Oh yeah. I am SUCH a nerd! My new license plate arrived in the mail yesterday, and I just put it on my truck. Vanity plates here in Wisconsin are cheap, so I thought, what the hell.

And then there’s the one on the back…

As Ariela would say:
NEERRRRRR-RRRRRDD!
Which reminds me, I’ve seen some nerdy license plates. The first ones I saw were in Davis, CA:
SYNTIST
PRMD OOZ (I think I remember this one right)
And in the few months I’ve been in Madison, WI, I’ve seen:
PROTEIN
EVOLVD
and last week friday I just saw,
XX XY
So now add INOCUL8 to the list.
What are the best nerdy license plates you’ve seen? Extra points if it’s science!
Contributions
Jonathan Eisen at The Tree of Life proudly shows his support for open-access journals with:

PLOS ORG !
And Bora at A Blog Around the Clock is now thinking about “PLOS ONE”.
Larry Moran gives us PROTEOME.

You can email me pictures at karl AT inoculatedmind DOT com, and I’ll put them up.
Keep em coming!


















Here’s one …
PROTEOME
Sudhir Kumar, the person responsible for the molecular evolution software MEGA has the license plate MEGA3. At least he did a couple of years ago when the most current version of the software was MEGA3. I’m not sure if he’s updated his plate to MEGA4.
Steve Gould drove a car with this vanity plate:
“FOSSIL”
Sorry, no photo.
Great, thanks! Your comment, Larry, was caught up in the spam filter.
I have a flickr set of photos of vanity plates, mostly from here in Toronto Ontario:
http://flickr.com/photos/photopia/sets/72157594483506689/
My 15 megabytes of fame happened 13 June 2005:
http://www.photopia.tyo.ca/index.php/image/micl-jxn
the MICL JXN license plate then made an appearance outside the courthouse where the real Michael Jackson was having his day in court.