12 Hottest Geek Girls

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Marina Orlova

This 28 year-old Russian vixen doesn’t spend her time bouncing around in front of a camera just for kicks — she’s out to educate in the process. Originally an etymologist, Marina found that applying her considerable knowledge in an unorthodox fashion was a quick way to beat the economy, and in 2007 Hot for Words was born. Averaging at over two million views per video, Marina pretty much owns YouTube. She’s been singled out by Wired, G4, and Cosmopolitan as one the world’s sexiest geek girls, and we’re tipping our hats as well.

Jade Raymond

She may be one quarter Aussie, a quarter Chinese, and half Canadian, but this geek girl is 100% awesome. She produced Assassin’s Creed in 2007, and she’s the sequel’s executive producer this year. She’s spent time working for Sony Online and Electronic Arts, two of the biggest names in the industry. One thing’s for certain; Ubisoft is one lucky gaming company to have her guiding their code.

Marissa Mayer

She may be called The Cupcake Princess, but Marissa Mayer is no joke. She’s Vice President of Search Product and User Experience at Google. What’s that mean? It means within the walls of Google, what she says goes. She studied artificial intelligence at Stanford, and before she became the first woman to work at Google, she worked for UBS in a Zurich lab.

Veronica Belmont

Gorgeous and aptly named Veronica Belmont began her career as an A/V nerd out of Boston’s Emerson College. She’s since hopped coasts and now spends her time in San Francisco, attending tech events and hosting tech shows for people like Sony and Revision3. That’s when she’s not busy podcasting, or logging hours on her PS3.

Jolie O’Dell

Jolie has a pretty solid history as a writer and journalist, and though she’s technically freelance, spends most of her time these days over at Read Write Web. Unlike most geeky goddesses, this redhead is actually pretty down to earth, even downright girl next door in the way she interacts with people. Add this girl to your reading list — You won’t be sorry.

Olivia Munn

No man can make it through a day in the life of a modern geek without the sight of Olivia Munn somewhere in his periphery. Whether she’s in a Wonder Woman outfit, or a Princess Leia bikini, she’s everywhere. And for good reason — She’s gorgeous. She’s become the face of not only G4, but all geekery as well, due to her long-running success as co-host of Attack of the Show.

Jessica Chobot

Born Jessica Lynn Horn, it’s understandable that Ms. Chobot prefers a pseudonym. With looks like hers, the constant threat of bad punnery must have been stressful, to say the least. She’s a huge anime nerd on top of being a staff-writer for IGN, and if that’s not enough, she dabbles in Maxim and FHM in her spare time. She’s been on G4’s Attack of the Show several times, and is most noted for licking what is arguably the luckiest PSP ever built.

Morgan Webb

Morgan’s shown her resilience matches her geekiness by outlasting nearly every other employee who worked alongside her at TechTV before it merged with G4 in 2004. Since then, she’s steadily cemented her fame by not only hosting X-Play, but also making appearances in nearly every other tech show and convention possible. She’s even spent time writing for FHM, responding to despondent, horny gamer nerds once a month in her own column.

Amber MacArthur

Another Canadian, Amber came down from the deep north to work for Microsoft, and even spent time in San Francisco working for Razorfish. She hangs out with Leo Laporte on a regular basis, and she’s hosted or made appearances on a laundry list of tech shows and podcasts over the years.

Felicia Day

Felicia may have started off in the realm of pure acting, but she drifted into something much deeper when she helped create The Guild. Geeks everywhere suddenly became aware of the notoriously pale, gorgeous internet-star when episodes of the severely under-funded show began popping up in their inboxes. She’s now a full-blown web-celebrity now, and unlike many, works hard to earn her place in geeky lists everywhere.

Natali Del Conte

This native Californian now hangs out in New York, and she’s serious business. She’s one of CNET’s senior editors, and she’s worked with Wired, TechCrunch, PC Magazine and a host of newspapers and other publications. She’s an experienced podcaster, and she’s made appearances on numerous other tech shows and broadcasts, including G4’s Attack of the Show.

Leah Culver

Leah Culver was a co-founder of Pownce (now defunct), and now codes for Six Apart. She’s largely responsible for OAuth, which you probably used on at least one website today. She’s obscenely cute, and codes better than you do. She’s got a thing for old VW’s and Diet Coke, which pretty much makes her awesome.

The first author that Predicto TV interviews is Marina Orlova, one the biggest stars on YouTube. The Russian philology expert knows everything about words and their meaning, and puts it all into a new book called Hot For Words, out now from HarperCollins. We met Marina before a jam-packed book signing in Manhattan, where she met her loyal “students” in person. Marina knows the etymology of words, but what about Predicto questions? When asked who will have more users by the end of the year, MySpace or Facebook, she said, “Twitter. I think Twitter will beat everyone else.” (In voting by almost 3,000 Predicto users, Facebook beat MySpace, 56% to 44%). To find out how Marina answers our Predicto questions, watch Episode 37 of Predicto TV now!

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What do LeVar Burton, Felicia Day, Steve Wozniak, Marina Orlova and Shaquille O’Neal have in common? They all appear in I AM A GEEK — a collaborative video project bringing together some of the biggest creators, personalities and web celebs in the online world.

