Militant Geek Custom Shirts

It’s Monday again. Time to drag your party weary self out of the comfort of a snugly weekend and into the bleak wasteland of faux relationships. The people at Threadless feel your pain. They’ve created this homage to the relentless grind. Entitled ‘Corporate Ladder’ it depicts the rabid pursuit of ever higher office space. After all, who needs job satisfaction when you’ve got a desk with a view.

While you may be powerless at work at Militant Geek, however, you’ve got a choice. You can buy this shirt using the affiliate link and help this site out. Or, you can go about your merry tshirt buying way and use the nonaffiliate link. Have a happy Monday!

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.

Let’s set aside, for a moment, that anything which puts a clever spin on the Star Wars franchise is cool. Combine that with eight years of “aggressive” foreign policy and you arrive at this shirt from Bant-Shirts.com. Now maybe, just maybe implying the Republican party is the dark side is going a bit far. Then again, if you squint just right a hooded Dick Cheney is easily mistaken for Emperor Palpatine. Spooky yet true!

Start Wars! is available for $17.50. Props to Chewing Glass Tees for the inspiration.

So it’s quickly coming to the end of another long week. And despite loving this Internet Piracy Shirt from Jinx.com, I’m entirely too vexed to provide a proper description.

Link to ThaSlayer for his compiled wish list of Jinx.com loot (or is it booty? I can never keep my pirate and hip-hop references straight).

Oh, those lovable scamps over at Penny Arcade. They’re known for producing numerous comics that are nearly incomprehensible without a Moby-Dick sized tome of back story. They also make a great shirt. Case in point: John Gabriel’s Greater Internet Dickwad Theory. It’s awesome because its true. Available for $17.99. Props to TCritic for the notice.

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.

AOL company moral has to be soaring. Rumors of a mid-December layoff where confirmed when a number of employees didn’t receive invitations to the company Christmas party - classy. Opportunistic photoshoppers (and these days, who isn’t?) spent the time between the initial discovery and the ensuing stuffing of pink slips into stockings working on a number of fake shirts now posted on Flickr. The ‘2007 Annual AOL Xmas Layoff’ collection doesn’t actually exist outside of images (at least not yet). But for those who’s perceptions that AOL was a good career choice have now been popped the shirts-that-could-be might be worth a look.

You’ve got to hand it to Apple’s Steve Jobs: he’s elevated the practice of product pitching to an artform. The problem, however, is with art comes an awful lot of expectation. So when the 2007 Apple Developer conference was a bit of a snoozer geeks were quick to pile on - including Rick from MacMerc who let his sentiments be known in T-shirt form.

The shirt has gone to be something of story itself. Crunch Gear has linked to it. Gizmodo also has a post. Even the T-shirt connoisseurs are getting into the act.

Timely tech news + wearable spite = great Tee!

As you may remember Sony got into a bit of a pickle in the Christmas of 2005 when intrepid sleuths discovered that Sony music CD’s were installing rootkits onto user’s machines. The trials and tribulations continued well into 2006, causing some (like yours truly) to whip of T-Shirt designs like the one on the right. (We’ve since retired those shirts from the store.)

Firewheel Design, the fine folks behind useful apps like Blinksale and IconBuffet are getting rid what’s left of their Rootkit T first run. In full Firewheel fashion the design is fun and bubbly. They’re 100% pure cotton and are priced at $15. Shipping is $4 to anywhere in the US.

A few weeks ago Kevin Rose and the rest of the Diggnation crew got into a bit of hot water when their users went and posted the ’secret’ code used to unlock HD-DVD movies. The resulting events caused the code to go nuclear, fallout spreading far and wide throughout the debris of our cultural landscape.

Jinx, fine makers of game related T-Shirts, has carefully commemorated that moment in a fine tee. But wearing this isn’t just a silent tribute to modern DMCA madness. For every shirt sold $2 will be donated to the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). Prices vary from $14.95 - $17.95 and sizes run from S-XL. You can order the shirts from the Jinx website.

Radio broadcasters have always paid royalties for the music they play. Those nickels and dimes go to one of two major collections agencies to later be turned over to composers and publishers. Performers and labels did not get paid royalties because it was assumed that radio, rightfully so, provides promotion for an act and that promotion would sell albums. However, with their finances in free fall, the music industry is looking for whatever rock to squeeze blood from that it can. The latest from the LA Times reports the labels are petitioning congress. The hope to overturn the radio ‘promotion’ exception.

The battle pits the loathsome RIAA against nearly equally dubious media conglomerates like Clear Channel. While I can superficially state that I want the side who will best benefit the artists to win I have a hard time seeing this as anything other than a turf war between two corporate bullies.