Militant Geek Custom Shirts

Those in the Apple camp continue to amaze me. A year after being gouged for $600 for a phone the same people are lining up for a slimmer, fancier, phone whose extended contract actually costs more than the original. But hey, people love their gizmos and people most definitely love their iPhones.

A big part of that love is do to what’s called ‘Cocoa Touch’. It’s a collection of APIs developers can use to create apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch. And yes, people are cuckoo for it. It’s available for $19.95 from Zazzle.com. Props to Fashionably Geek for the find.

Nintendo’s Wii, by any punditry standards, has been a fabulous success. Derided by many before its launch as been too strange and underpowered, the little box named for a piece of male anatomy continues to charm. However, as any Nintendo fanboy knows, the creator has a long history gaming success. The folks at NerdyShirts have gone and collected the many and varied consoles from recent history onto one striking shirt. Personally, while I would have liked the family tree to extend back to show Nintendo’s playing card roots I’ll settle for the products relevant in the age of Mario.

This fine piece of geek apparel can be purchased from Nerdy Shirts for $20. Props to Fasionably Geek for the reference.

Kyle was kind enough to write in and let me know about his shop, Electric Zombie. While many of the designs are a bit more on the horror/novelty side that what I usually feature on Militant Geek I found this gem, ‘OCP-IZZA’ buried on page 2. Its part of his new summer line.

The full body image is extremely striking and it features everybody’s mediocre movie robot hero (eclipsed, perhaps, only by Darkman as beening a great character in poorly executed theater). The shirts are a very attractive $16.

It has been much too long since the Militant Geek store has seen a new t-shirt. While finding incredible geek designs amongst the chaff and bringing them together in one place is rewarding sometimes there is just a shirt I want that doesn’t exist. For that very reason the Militant Geek store exists.

The goal (for now) is to have a new design every other Monday. We kick things off today, on the 16th of June, with a lovely imagining of just what the geek put-down Urban Amish would look like. Often seen in the wild, our wayward techie ruefully clutches his Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. Reflect how you see the plebeians around you. Wear the Urban Amish Homage TShirt to honor those less mentally strapping.

Previously on Militant Geek I had covered Jeremy’s lovely science based store, Wear Science. The designs were so great I couldn’t pick just one.

Now the folks at Amorphia Apparel are back but with a twist. Instead of being pro-science, their new store - ‘Teach the Controversy‘ - has a handful of laugh inducing ‘arguments’. The shirt featured here, Geocentric, is available in a number of different colors and starts at $14.99.

Does the world really need more Star Wars themed apparel? Judging by the sheer Jedi saber raising nature of this sexy design the answer is yes and please. And anyone else find it incredibly appropriate that the subject of a mass produced tshirt is a clone?

The design is from BangBangT-Shirts and will cost 11.99 pounds (but they do offer free worldwide shipping).

So you may have been wondering why the recent lull in posting. Why, you ask? My friend, did you not get the email? Of course you didn’t - because the Internet was closed. That is if by ‘Internet’ I’m referring to my ‘attention span’ and by ‘closed’ I mean ’somewhere else’.

‘The Internet is Closed’ is another in a series of great shirts by Threadless (affiliate link, non affiliate link). The shirt runs $12 for guys and $14 for gals. Thanks to TCritic for the find.

When it comes to geek finery sometimes I think I get too focused on only technical or sci-fi oddities. In reality, the land of geekdom is full of social misanthropes and quirky neurosis to fill a hundred of Mariah’s closets.

Take, for example, ‘Deflated Defenses’ from Glennz Tees. They obviously saw the huge renaissance fair contingent, weighed it against the legion of bouncy castle practitioners, and came up with an epic mashup to appeal to thousands (if not millions) who belong to both camps. Or maybe it just made them laugh. For $19.95.

What could I say about Wikipedia that already hasn’t been said? Depending on what pundit you may be sitting closest to its either the repository of all that’s worth knowing (that’s not pr0n) or the victory of bully masses over reasoned scholarship. All I know is its where I look up my Dr. Who factoids.

This brilliant shirt from Busted Tees perfectly captures the ying and yang of the source that everyone love to doubt. You can have yours (no citation needed) for $18.99.

Dexterity This shirt has me torn. At first glance its a clever, albeit juvenile, tie in with a pop culture phenom that has been making a subtle comeback. On the other hand, it gives me great pause when I recall the words of Uncle Mort describing the “great pleasure” he derived from the “hours and hours” spent on the cube. Its that kind of ‘is-it-or-is-it-not-a-double-entendre that makes family reunions such hell. Don this tee at your own risk.

Rubix Cube shirt from Wicked Cool Stuff for $17.99. Tip ‘o the hat to Fashionably Geek for the find.