Jeremy Lin may be the most popular athlete in history whose physical skills are equally proportional to his consummate nerdiness. One example: The Landry Fields/Jeremy Lin "Nerdshake." For another, just look to his fanbase, which apparently includes coders and the tech-savvy users they cater to, both of whom are expressing their Linsanity through popular web apps.

Instapaper, Marco Arment's original "reader" app, has now been transformed for the Jeremy Lin-obsessed into—yes—Linstapaper, which collects all the Jeremy Lin-related reads obsessives would want to pore over, all in once place, in one nifty URL, which "Read Later" tags attached to them. The man behind it? Jeremy Singer-Vine, a journalist-programmer who's written and programmed for Slate and the Wall Street Journal. The Atlantic Wire points to Mr. Singer-Vine's Twitter, where he notes:

Wow—In the few hours since linstapaper.com launched, it's had visitors from 30+ countries, including Sri Lanka and Saudi Arabia.

— Jeremy Singer-Vine (@jsvine) February 20, 2012

Not bad. He's also been taking recommendations over Twitter for what to aggregate into Linstapaper; it's an impressive case study in crowd-sourcing moving in the opposite direction it usually does.

Elsewhere, there are LINSTAGRAMS: Code for Instagrammed photos tagged with the word "LIN" and aggregated on Hashgram (which picks up various Instagram tags). There's no cute URL for it yet, but there's more than enough to keep the tag moving.

Meanwhile, SF Gate's Tech Chronicles blog notes the Lin Effect on social networks.

Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian recently attempted to explain the nerd-crush on Jeremy Lin as best he can at Wired on how Jeremy Lin's success is so exciting for him and his "fellow geeks" (he offered Betabeat the same takeaway a day before):

Jeremy Lin is a validation of our worldview: Ignore expectation, follow the data.

...which, as evidenced, said geeks will be continuing to provide on many a medium in the coming months until the NBA season ends, and probably long after that. Linsanity—especially on the Internet—isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

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The philanthropic collabo is being facilitated by DonorsChoose.org.  Mr. Ohanian told Betabeat that he will soon be joining the startup's advisory board. "WOO for NY startups," he emailed. Since this is for a good cause, we'll refrain from asking him to step away from the pom-poms. Anyone who makes a donation of $10 or more towards physical education projects in New York City schools is eligible to win the tickets. The initiative, which did a soft launch last Friday, has already raised $1,561. Deadline for donations is next Monday at midnight.

Mr. Ohanian initially claimed to be the world's biggest Jeremy Lin fan, but backed down after some gentle prodding. "I haven't seen him play live (hence the idea for the contest!) and I accept that I may not in fact be his biggest fan," Mr. Ohanian admitted. "But I adore him because he's a validation of the geek's worldview: ignore expectation, follow the data. I then realized my social enterprise, breadpig.com (a Newman's Own for Nerds) made total sense to organize the fundraiser and asked Seatgeek (they were 110% stoked!)."

This isn't the first time Mr. Ohanian's gotten personally involved in a DonorsChoose fundraising initiative. Reddit broke records by raising more than $100,000 for Stephen Colbert's "Restoring Truthiness" rally, a rejoinder to Glenn Beck, and helped raise more than $620,000 towards history and civics projects. Breadpig has also pimped out collaborators for the greater good. Of course, nothing as personal as that time Mr. Ohanian got his own facial hair involved.

Mark Zuckerberg's personal net worth may soon surpass Larry's and Sergey's. So you have to get creative about how to spend those billions. What better way than to pay homage to a fellow wunderkind and cure a bad case of the linsanes all at the same time?

Mr. Zuckerberg and his girlfriend Priscilla Chan stopped by Madison Square Garden over the weekend to watch the Knicks beat the Dallas Mavericks. According to CNBC sports reporter Darren Rovell, Zuck's seats, which were right behind the Knicks's bench, typically go for $1,200. 

As Mr. Rovell also points out, based on some dubious back of envelope calculation:

Mark Zuckerberg, who is at the Knicks game today, could buy every seat to every Knicks game for 100 years at the current price

— darren rovell (@darrenrovell) February 19, 2012

Maybe, but do you really want the guy who has to kill his own meat to be in charge of your hot dog stand?

The timeline of New York Knicks overnight superstar Jeremy Lin on social networks probably goes something like:

1. Twitter ("Who's this Jeremy Lin guy?")
2. Facebook ("Look at this Jeremy Lin guy.")
3. Foursquare ("I'm watching this Jeremy Lin guy right now.")
4. Tumblr ("Fuck Yeah This Jeremy Lin Guy Dot Tumblr Dot Com.")
5. Reddit ("Here is everything about this Jeremy Lin guy that will be reported by news outlets in no less than two weeks.")

And then:

6. Quora ("What is it like to play basketball with Jeremy Lin?")

Well, not only has the question been asked, but it now has an answer, and it's basically set Quora on fire.

[FURTHER LINSANITY: THIS IS WHAT JEREMY LIN HAS DONE TO THE STOCK MARKET]

Quora—the question-and-usually-intelligent-answers social networking site—got gifted with a pretty great thread: A former Harvard Basketball teammate and a former sixth grade basketball teammate of Jeremy Lin's are both talking about what it's like to play basketball with him. The questions have since been upvoted 400 times and read 10454 times.

There are some obvious, to-be-expected moments of awe:

We were chanting his name on the shuttle ride home, never imagining that a sold out Madison Square Garden would be doing the same thing a few years later.

The legitimately insightful tidbits:

...During the 4th quarter of the Nets game the announcer kept saying that Jeremy looked exhausted. What he doesn't know is that Jeremy always looks like that. He would appear to be dead tired after 5 minutes of warm ups. No one really knew why, but no one really cared because he would always come out and put in work for 40 minutes.

And the funny, classically Quora-ephemera lines:

I was always more of a Madden guy, but from limited experience and word of mouth I gathered he was excellent at Halo.

It's worth a read, definitely for fans of the Knicks and Jeremy Lin, but also as a guide to how Quora works best. Also, if anything, because it's probably going to result in a few new Quora users by the end of the night.

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