Some charts

[andrewducker]

The Fetish Chart - linking various fetishes together.
The Geek heirarchy
The geek flowchart - which was attached to this New-York Times article on Gary Gygax.

I'd seen the first two before. The third article was written by a geek and is rather sweet.

Oooh - and of course Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music. I really, really wish someone would do one of these for other kinds of music.

Comments

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I loved the geek flowchart and the NYT article. I'm slightly suspicious of the fetish chart, given that from what I've heard "hamstering" is a myth. OTOH, it might not be a myth, but I'm also not willing to look to find out. I was also amused that I didn't know what a few of those fetishes were, and noticed that I had absolutely no desire to find out. In some areas, there's definitely such a thing as too much knowledge :)

[asim.livejournal.com]

Hell, I want to do one of these guides for Bellydance, man.

[intelligentrix.livejournal.com]

My main beef with the D&D geek flowchart is that is assumes the subject is male. What about all those D&D playing girls (like I was)* out there? In fact, almost every article about geeks assumes they are male. We may be in the minority, but we do exist.

*Played D&D throughout high school and a bit beyond and no, a guy didn't get me into it. I even DMed most of the time.

[andrewducker]

I know! My last game was me, one guy and 4 women!

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

This might be what you're after as far as charts detailing musical genres goes:




[this isn't original - I first saw it on rec.music.industrial back in about 2000, but it's still useful I think]