Nerdtown, USA

Massachusetts nerdery, in a photograph. Spotted at the JP Licks in Harvard Square.

Only in Nerdtown: passive-aggressive communication with your neighbors.... via wifi network names.

We're in the middle of the MIThenge: for a few afternoons in late January and in November, the sun shines straight down the 825' Infinite Corridor. Learn more here.

Science journalist Carl Zimmer is speaking at Harvard on Tuesday, December 13th about his new book Science Ink, photographs of science-related tattoos accompanied by brief and illuminating essays. Full details here.

The MetaLAB at Harvard's having another open event this Thursday, October 6th:

[...]a series of curatorial experiments, ranging from an archive of ephemeral Cold War films to a mysterious hanging aluminum tube to a collection of participatory stickers that guide journeys across the Harvard campus.

Tony Maws, chef of Craigie on Main, blames punk-ass MIT kids for stealing a liquid nitrogen cylinder from behind the restaurant. Details.

The periodic table menu at the Miracle of Science Bar and Grill, in Cambridge.

I particularly love this because it actually is somewhat periodic, unlike many tables described as such. I guess when you're a few blocks away from MIT, you want to get that right.

QR code graffiti, spotted in Kendall Square, Cambridge.

Nice use of the subjunctive.

"Making a High-Tech Mecca": Boston Globe article on Cambridge's Kendall Square.

Read the whole thing here.

"Keyboard Cat has a posse," at MIT, of course.