It's nice that "nerd" is no longer a four letter word used by bullies in school yards to taunt people. Instead, it seems like everybody wants to declare how they are a nerd, or how some aspect of their personality is "nerdy". Maybe it's part of internet culture, since the internet is built by nerds. In fact our very word social no longer means hanging out together in person: it means facebooking and tweeting on our phones.

Here are some things people use to lay claim to nerdliness, but let's face it, we aren't all nerds: