Tron Girl

Anyone get the license number of the bike that ran me over? Anyone?

Geek Pride Day

Today is Geek Pride Day. Why? Because we geeks have the technical expertise to make it so, that's why.

Via Wikipedia:

 Geek Pride Day is an initiative which claims the right of every person to be a nerd or a geek. It has been celebrated on May 25 since 2006, celebrating the premiere of the first Star Wars movie in 1977.

Rights:

1. The right to be even geekier.
2. The right to not leave your house.
3. The right to not like football or any other sport.
4. The right to associate with other nerds.
5. The right to have few friends (or none at all).
6. The right to have as many geeky friends as you want.
7. The right to be out of style.
8. The right to be overweight and near-sighted.
9. The right to show off your geekiness.
10. The right to take over the world.

Responsibilities:

1. Be a geek, no matter what.
2. Try to be nerdier than anyone else.
3. If there is a discussion about something geeky, you must give your opinion.
4. To save and protect all geeky material.
5. Do everything you can to show off geeky stuff as a "museum of geekiness."
6. Don't be a generalized geek. You must specialize in something.
7. Attend every nerdy movie on opening night and buy every geeky book before anyone else.
8. Wait in line on every opening night. If you can go in costume or at least with a related T-shirt, all the better.
9. Never throw away anything related to geekdom.
10. Try to take over the world!

XKCD - Admin Mourning

Via XKCD

Binary Geeks Rejoice

It's 010110.

Estimation

Anyone who has ever sat there watching Windows animate that stupid folder icon can relate.

USB Chainsaw - That's Crazy, But I Want One

How often have I been sitting around the office and found myself in need of a portable device that could rip through just about any material known to man? Like a plastic blister pack containing a USB flash drive.

Dvice has the details on the USB Chainsaw, but at $59.99, you'd better have an actual need for something like this, because feeding your inner geek isn't supposed to break the bank.

Beam Me Down, Scotty

Gene Roddenberry had his ashes rocketed into space.

If you're not into being burned to a crisp upon your demise, but you have a Roddenberry-esqe desire to carry your geek factor with you into the afterlife, perhaps a Star Trek casket is perfect for you.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the only thing getting transported into a new dimension is your cash into the salesman's pocket, but live long and prosper, gullibility.

Oh, look - they have an urn, too, so you get to choose. Hot or not.

RSS Coasters

No, that's not a metaphor for bloggers who use their feed readers to glean content from other web locations in order to post it on their own site, but that's a good guess.

These are bar coasters with an RSS theme, for a truly geeky cocktail hour.

Why? Because trying to explain how RSS works to your non-techie friends requires at least a couple of stiff drinks, that's why.

Feed and drink with these RSS-themed coasters , via ForeverGeek

Wipe Your Feet on my iPhone Mat

I'm pretty geeky, but this doormat is too clichéd even for me.

iPhoneFreak has the inside scoop on this "slide to unlock" doormat. I wonder if anyone would stand there thinking they were on Candid Camera as they moved their feet back and forth in an attempt to break in.

Call it the 'iPod Shuffle".

Slide to Unlock doormat lets everyone know you are a total geek

World's Largest Cheeto

Thanks to the unwise folks at Gizmodo, we have video of a staffer eating the world's largest Cheeto directly over the world's most expensive keyboard.

Who knew it would be stale and tasteless?

I Ate the World's Largest Cheeto Over the World's Most Expensive Keyboard


World's Largest Cheeto and the Optimus Maximus from Gizmodo on Vimeo.

Radio Controlled Nerf Tank

In the kingdom of Oxymoron, right up there with Military Intelligence is Nerf Tank. I mean, really.

Via Hack A Day, a giant Nerf tank, outfitted with a webcam, laser sights, and a music player.

One-two-three-four, I declare a Nerf war.

Radio Controlled Nerf Tank

Girls Love Geeks

This is why. Via Neatorama.

Nerd Merit Badge

In my younger days, I was a Cub Scout, and later, a Boy Scout. I will pause here to absorb the ridicule that is being hurled in my direction.

Feel better now?

Anyway, there's a whole clever site, Nerd Merit Badges, that's filling the demand for these tokens of honor brought forth into geekdom. And they have a brand new offering - InBox Zero. For those of us who have known the fleeting pleasure that comes with having no unread messages waiting in your mail folder.

Imagine the looks on co-workers faces when you stroll into the office (lab, datacenter, pod, unemployment office) wearing a dandy sash filled with circular stitched recognition. Priceless.