Nerds discover exercise, eye it suspiciously

Jackson West — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:20:00 PDT

In the latest installment of why geeks make good lovers, former Gawker contributor Doree Shafrir opines on how taut and svelte is replacing pasty and sallow amongst the literary dorks of New York. But part of keeping up appearances is working out on the down low — it's important not to look like you want to look good. For those of you with a little less invested in an maintaining an ironic veneer, Tim Ferriss has some bodyhacks for weight loss and muscle gain.

Why aren't more local techies sporting abs of steel and ripped pectoral muscles like the thoroughly fictitious version of Valleywag's Owen Thomas above? Because Californians don't walk, they drive, especially outside of San Francisco proper. And that means taking care of your wetware requires extra effort.

Kevin Rose gets chased by a sheep -- film at 11

Jordan Golson — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:20:38 PDT

Wine Library TV host Gary Vaynerchuk took an even more select subset of The 250 up to De Loach Vineyards in Santa Rosa for a wine tasting. Among the guests were Laughing Squid's Scott Beale, egoblogger Robert Scoble, Facebook evangelist Dave Morin, 4-Hour Workweek author Tim Ferriss and Digg's Kevin Rose. One of the tastings took place on a farm. On this farm there were some sheep. One of these sheep didn't like Kevin Rose very much — and chased him up a hill. Robert Scoble took photos. Scoble showed those photos to MadPod's James Donnelly, who filmed them and put the result on the Internet. Much to Rose's dismay, we are sure, we present that video to you.

Valleywag: tim ferriss

Nerds discover exercise, eye it suspiciously

Kevin Rose gets chased by a sheep -- film at 11