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Whilst trawling the web, I came across a neat parody of a Justin Timberlake song. Two things make it particularly worth watching; the first is that it makes fun of the the bad grammar found in songs -including those of the said Mr. Timberlake; and it features the linguists’ pin-up grrl, Marina Orlova or, as she is commonly known, Hot For Words. Marina’s site is the best excuse ever for stuffy old language pedants to ogle a very attractive blonde. Shamelessly sexist I know, but then I make no apologies for being a regular who find women attractive. And Ms. Orlova is no exception.

So sit back and click this video., and then the guys can stop over at Marina’s site, Hot For Words, and add it as a bookmark. Or as a podcast

A filologia sempre foi uma ciência um tanto quanto dicriminada. Ao lembrar-nos de Antônio Houaiss e associa-lo com um dicionário, a palavra “filólogo” por si já fica automaticamente chata, ou intelectual demais, ou acadêmica.

Não mais.

O Youtube possui um canal que recebe o singelo nome de “Hot For Words”. Apresentado por Marina Orlova, uma filóloga um tanto quanto diferente das demais, periodicamente vídeos são inseridos no site, onde Marina responde à duvidas sobre a origem de qualquer palavra na língua inglesa. Contando com uma edição relativamente caprichada (caseira?), o canal é um dos mais vistos no Youtube, ficando ao lado do canal do Universal Group e da NBA.

Marina, por sua vez, além de dona do “Hot For Words”,  é graduada em filologia pela Universidade Federal de Nizhni Novgorod, na Rússia, e ex-professora de inglês de nível secundário. Especializada em etimologia, a “filóloga mais sexy da internet” segundo a revista New Yorker, aparenta através dos vídeos, ser um amor de pessoa – além de ser um mulherão.

Segue um dos vídeos do HotForWords. Neste, Marina desvenda a etimologia da palavra “pot” (uma maneira popular de denominar maconha, em inglês).

Boa aula!

Hotforwords.com superó las 100 millones de visitas sumando todos los videos de esta lingüista, votada como la mas sexy de la red de redes. Nadie se equivoca, Marina Orlova está mas fuerte que un palazo a la cara, y para que se den una idea de que se trata su programa en Youtube, es como si Pamela David se pusiera a explicar frente a cámara, vestida de top y calza ajustada el origen de una palabra.

Como dice algun usuario en sus videos: “The whole point of the thing is that she makes perveted people learn something”.

(El punto de todo esto es que ella logra que los pervertidos aprendan algo)

If you’ve spent anytime on YouTube, you may have noticed one of the more popular channels on the site, Hot For Words. Also available at www.HotForWords.com, these short video clips which began as a series called “Intelligence is Sexy”, feature Marina Orlova, a Russian philologist (a fancy word for someone who studies the origin of words, relationships between languages and other forms of linguistics).

In this video, Marina Orlova (breast perked as usual) makes a rather annoying attempt (although she makes up for it in looks) at finding the origin of the word Heroin.

Heroin was first fabricated in 1874 by an English chemist at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London. The video is right that in the fact that heroin is a product of Bayer pharmaceutical company and he name heroin does come from the word heroisch, German for heroic.

Between the years 1898 and 1910, heroin was advertised as a non-addictive morphine substitute and cough suppressant. At one point, Bayer advertised heroin as a cure for morphine addiction. What Marina Orlova doesn’t tell you in the Hot For Words video is that once Bayer found out that heroin was even more addictive than morphine, the product became a huge embarrassment for Bayer. 

There’s plenty of important and educational stuff on the Web. But who wants to look at that stuff when we can use the internet to watch Pearl the landlord hassling Will Ferrell or bunch of Ivy Leaguers rapping about keeping it real ["high tea in the parlor makes the ladies holler"]. Add one more guilty pleasure to the list — Hot for Words. 

Here’s the premise: A couple times a week, Marina Orlova posts a video blog on her Web site and on YouTube detailing the origin of a word or phrase. Oh — and she’s Russian. And hot. And shows plenty of cleavage. Ok basically it’s like a PG-rated Playboy video blog. [I swear — I only watch it to learn the word origins!]

In a recent video, Marian explored the etymology of the word “nerd.” While part of her explanation was correct — the first documented use of the word “nerd” was in 1950 in the Dr. Suess book “If I Ran The Zoo” — she fails to fully explain how the word came to be used as slang to describe someone who is bookish and nonsocial.

There really is no clear answer. An in-depth thesis on the subject is posted at Jim Burrows’ Web site. He notes that while the Dr. Suess book has a drawing of a nerd, it never describes what a nerd is other than a creature from the land of Ka-Troo.

A year after the Suess book was published, Newsweek magazine published a story that had a reference to nerd:

In Detroit, someone who once would be called a drip or a square is now, regrettably, a nerd, or in a less severe case, a scurve. [Oct. 15, 1951, page 16]

but the article never describes how the definition came about.

Some alumni from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute argue that the term comes from the word “knurd,” which is drunk spelled backwards. These folks claim the word was coined to differentiate the non-drinkers from the drunks. But as Burrows points out, the earliest documentation of knurd occurred in 1965.

The word gained popularity in the 1970s, in large part because of its heavy usage on the T.V. show “Happy Days.” By this time, the word’s definition had expanded from describing a person as a “square” to  characterizing someone as smart but lacking social grace.