Share the love

Know why I love geeks? Because they're not only obsessive, they share their obsessions with the world. Which has always been the case -- early SF fans created fanzines to spread the good word -- but it’s so much easier now with the Web. For instance: One intensely devoted fan of the sadly departed animated series Futurama has logged all the silly taglines that appeared in the opening credits... not by copying them down and typing up a list, but by screen-capping the precise moment from his DVDs. And he’s posted them on Flickr for all of us to giggle over. Fox may not appreciate that this is a gesture bursting with love and generosity, but I do.

I could write a lot about the self-referentially geeky content of Futurama itself -- and I’m sure I will someday -- but the show seems to have inspired a lot of folks to do silly things along the lines of what I talked about recently: the "willingness to combine things we love in unexpected ways." I can’t figure out where this:

originated, but I find it highly clever and highly amusing.