By way of Boing Boing via a Philip K. Dick fan blog comes a snazzy electroluminescent shirt. Its apparently based on ‘The Man in the High Castle’ and displays hexagrams when the sleeve is tugged. While I’m all up for snazzy sci-fi homages forget all the mumbo-jumbo: it’s motion activated glyph apparel. And I need one of these for the next rave. No sales info yet; somebody should get on that.
Portal, an inclusion in Valve Software’s Orange Box game pack, should have been forgettable. With the second installment of Half-Life 2’s episodic content and a Team Fortress sequel ten years in the making Portal should have been a bit of shovelware. Instead, the first game to birth the genre ‘action-puzzler’ was better than it ever had rights to be - even ending up included as #2 on GameSpy’s best games of 2007 list. What’s more it shares a distinction that few games enjoy: fully transcending from game-land into the larger geekdom pop culture.
That’s why even non-games can appreciate this companion cube Tshirt direct from the Valve store. *sniff* On the front is a tribute to the precious inanimate object *hiccup*. On the back is a scrawled poetic eulogy. It’s almost as tender as Portal’s…. *sob* final theme song. Just watch this video while I go take this eyelash out of both eyes.
By way of Mahalo.com’s Veronica Belmont comes these adorably cute yet masculinely geek-themed pillows. They come from Artlebedev.com. A bundled pack of all six costs $24.82. I was a bit disappointed that each individual smiley is only a little more than 5 inches in diameter. However, they still would be the perfect size for decorating a cubical, sprucing up a home office, or flinging at the coworker who fails to realize you don’t appreciate him literally LOL’ing.
Knowing how some geeks are with relationships (approaching it as a puzzle to solve rather than something to engage in) the retired circus monkeys and I thought some head’s up was in order. As a service to MilitantGeek readers we’re providing a one month notice of impending Valentines-day-dom.
And if your significant other happens to ALSO be geek consider giving this lovely ASCII rose tshirt. But be warned - your lovely may not appreciate a dozen of these (and neither will your wallet at $23.95 a pop). Get your ASCII rose from Zazzle.com. Props to FashionablyGeek.com for the heads up.
It’s Monday. And as much as I might be glad to see your lovely face let’s both be honest - you’re pissed that its Monday is already here, you’re hiding out in your cube, and you’re surfing this site hoping out to eek out the last of your weekend shenanigans before the ‘team meeting’.
The folks at LuckyThreadz.com understand. They’ve created a shirt to commemorate days like this. They’re $16. Buy one now and where it on Friday for your next temporary liberation.
The idea is pretty straightforward: take a shirt, leave some blank space, and let users customize as they see fit. This shirt is from MacMerc.com who has one of the most honest (or sad, depending on your point of view) product descriptions:
Note: MacMerc.com is not associated with Twitter.com and makes this shirt available as a form of pop culture satire, not as official Twitter merchandise. Please don’t sue us.
Wearers can write in their twitter username (enabled by a snazzy tshirt technology referred to as ‘writeable flex printing’) so people add the attention-hungry user the next time they’re on twitter - the Web 2.0 equivalent of the bathroom wall? Price is $18.90. Other writable shirts featured on MilitantGeek include ThinkGeek’s Read/Write/ReWrite shirt.
Are Seinfeld references a bit long in the tooth? Considering the ubiquity of syndicated sitcoms and the cleverness of this shirt from NoStarClothing.com I’d say no. Granted, these are the kind of simple parabolas that elementary math nerds pee in snowbanks. However, it’ll still intimidate the math n00b in your life. Its $12 on a brown background.
Other math tees for geeks as seen on MilitantGeek include the Mathlete athletic jersey.
I admit it - we missed this shirt the first time it went around on Woot.com. However, while I have missed the $10 period the benevolent adcopy overloads at Woot have seen fit to give every geek a second chance (albeit now at $15). It features a striking blue circuit board on a blackish/navy blue background. Finally, it shouldn’t be confused for a very similar design from uneetee we mentioned several months ago.
This week technologists will be busy detailing the latest doodad and gizmo from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). However, Mac faithful are salivating over MacWorld, the Apple announcement-palooza that gets underway January 14th. If you happen to be one of those who prefers the Jobs’ reality bubbles check out this shirt from InsanelyGreatTees.com - Apple Timeline. It lovingly recounts the 30 year history of style over substance Apple devices. Shirts are priced at $17.
Previously featured InsanelyGreatTees featured on Militant Geek include an homage to shutterbugs. Other great Apple shirts worth mentioning are the Fake Steve Jobs Shirt.
Like many readers here I tend to prefer shirts that portray the wittier, more sophisticated side of geekdom (like MacGyver toilet paper humor) than perpetuate the trite stereotypes. However, sometimes I stumble upon a shirt that is just too goofy not to share - in this case its “Keepin’ I.T. Real” from T-Shirt Hell. Your piece of cultural perception re-enforcement (and a nice play on an urban slang) for $18.
More from Hell as seen on MilitantGeek:
