forever Young Treehouses which is a pretty sweet company you should look into if you dig this sort of thing. More pics […]

The LARP I went to this weekend is an Asian-themed game, a kind of mashup of Eastern fantasy elements, with Samurai and Ninjas and dragons and demons. It’s really fun, and it’s nice to get away from the Tolkienesque fantasy cliches found so often in gaming. I tried to take pictures for you guys, […]

There’s a lot going on and the weather is properly spring-like.  Too bad I’ll be in Washington D.C. Anyway, on to the fun stuff…

So yeah. I’m a LARPer. I’ve only been into it for a year or so, so I’m no huge expert, but I’m pretty into it and I think it’s a fun way to spend a weekend. This weekend I’m going to NPC* a game my friend helps to run. It’s awesome and involves Samurai and […]

I’ve had this graphic novel since i was a kid and totally forgot about it till i recently noticed it on my bookshelf. After flipping through it quickly i noticed some things that really caught my eye, besides the flip cartoons i drew in the margins. Star Wars 2: World of Fire, presented by […]

Teeth on trucks make me really happy. I took this picture a block away from where I work. It made my day.

Every week, Young, Dumb and Full of Beer will highlight a different beer. Sometimes it will highlight a couple of beers. Usually they will be local, since Philly has some of the best breweries in the country, but sometimes I will throw in a beer from elsewhere. It will be nerdy, but hopefully approachable, even […]

This weekend is the 5th annual Bent Festival in NYC. May 1st it’s in Minneapolis. I wish I could go to this, but I’m going LARPing out of town instead (for serious).
The Bent Festival is an annual art and music festival celebrating DIY electronics, hardware hacking, and circuit bending. Each year we invite artists […]

Have you been watching Battlestar Galactica? If so, you will notice that they show a beautiful and multi-colored space, much like NASA’s Hubble photographs. I took a screengrab, above, to illustrate the point. But is that how space would really look to the human eye, as suggested by BSG? This bugged me to no end, […]

Apparently some awesomely nerdy weirdoes in Wales have started a Jedi Church. Well Arwell Wynn Hughes, aka Drunken Vader was getting a bit impatient waiting for the homily to begin. Mind you he had jusssssst a little to drink and was wearing a GARBAGE BAG. So he decided to take the Force into his own […]

Pitchforkmedia is known for being a sort of indie rock tastemaker. It’s usually not known for it’s heavy metal coverage. That said, the site’s Show No Mercy column is consistantly good. Today they posted an interview with the Philly sludge-metal band Javelina (say it ha-va-LEE-na). Pitchfork give props Javelina’s self titled debut album on Translation Loss Records. Javelina big […]

I always thought that PA Governor Ed Rendell seemed like a pretty cool guy but a recent Huffington Post article (posted before Hillary Clinton’s “big” win in Pennsylvania) shows the ex mayor of Philadelphia acting like a salty old baby to a small group of college kids.

Hey, so there’s this awesome thing called Rockbox. It’s open-source firmware for your mp3 player. They support Apple, Archos, Cowon, iriver, Olympus, SanDisk, and Toshiba mp3 players. And they are AWESOME. I bought an iAudio x5 a while back and while I was really happy with the hardware, I wasn’t happy with the firmware. I […]