Last year’s #1 Top Sexy Geek, Veronica Belmont (official site).
Okay, so I’m opening up nominations one day later than usual, but like 2005, ‘06 and ‘07 I’ll be posting the Top Ten Sexy Geeks of 2009 on December 20, 2008. You read that right: I’m pulling a Forbes Web Celeb date switcharoo and making 2008′s winners holders of the “Top Ten Sexy Geek 2009″ title. It makes sense when you think about it. So now — the always-surprising, sexy geek blush inducing, Laughing Squid server-smokin’ list is back for its *fourth* year in a row.
Seen a hottie execute some heart-pounding tech-fu? Have you been admiring a builder, scaler or web/phone app babe you feel is unsung for their mad code skillz and nerdy sex appeal? Heard of a sexpot who speaks all the romance languages (you know the ones), built their site from the ground up, or is lurking like an evil mastermind behind a badass startup or tech blog? I do personally handpick the list, but I base it on *your* nominations every year. Now’s the time to let me know: violet at tinynibbles dot com — or leave suggestions in the comments (I approve anons, yo). I do all the research, but any links you send along help. Criteria:
Not nerdalicious enuf:
* Celebrities, especially Hollywood ones and pointless vlogstars.
* Chicks who pose in bikinis with video game themed accessories (sorry Girls of Nerdcore — though I do love my geek-flavored cheesecake).
* Models and actors who talk the talk but don’t walk the walk.
* Anyone I have had sex with. Sorry! (Okay, I was only sorry once. But it was *after* I made the list, okay?!)
* Babes, studs or porn peeps with “geek” and “nerd” plastered all over their paysites, with nothing to back it up (sorry hot Justine Jolie).
* People who are cute, but no one seems to know why they have geek cred.
Also disqualified: anyone who’s already been on this list in a previous year.
Lube up your browser and nominate anyone who is:
* Smart, nerdy and HOT.
* Has done something really amazing this year in tech, and you just totally realized is also irresistibly sexy.
* Someone known for being hot, but has hardcore geek cred that no one seems to notice.
* The total Unsung Hottie in your dev group.
* Tech bloggers or vloggers you just want to point at and go, OMG hw4t!
* You’ll notice I’ve had a cyberlawyer on the list every year; think outside the blog- and vlogosphere to uncover the fierce and delicious people who support, fuel and participate in Internet culture.
* I keep the list gender balanced, but all genders and LGBT noms are especially encouraged. I also strive for racial diversity, partly because I’m sick of going to all these tech parties full of rich white people.
And, as always — single or not, it’s all in fun. One year I had a hot couple on the list!
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Also, it’s Timoni Grone, not Grove – sorry!
Joanne Colan of rocketboom.com
I would second nominations for:
Daniel Burka, Digg/Pownce
Jane McGonigal, game designer
Tantek Çelik, a runner-up previously :)
I would add:
Joelle Reeder:
Design Moxie & Author of The IT Girl’s Guide to Blogging, spreading the info around with a drink in hand.
The dynamic couple of Kevin & Coley:
Kevin Cheng, design/comics/games – http://kevnull.com/ – what’s not to love?
Coley Wopperer – designer – http://coley.tumblr.com/
Or, Greg Trefry and Mattia Romeo. They’re 2 of the co-founders of the Come Out & Play Festival for street and location-based games. Both are also game designers and Mattia is a sweet programmer to boot.
Ooooh, you have to pick Nate Silver of http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/ fame. He’s a stats nerd and super cute. Timely!
http://www.newsweek.com/id/140469
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Silver
Also, so far 3 of the 6 Pownce team members have made the list in past years, so I’ll nominate those who haven’t made it yet. Daniel Burka – lead designer at Digg and partner at silverorange. Mike Malone – developer of the Pownce iPhone app and code blogger. Ron Gorodetzky – sysadmin for Digg and Pownce.
Sarah Williams, Director of Spatial Information Design Lab at Columbia, coder of cool locative media projects, MIT alum, awesome laugh, and freckles! Here’s a start: http://www.spatialinformationdesignlab.org/people.php?id=18
They’re my friends (sprinkled with a few acquaintances), but they’re all pretty awesome:
- Ben Ward, Yahoo/Fire Eagle
- Cal Henderson, Flickr
- Daniel Burka, Digg
- Jane McGonigal, IFTF, game designer
- Jessy Cowan-Sharp, NASA
- Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel, pro-gamer
- Matt Hancher, NASA
- Mike Malone, Six Apart
- Morgan Romine, Frag Dolls, pro-gamer
- Natalie Villalobos, purveyor of awesome
- Robbie Schingler, NASA
- Sascha Tietz, NASA
- Tantek Çelik, Microformats
- Timoni Grove, web designer
- Tom Coates, Yahoo/Fire Eagle
(email me for associated links/photos)
been MIA lately, but joyce kim is a cutie with brains to boot. gigaom show http://revision3.com/gigaom/about/ cyberlawyer and startup gal.
