Love is in the air, everywhere you look around... Nerds in love, and you know we love it. Geeks are back, baby! And if your pardner gets hilariously wonky jargon-jokes like this, you may have just found your special someone. In the "why we love The City department:" The annotated notebook Dinah Sanders lost? Found! And turning up the cute dial past eleven, congratulations to Neekole and Brandon on their first anniversary! more ›

Ever wondered how those Googlers spent their "20%" time? Playing with obscene amounts of silly putty, apparently. Susan Mernit points to a blogger's tale of terror at 30,000 feet, the mainstream media coverage they received, and the nasty responses from commenters at an Alaskan Airlines IP address. Speaking of blogger relations, PR pro G.A. Marken drops by Silicon Valley Watcher to guest post about what bloggers mean to the media landscape from a marketing perspective. more ›

Ian over at WULAD must have smoked some Ombuds before deconstructing some political graffiti. Dinah Sanders explains her votes in the election -- before a new TV campaign from Herr Governator can get to her. In a mood to protest, but not to get off the couch? The UK brings us two technologies to let folks tele-protest via SMS. more ›

SFist found Bloggers Without Borders through the Tsunami Help blog. Later we ran into Dinah Sanders, AKA Metagrrrl, who explained the mission behind the site in detail, and we offered to help in any way we could. She arranged a get together with spokesman and techspert Jonas M. Luster over 'puters to chat. The conversation ranged from floating IP's that can be used to route around IP blacklists and protect a blogger's anonymity and location, through the sociology of C.W. Mills, the legendary 1985 documentary Shoah to Warren Ellis classic sci-fi graphic novel series Transmetropolitan. more ›