Let’s face it, geeks are cool. Geeks have invented every fashion trend currently popular in the US and elsewhere. Take haircuts, for example. John Denver, clearly a geek, immortalized his haircut so that now folks around the world are immitating his style. DON’T LIE and tell me you haven’t seen this cut on the uber-cool walking oh so elitely down the streets of Manhattan. Geeks also invented the wake up and go look, that is, we shower infrequently, and therefore the natural grease in our hair looks very much like styling gel. Brad Pitt and others have adapted this look, but the uber cool have first dubbed it “the walk of shame haircut”, and it has since graduated into just a “dew.”

Then there are shirts. All geeks know that ironing is completely unnecessary. After all, in the future, our shirts will iron themselves. Walking out of the house with utterly wrinkled shirts was first pioneered by nerds and geeks, and don’t you deny it. But now the uber-cool have coopted this for themselves, calling the pre-wrinkled shirts “distressed.”

The vintage look that all the east-village wanna-bees are raving about can trace its origins to geek. After all, us geeks were the undesiring recipients of “hand-me-downs,” all those nastily out of date products of clothing our mothers thought we’d look good in. Now, those “hand-me-downs” are worth more than your Apple II E.

Now, you know the inventor of the suddenly popular scrolling name belt was just some geek sitting in his dorm room thinking, “Wouldn’t it be cool to have a belt that scrolled like a message board!” And, final proof that nerds and geeks have finally taken over the world: women praise us on their bodies!

And for the funniest web site you ever read, click here. Please do it. It will make your day.

Here’s a picture of my neighbor Andres (click to enlarge). While we were sitting in our stuffy offices or apartments yesterday, he was taking a panoramic view of the northern hemisphere. He’s the type of guy who goes skydiving the same way we go to the grocery store, like in the morning before he goes to work.

And finally, Lauren McLaughlin created her own anti-war song. It’s eerie and haunting, and available here.

Now, get back to work.