In a post a week or so ago on the United Hollywood blog added a link to someone usingTwitter to send out updates on the activities on the strike line, noting that it was "Perfect for all you nerds, hipsters and hideous nerd-hipster hybrids." I thought to myself, that pretty much sums me up. I might lean closer to geek-hipster hybrid, or hacker-hipster hybrid, but the general idea is the same: I make a lot of decisions based on both technical merit and hipness factor. Here are a few examples:

• I prefer to use emusic over iTunes.The technical reason is that they offer DRM-free mp3s, a Linux client for downloads, and you can redownload any track you have paid for any an unlimited number of times. The hipster reason is that I can get dozens of rare Jazz tracks, and bands that no one else has ever heard of, like Giant Robot.
• I am a dedicated Linux user. The technical reason is that I find it a far superior operating system in lots of ways that I care about. The hipster reason is that it's like a band that no one else has ever heard of. I'm actually concerned about it's growing popularity, especially on the desktop. If Linux gets cool, what OS am I going to have to resort to in order to maintain my geek-hipster cred? FreeBSD? AmigaOS!?!!?
• I love old games and hardware, and the world of emulation, and I insist to this day that the old games are far superior to the crap they are putting out these days (except the Wii, which is my guilty hipster pleasure).
• I will sit and debate the relative merits of hardware and software, and talk endlessly about who pioneered what, and whom was influenced by whom (like a long-winded riff on the influence of LISP on Java given that Guy Steele was part of the core specification team) without a hint of irony.

I should just get a plain black t-shirt printed up that says "Your Favorite Chip Architecture Sucks" to clearly define the genre. Hideous Nerd/Geek/Hacker-Hipsters Unite!