When it comes to geek memes few things can surpass Star Wars (despite Lucas’s best efforts to kill the franchise with episodes 1-3). A mainstay in the pantheon of lovable science fiction characters is R2-D2, the droid that could. Artist Reece Ward here shows us a cutaway of just what is in our favorite bleepin’ hero - apparently a trike, Dalek, etc.
You can buy this shirt from RedBubble.com for $23.94. Hat tip goes to Geekologie for spotting this gem.
Pure Pwnage is a Canadian mockumentary based on Jeremy and his quest to be a pro gamer. Of course, central to any pro gamer is the ability to pwn, or completely decimate opponents, preferably in humiliating ways. Pure Pwnage’s store has a number of great items reflecting that including the ‘iPwn’ tshirt.
It’s available for $16.99 from the n00bstore. Online smackdown is extra. Props to TCritic for the find.
After launching to extremely high expectations Shirt.Woot.com has been quite a hit or miss affair. For every great, geek centric design there are a dozen that seem to be the equivalent C or D Threadless class submissions.
The ‘Human Genome’ shirt falls into the first category. Available for the post-Woot price of $15 its a nice addition for the genetic manipulator in your life. As first seen on TRoundup.
And now, in this hotly contested election year, I offer a ballad in support of a worthy candidate (sung to the tune of Gilligan’s Island):
Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this Kobol port
Aboard this old spaceship.The mate was a military man,
The president brave and sure.
The passengers set course that day
For a three hour tour, a three hour tour.The Cylons started getting rough,
The old ship was tossed,
If not for the courage of the fearless crew
Humanity would be lost, humanity would be lost.The ship set course for uncharted planet Earth
With “Starbuck” Thrace
Adama too,
Roslin and her staff,
those Boomers,
Dr. Baltar and Number Six,
Here in Battlestar’s berth.So this is the tale of the castaways,
They’re here for a long, long time,
They’ll have to make the best of things,
With frakkin Cylon slime.The President and the Commander too,
Will do their very best,
To make the others comfortable,
(Only after their Cylon test).So join us here each week my freinds,
It’s sure to be a while,
The space stranded castways,
on this modern Gilligan’s Isle.
Rosline ‘08 shirt available from Hijink’s Ensue Store. Prices start at $20.
Have you played Rock Band? If not, you haven’t lived. For many geeks, Rock Band is the closest we’ll ever come to having underwear thrown in our direction - hence its appeal. Combine a Rock Band parody shirt with a Star Wars reference and you’ve got a groupie worthy product.
The shirt comes from Think Geek and is available starting at $14.99. There is an affiliate link (to help the site) and a non-affiliate link available (to provide I’m not in the pocket of the powerful Tee lobby). Thanks to SlashFilm.com for the reference.
So CNN recently opened up its own tee shop. The idea was that when you found a headline you like you could order it on a shirt with the words “I’ve got nothing better to do than shill for CNN” “I saw it on CNN.com”. By itself that was only as titillating as a portrait of Bee Arthur on velvet. Luis, over at the Signal vs Noise blog, discovered that by manipulating the URL variables you could create something vastly more interesting - headlines that were actually funny. The subterfuge was made all that much more satisfying when ‘I saw it on CNN.com’ continued to be appended to whatever outrageousness could be divined.
Initially the only problem was that a checksum prevented people from ordering the shirts they actually wanted; “I’ll put Blitzer in a Situation Room” and “Anderson Cooper Has No Flag Pin” could only viewed, not bought. However, new reports show that even the ability to approximate physical impropriety has been nixed. Instead we’re left with “Shelter Dog Nurses 9 Orphaned Kittens”. Awesome…. and Fail.
Boing Boing has such amazing timing. Just the other day I had sat down to watch my soaps when the thought occurred to me: “Gee, wouldn’t it be nice if I had a keyboard affixed to my crotch“. I mean, geez, I get anxiety attacks just contemplating that an input device might be an entire arms-reach away.
Seriously though, this is the kind of apparel idea that only a clueless technosexual could love. And while a pair of speakers built into the knees is begrudgingly cool the placement of the ‘Enter’ key is disgustingly suggestive. Final verdict: fail.
Ask any typographer what the biggest bane of the web is and it is only a matter of seconds before they reply ‘Comic Sans’. Of the handful of fonts the web founding fathers chose to include why one that was fit only to adorn Charlie Brown reprints was chosen is beyond me.
Bad Designer Threads understands my pain. They’ve created this wonderful Tee to proclaim to the world just what punishment should befall those ignorant enough to use this travesty of typographic display. Discovered through Pop Culture Tees. It’s yours for $20.
As seen on Boing Boing comes this incredible, sensational, too - much - goodness - on - one - front tshirt. Depicting silhouettes of science fiction’s most iconic robots ChopShopStore’s WeRobot is a geek tour-de-force. Available for $25.
So why would I be covering ties on a tshirt review site? Well, as hard as it might be to believe, a well coiffed geek can’t wear tees all the time. And while we can’t always wear our favorite apparel there’s no reason we can’t geek up even the most formal attire.
First up is Computer Gear’s Engineering Graph Silk Tie (found via Fashionably Geek). It’ll cost $30 for the luxury of graphing an exponential equation on what is otherwise only useful as a napkin substitute.
Second up, in time for its 30th anniversary, is the ‘Space Intruders’ tie from Amazon.com (I’m guessing its ‘Space Intruders’ instead of ‘Space Invaders’ because of some kind of licensing [or lack thereof] nonsense). To get this game on your wallet will suffer a $24.95 setback.
