But while the doll's main objective is busting computer nerd stereotypes, there is one that seems to have slipped through the cracks: those spectacles.
The Beltway gala, also known as the "nerd prom, " sees Washington's newsmakers stroll a red carpet that's also filled with press and stars from across entertainment.
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The jazz-nerd d.j. and musician Davis McAlary (Steve Zahn) became charming rather than irritating, and there was a wry self-awareness all around about New Orleans parochialism.
The whole thing added up to a bad weekend for Madson, as the controversy spread from comedy-nerd hangouts like A Special Thing to mainstream blogs.
O'Brien's routine was well-received, as he closed the night by riffing on the "nerd prom" theme, pointing out how much the event resembled a high school cafeteria.
Producer del Toro and director Peter Ramsey talk about the new DreamWorks Animation Studios computer-generated movie Rise of the Guardians in the exclusive interview from Nerd HQ below.
Founded in 1990 by Angle, fellow MIT grad Helen Greiner and MIT professor Rodney Brooks, the company was initially more of a nerd dream than a workable business plan.
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But perhaps the scoffers are wrong and the president is an ultra nerd, and was referring to the Jedi battle mind meld mentioned in several Star Wars novels.
In the movie he comes across as a narrowly focused computer nerd, yet in real life he was a jock, of sorts, too captain of his high school fencing team.
Valedictorians are sometimes almost sheepish about where they plan to go school, afraid to get labeled a nerd or worse, come across as intellectually arrogant for trumpeting an acceptance.
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He is basically just a big nerd who has an incredible amount of data stuck in his head about what each congressional district is like in terms of its voters.
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When there's a possibility of a love scene between Matt and Mavis, everyone in the theater who ever had a nerd impulse is rooting for Matt to make it happen.
There, Schmidt, the socially challenged and romantically frustrated nerd, and Jenko, the smooth-operating but knuckleheaded jock, try to solve the case while also trying to break out of their confining self-images.
The self-proclaimed nerd, like many Star Wars fans, has been profoundly affected by the franchise as he explains in this short conversation with Richard Bacon on BBC Radio 5 Live.
Adam Sandler plays Barry Egan, a frightened fellow in a bright-blue suit, a nerd who sells merchandise out of a San Fernando Valley warehouse and stammers his way through the simplest encounters.
But if the latest rumor is true, our former nerd rage energy will be converted to nerd glee: Scott may be teaming up with the original screenwriter of Blade Runner, Hampton Fancher.
Administrators can use "nerd knobs" in the product's management system to control what may be searched, and shape results around characteristics such as when or literally where, geographically speaking, a document was created.
Mr Lavery's defence solicitor argued his client was "a trainspotter, a loner, an anorak, a nerd with no friends" and if he was put beside an airport "he would take pictures of planes".
The network's best known example of a nerd -- a fellow nerd girl, no less -- is "Daria, " the animated spinoff of "Beavis and Butt-Head, " which started in 1997 and lasted for five seasons.
The nerd's spastic movements, childlike laugh, checked-out eyes as she codes or writes or thinks are the symptoms of a person obsessed with work, a person unconscious of herself and the impression she's making.
Then Woo, because girls who look like Jada and run around in nighties can't meet men, gets fixed up on a blind date with that most hee-larious of all blind dates -- the clumsy nerd.
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It will take a while to get around these web pages and you've got to be a bit of nerd and know the jargon, but it lists all the mistakes McKittrick has made in various papers.
As befits so many superheroes-in-waiting, Peter is bullied, and, if we never entirely shake off the sense that we are witnessing a complex, two-hundred-million-dollar revenge of the nerd, that also is a defining strain of the genre.
At the risk of sounding like the nerd who cried wolf, I ask you to close your eyes and imagine what cheap technology and clever entrepreneurs around the world--not just in Silicon Valley--might do to your business model.
Michael Kitces, an adviser and publisher of a financial-planning industry blog called Nerd's Eye View, says not having a clearly stated account minimum creates an awkward situation for both a current client making a referral and a prospect.
Consider the self-selecting nature of posts with emoticons ones containing smiley faces seem sure to disproportionately feature information about kitties and soccer practices, while ones containing frowns are sure to be heavy on teenage nerd girls beefing with their boyfriends.
Yes, I'm a highly qualified nerd with a degree in astronautical engineering from a military academy, and am retired from a couple of decades of flying mostly front line fighter planes and parachuting with various nationalities when the opportunity presented itself.
And any audio nerd worth his or her weight in vinyl will tell you that most devices are designed well enough by now that your cans and the bitrate of your tracks are likelier to affect sound quality than the hardware.
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