Militant Geek Custom Shirts

Ok, so there are a lot of caffeine molecule tshirts on the Interwebs. They are nearly as ubiquitous as the ‘No Place Like 127.0.0.1′ apparel. (Did I miss the memo that every geek is supposed to create that when first let loose in CafePress?)

So why am I featuring this particular version from Digital Militia? First, the design is nice and big: caffeine’s effect isn’t small and neither should its representation. Second, they picked a nice Matrix/Xbox’y green that screams geek cred. Finally, I have to tip my hat to the name ‘Digital Militia’ - it’s got a certain ring that hearkens back to another TShirt site I’m particularly fond of. Put that all together in a package that checks out at $17.95 and you’ve found the best of a very, very trite design.

So what’s cooler than having your genetic code graphed out? How about wearing that graph? Ok, so maybe this shirt isn’t your exact code (more like some dude’s code) but its still pretty freaking cool (not to mention a smart safety precaution in an era of rouge evil geneticists). The shirt comes by way of Wired and can be bought for $22.50 from the AAAS association (the American Association for the Advancement of Science for those peeps not in the know).

Whether being shot into space, flummoxing creationists with their genetic similarities, or torturing Charlton Heston monkeys are the bomb. And now comes this shirt from redbubble.com encouraging monkeys to take up their beakers in solidarity with their human chemistry cousins. After all, if a thousand monkeys typing for a thousand years on a thousand typewriters will churn out Shakespeare imagine what a room full of monkey chemists and everyone’s favorite xanthine alkaloid compound could do.

‘E=MC Bananas’ from redbubble for $23.94.

Now why would I highlight a design that, at first glance, could be mistaken for the cover of a troubled tween’s notebook? Because of the clever chemistry geek homage, of course! This shirt, from ThinkGeek (Affiliate Link, Non-Affiliate Link) as seen on Rare Bird Finds, costs between $14.99 and $16.99.

Other ThinkGeek shirts as mentioned on MilitantGeek:

• WiFi Detecting T for Geeks
• I Void Warranties Shirt
• Animated Transformer TShirts
• “I’m in your blank blanking your blank.”

All this week on MilitantGeek we’re scouring the hand-crafted depths of Etsy, a fantastic outlet of unique wonders. While there is a ton of stuff that either isn’t relevant (or just plain ugly) the diligent geek can discover some wonderful treasures to be worn. Here is one of them!

Because Etsy has from any number of influences the source of inspirations are incredibly varied. For instance, take this shirt from Etsy user Ikyoto. He scoured vintage Japanese science textbooks for the wacky, profane, and downright odd (after all, this is the nation that invented tentacle porn - why should their scholastic texts be any different?). Here we see iron attempting to ward off rust from attacking air, water, and… um… fruit juice? Prices start at $15. And if this chemistry geek-er-y is your thing also check out Ikyoto’s Evaporation T.

Alocoholics Chemistry geeks have it rough. While some examples do exist there just aren’t that many wearable examples for this unique addiction niche.

However, Threadless is trying to change that. This week they released their ‘Tasty Table’ TShirt. It cleverly rewrites the period table with all those things necessary for life as we know it (it starts with alcohol and ice and runs through vermouth). Guy’s tees start at $15 and are available in shirt and hoody styles. Pick one up for your favorite alcoholic chemist today.

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Other than Think Geek’s Classic Caffeine Molecule Shirt our Chemistry Haxx0rs don’t have walk-a-wear for their predilections. However, today I’m pleased to announce that apparel catering to their needs has doubled with this awesome shirt from Brian Wu. Like the best designs it combines a number of aspects: revelations of toxic chemicals showing up in Chinese-made toothpast and slavishly applying Chinese characters to things because it ‘looks cool’ despite not knowing what it ‘means’.

In this case the characters roughly say ‘two sweet alcohol’ - a reference to the diethylene glycol that wound up making people sick. How often do you get a political, cultural, and fashion statement all in one? For $19.99 from Cafepress, not nearly often enough.