A geek is not a nerd. And vice versa. Unless, of course, they are. A portrait of the author as a young nerd When I was a kid, I wore thick black glasses, long pants that were too short with formal ...

Geeks are a nice species of creature. Cutely dressed, delicate, fragile, softly spoken to the point of mutism. Yet, they have managed to colonize the collective imagination of an entire generation.

Despite the increased popularity of geek culture and the ubiquity of computers, the geek's close cousin, the nerd, still suffers from a negative stereotype in popular culture, according to new ...