Note: This episode is a repeat, and features stories from the September 19 and November 28, 2007 episodes.

On this episode of Spark:

• Spark listeners are geeks. Well, some of them anyway.
• Craig Desson joins the Dork Army, a group of Canadian professional video gamers
• Celeste McWhorter defines gamedar
• André Meadows is a self-professed "proud certified black nerd"
• Raafi Rivero on the rise of the black nerd
• Ivan Bowman uses a robot to telecommute from Halifax to Waterloo

This episode features Creative Commons music and sound effects:

• "Oslodum 2004" by DJ Dolores
• "airtone/ephem/">ephemeralspaces" and "airtone/onojo/">onojo" by airtone
• "erh strings n bells.wav" by ERH
• "Mario Theme" by firecoolster
• "Weird Techno" by Bunny13
• "Mario Sounds" by pilaman
• "Silk Instrumental" by Phillykid
• "airtone/at707-luna-muerta/">at707 | luna muerta" by airtone
• "love odyssey" by arslkhan

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