I nominate my super hot, super awesome friend, Jessy Cowan-Sharp, co-founder of NASA’s colab and hacker extraordinaire. Not geeky enough to know what the heck she does exactly, but am smart enough to know she’s smokin’ hot! Oh yeah, she’s a Choza founder, too.
Her websites are
http://www.chozadelmundo.com
http://www.quaternio.net
Cheri
I nominate my super hot, super awesome friend, Jessy Cowan-Sharp, co-founder of NASA’s colab and hacker extraordinaire. Not geeky enough to know what the heck she does exactly, but am smart enough to know she’s smokin’ hot! Oh yeah, she’s a Choza founder, too.
Her websites are
http://www.chozadelmundo.com
http://www.quaternio.net
Cheri
P.S. Do not mock my blog-in-progress, please. Some of us non-hackers take a little longer to figure out wordpress. It’s less than a week old, but it exists, by golly. Do, however, feel free to comment or advise. :)
I cant believe nobody nominated Joanne Colan of rocketboom.com yet but just in case not — she’s sweet!
I will reciprocate and nominate Tara Brown: http://tarabrown.pbwiki.com/ Even though last year’s winner Sean Bonner took her off the proverbial market she still rocks the entire left coast.
And don’t forget O.G. Interweb female creative tour de force Emi Guner, who started with The Parker Quintuplets in 1995 (http://boingboing.net/emi.html), recently retired her amazing “Letters To Marc Jacobs” http://letterstomarcjacobs.blogspot.com/, but goes strong with two new ones, “Letters From The End Consumer” http://lftec.blogspot.com/ and “Run With E” http://runwithe.blogspot.com/. Mother of three with two dedicated fan blogs? Winner, hands down.
ian
chris kelty, author of the new book “two bits: the cultural significance of free software” and one-man mega force attempting to wrestle an entire discipline toward open publishing, open courseware materials, collaboration and communication through blogging and other web tools.
I will of course cheer for my favourite perthian http://kitta.net Ms Nikita Kashner :)
Jay Smooth – illdoctrine.com
I nominate zadi diaz from epicfu (epic-fu.com)
I also nominate me (I know very shameless). I am digital content manager and dj for the coolest radio station in the midwest 88nine radiomilwaukee. I am also a music geek.
http://radiomilwaukee.org/showdj.asp?DJID=36759
Limor of ladyada.net. EE geek, hacker extraordinaire, and runs her own business. Oh, and she’s darn cute.
I’ll nominate Danica McKellar, author of “Kiss my Math”:
http://www.amazon.com/Kiss-My-Math-Showing-Pre-Algebra/dp/1594630496
wil wheaton, for sure!
and how bought the angry video game nerd? cmon, he is so cute! :)
I’m no web-celeb, but can I nominate myself? –I’m just a web designer, internet nerd, blogger & crazy cat lady ..and im pretty hawt! ;)
@LSF, fine then if Brynn can’t, I’ll second the nomination for Chris Messina :-P
I second the nomination for Charlie Jane. Smart, funny, talented, and a ringer for Kerry Walsh. Encyclopedic sci-fi knowledge lends her great geek cred. (Plus she co-edited She’s Such a Geek.)
I also nominate Brad Fidlr. Vlogger, podcaster, new media experimenter, Ph.D candidate, and a definite geek for researching and finding the exact location of the first ARPANET transmission and organizing a 40th anniversary celebration of the birth of the Internet (in Oct 2009). He’s also hilarious and v. v. hawt.
I would nominate my partner, who is the sexiest neuroscientist on the planet with a big luscious brain and a cute butt too, but I am greedy and won’t share.
Charlie Jane Anders of io9.com. Hottest tranny blogger in the Gawker empire, for shizzle.
Brynn, I’m not sure nominating your own boyfriend is quite right. Strikes me as a little sad, franky.
I’ll second Tara Brown’s nomination of Chris Messina (http://factoryjoe.com). He has an incredible vision of the future of social networking (see his DiSo project, and work with the OpenID and OAuth communities). Plus, he is adorable!
Im not sure if she counts (and I dont think she has been in this in previous years) but I would like to put in a nomination for Georgette.
Relevant Link:
http://gcrush.tumblr.com/post/62920628/preparing-for-geek-night-tonight-what-do-you
would cosplayers such as francesca dani, alisakiss, yaya, etc be also out of the running?
Glenn Carroll. He works for Google on a special project creating a computational model of the human cortex.
