More geek then thou? A sample of the several hundred questions that await you (no cheating!)

] I HAVE...
] programmed a calculator in math class
] studied a language on my own
] always hated mainstream
] dated a geek
] married a geek
] done homework that wasn't required
] done homework for somebody else
] looked forward to dissecting a frog, pig, etc.
] looked forward to doing my taxes
] attended public academic lectures on my own
] studied an artificial language (i.e. Esperanto, Klingon)
] created an artificial language
] filed the Census as my persona
] worn 2 watches at the same time

Woof! I scored "44.3787% - Major Geek" and I'm PROUD!

Laughing Boy

[My results: 22.48521% - Geek
A bit low....but at least there is now empirical evidence that I am in fact a geek. And I feel truely geeky because I can think of something that should have gotten me geek points that wasn't on the list - owning the "Real Genius" DVD and reading "Godel, Escher, Bach":) - Nano]

The Geek Test

] March 16, 2880, is the day the asteroid known as 1950 DA,
] a huge rock two-thirds of a mile in diameter, is due to
] swing so close to Earth it could slam into the Atlantic
] Ocean at 38,000 miles per hour.

UCSC - Press Release

] This fall, the Canadian school is offering a class for
] fourth-year students titled "Computer Viruses and
] Malware," in which students will write and test their own
] viruses. The move has touched off a wave of criticism
] within the antivirus community.

College plans virus-writing course | CNET News.com

] You no longer expect your grandchildren to live the same
] lives that you did, and your lives are very different
] from your parents lives. Today theres an axiom that the
] only constant is change. But what people dont recognize
] is that the world itself has changed because the greater
] change is accelerating. So our whole concept of what it
] means to be human is going to be changing, and it is
] going to be merging with our technology.

In these slow times a reminder of the sort of thinking that drove the technology community 10 years ago is work having. This is a sort interview with Ray Kurzweil.

[IP] Understanding the Accelerating Rate of Change

] A set of four glass ramps positioned in a square clearly
] show water travelling up each of them before it pours off
] the top, only to start again at the bottom of the next
] ramp.
]
] It is a sight which defies logic, and has become probably
] the most memorable image of this year's show.
]
] Mr Dyson says his inspiration was a drawing by the Dutch
] artist MC Escher (he of Gothic palaces where soldiers are
] eternally walking upstairs, and of patterns where birds
] turn into fish).

Ummmm....I want one of these

BBC NEWS | UK | How does Dyson make water go uphill?

] TORONTO (AP) -- A cow in Alberta has been diagnosed with
] mad cow disease, Canadian officials announced Tuesday in
] what may be the first known case involving cattle born in
] North America.

Nashville - Tennessean.com NATION WORLD NEWS

] A new global study concludes that 90 percent of all large
] fishes have disappeared from the world's oceans in the
] past half century, the devastating result of industrial
] fishing.
]
] The study, which took 10 years to complete and was
] published in the international journal Nature this week,
] paints a grim picture of the Earth's current populations
] of such species as sharks, swordfish, tuna and marlin.
]
] The authors used data going back 47 years from nine
] oceanic and four continental shelf systems, ranging from
] the tropics to the Antarctic. Whether off the coast of
] Newfoundland, Canada, or in the Gulf of Thailand, the
] findings were dire, according to the authors.
]
] "I think the point is there is nowhere left in the ocean
] not overfished," said Ransom Myers, a fisheries biologist
] at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Hrm....disturbing, ecologically - Nano

CNN.com - Study: Only 10 percent of big ocean fish remain - May. 14, 2003

] Diagnoses of autism have nearly doubled in the last four
] years among children in California, state officials
] reported yesterday. They said they could not explain the
] increase.

Wired had a thing about this awhile ago ... all the hackers must
be breeding, finally.

[Bahahahaha....I love bucy's commment. This is actually interesting....I haven't done much research into autism, but it is interesting that the rise in California cases is significant enough to be news worthy - Nano]

Autism Diagnoses Double in California

Get a real time map of traffic jams and accidents in metro atlanta.

Georgia Traffic

] We weren't really worried about security of the system.
] We were worried about the reputation of the system,"
] Baker said.

These people are morons

Blackboard Gets Gag Order Against Smart-Card Hackers (TechNews.com)