NO SOUP FOR YOU!

Here's how the Skull Scouts troop crest is coming. Troop crests are oval, not round: 1.5" wide by 1.75" tall, with a green background and border.

Dear Nerd Army: a friend sent this to me and asked what it is. I suspect it's a stargate. Any ideas?

r38y and I are at the NY Times Open event in midtown Manhattan. They're handing out our first "attendance badge": TIMES OPEN!

Am I crazy? Does this thing have a name? It looks like an asterisk, but it's not an asterisk. It's a candidate for an upcoming de-merit badge: "UNABLE TO AVOID SHARING FACTOIDS". We were tentatively going to call it the "ASS-terisk."

If we can fi

A (close to) scale drawing of what a nerd-merit-badge sash might look like on a 17" MacBook Pro.