Here is a link for Elisabeth Rappe
http://www.cinematical.com/blogger-elisabeth-rappe/
Chris Messina. His work in the open source community is amazing and he is adorably cute.
Michael S. Galpert. One of the head dudes at Aviary.com. Making an online app that kicks some serious ass on Photoshop is no small feat. Plus he has an awesome collection of hats and the cutest smile.
Ian Rogers. CEO of Topspin. Former head of Yahoo! Music. Making waves in the music industry and can ride a skateboard and text on his BBerry at the same time.
I’ve to nominate Joanna Rutkowska. My favorite sexy Hacker who not only was able to run unsigned code in Vista, but also in 2008 injected unnoticable code into the XEN hypervisor.
A picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eecue/206241643/
I nominate the main chick from the “Nrrd Grrl” video by MC chris
Not a nomination but a language question. Is “noms” used as shorthand for “nominations”, or as shorthand for “Nom nom noms” in the best LOLcats tradition?
Or, with the wondrous flexibility that makes English such a delicious language, both at once?
As for nominations, is Rachel Maddow geeky enough? Nom nom nom! (Surely she gets extra points for Princess Bride references and for rubbing her thighs together on national television every time she hears the word “infrastructure”.)
I have to second Julienne @ 8.
Felicia Day, creator/star of the Guild. So yummy, and so geeky.
Felicia Day! Gotta back up my girl Ariel too :)
I nominate Qathi Hart — system architect, photographer extraordinaire, and punk grrl hottie: http://www.qathi.com/
Dr. Angela Belcher. She came to SBCC and talked wearing a high cut skirt and knee high boots. Super strong woman, has a kid, creating objects that can self assemble themselves (mix two gooey substances together and out pops a digital watch!) Sadly her online presence consists mainly of photos of her that are not very flattering.
I nominate Courtney Trouble who owns NoFauxxx.Com and recently modernized her site with a social network and a content management system to bring community and tech-savvyness to queer porn. She’s the owner, the designer, the pornographer, and a performer… She’s **so** underexposed!!!
Kevin Rose & Alex Albrecht!! *girlish sigh*
Oh, & Tristan Taormino. duh.
Dana Guthrie Martin, http://mygorgeoussomewhere.org/ . See http://mygorgeoussomewhere.org/2008/12/06/this-is-personal/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/mygorgeoussomewhere/ …
1. Bre Pettis!!! http://brepettis.com/
2. Alice Stribling http://www.alicestribling.com/
3. Dacia Ray http://www.wakingvixen.com/
4. Kambri Crews http://www.kambricrews.com/weblog.html
And in the “he might be too famous” category:
KEITH OLBERMANN – http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/
Stephanie Pakrul
Related links:
http://www.topnotchthemes.com/ (her drupal oriented design co)
http://stephthegeek.tv/ (her voyeur/lifelog site)
http://stephthegeek.com (personal website)
Oh – entered too soon, add:
Wil Wheaton (blogger and geek extraordinaire)
Joss Whedon (where would be without Dr. Horrible?)
Neil Patrick Harris (is there a viral video that he is not in???) and uber sexy man.
I have to say Felicia Day – she was part of 2 of the hottest webisodes this year and managed to broker a deal with MS that allows her to maintain creative control and creative license while providing a larger platform (Xbox Live and MSN) for her show, The Guild. Plus, she’s so damn cute!
I’d also vote for Sandeeph Parikh – director/producer of Legend of Neil and star of The Guild. He has also brokered an amazing deal for his webisodes to be broadcast on Comedy Central. And he is sexy (at least I think so!)
Ariel Waldman http://arielwaldman.com/
Cupcake Camp and NASA, enough said.
Dr. Kevin Grazier, the science advisor to Battlestar Galactica: http://vimeo.com/967763
(he’s the redhead)
Jeri Ellsworth – a better hacker than I am and cuter too.
1. Amber MacArthur, Net at Night, and CommandN
2. Morgan Webb
3. Violet Blue
Those are my favorites, no one else matters
I don’t know if they’ve been on the list before, but I would nominate Elisabeth Rappe, Blair Butler and Morgan Webb.
Qais (pronounced CASE) Fulton: one of my writers at Ectomo; a writer for the Weekly Geek (and podcastmember); concept furniture maker; artist; fashionisto; runway model; Destructoid and Tomopop writer; content writer for Xbox Live, is a secret adonis.
The proof is in the pudding: http://www.modelmayhem.com/pics.php?id=494114
Here are my nominations:
Helen Madden, of the “Heat Flash” podcast
http://heatflash.libsyn.com
Philippa Ballantine, of the “Erotica a la Carte” podcast:
http://www.eroticaalacarte.com
Mia of the “I Want your Sex” podcast:
http://www.miaontop.com/
Can you tell I like podcasts?
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