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MilitantGeek Super Tuesday Special! It takes a very special TShirt to be both geek and political. In one of the most contested elections in a generation Militant Geek highlights some great tees leading up to Super Tuesday this February 5th.

TODAY IS THE DAY! By this evening 20+ states will have (hopefully) narrowed down the field of candidates and further determined just who we’ll be completely sick of come November. However, as you head to the polls I offer up a lesser know ticket for your consideration: Mario-Luigi in 2008. Why Mario?

• Mario has extensive experience besting Koopa based terrorism
• Peach as first lady would be the logical heir to the Kennedy Camelot legacy
• Luigi, having played 2nd fiddle for decades, is uniquely prepared for a vice presidency

If you’d like to further the candidacy of this honorable American, fresh from his diplomatic tour of the Galaxy, head over to ThinkGeek.com (Affiliate Link, Non-Affiliate Link). Prices range from $14.99-$16.99.

I have to agree with Andy, who writes the wonderful HideYourArms blog: exploded hardware designs are hot. That’s hot like - the - graphics - card - needed - to - play - Crysis hot, not hot like - your - mom - hot. This awesome hoodie will cost you $45 from WireAndTwine.com and, frankly, worth every coin casually loitering about Mario 3. Now if they just had an exploded nun chuck for the right side… Even without the other peripheral, however, the hoodie still makes other Wii-themed merchandise - like the Gaming Glove seem positively lame.

Other geek themed hoodies spotted by Hide Your Arms and featured on MilitantGeek:

• Hardware Hoodie from Cell Dvsn

… make sure it is this incredible 23 minute Odyssey like epic that’s currently circulating the series of tubes. While game play is normally the domain of nerds references to electron firings make the comedy gold geek enough for us.

As mentioned the whole video is profanity drenched and NSFW - unless you happen to have a good set of headphones and your coworkers don’t question random bursts of laughter.

Kotaku brought to our attention an incredible eBay auction of drool worthy proportions. Nearly every major console from the last 20 years (with original boxes, no less) is up for sale. Ataris, Nintendos, Segas - you name it, its there.

But why would a collection so dutifully preserved be callously flung upon the roasting spit of capitalism? Apparently the owner is getting married. Just goes to show that when it comes to life some knobs are more important than others.

We’ve spent quite a bit of time since CES talking about the rabid nature of Apple’s zealots. Of course, they’re aren’t alone. Gaming has more than its fair share of ideological rallying cries. Of course, when the product is the Nintendo Wii, who can blame them?

I give the following video 3 stars of excellence for the well placed Mario sound clips, but a demotion for the synchronized dancing. Have the boy bands of yore taught us nothing?

This weekend both Sony’s Playstation 3 and Nintendo’s Wii next generation consoles were launched - and the aftermath’s couldn’t have been more different.

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The Playstation, a $599 power play for the future of electronic devices disguised as a game player, had a number of eye raising launch day happenings. Lots of recap from Endgadget: a PS3 crime spree, people shot, armed robberies, riots, police using pepper spray, and escaped rapists. You know, your normal, every day type of thing in the adrenaline soaked world of consumer electronics. Look for Jerry Bruckheimer to scoop up the movie rights.

In the other line were the polite Nintendo fanboys. Coverage from that event was described as nothing less than friendly, perhaps even genteel. Could it have something to do with the fact that the would-be Wii owners actually planned on playing with their purchases? That the over hyped and under supplied PS3 was nothing more than eBay bait? Is this what happens when geeks stop being nice, and start being entrepreneurs?