Nerd News Roundup – 2.24.09

- Hey, whaddya know: teens are apparently still listening to their music too loud. Those little whippersnappers should be more careful with their loud rock metal and hippity hoppity.

- In other music news, yet another study finds that babies have an innate sense of rhythm. So...how is it that white males lose this skill when they become adults? Zing.

- THE DARK KNIGHT hit another milestone this weekend, even before Heath Ledger won his posthumous Oscar. The film passed the $1 billion mark on Friday, with a total box office haul of $1,001,082,160 at that point. It's not the fourth movie in history to break the milestone, after TITANIC, LotR: RETURN OF THE KING and PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST.

- It seems as if Scholastic's Klutz imprint lifted an idea for a book off the internet, and didn't give anyone credit. We're not quite sure why anyone would a) think that that's a good idea and b) think that they could actually get away with it nowadays.

- Is Nerd Dad Andrew enough of a nerd that he can say he loves Philip Pullman AND French Impressionism? Yes. Yes he is. Did he ever think the twain would meet? Absolutely not in a million years. But behold! Watch Philip Pullman discuss Manet's "Bar at the Folies-Bergère."