Culture Buzz The geeky Gandalf stamp has a positive Pokémon-inspired counterpart. And honestly, is there a better way to celebrate passing an exam than with a decent gaming joke? No, I didn't think so.
Culture Buzz Szoki is a Hungarian artist who uses classic art deco style to capture the essence of geek movies, making bad guys superbad and sexy ladies supersexy. (via Robot Mutant)
This wallet made of a original Nintendo controller by Brittany Lynch is pretty dern awesome. In fact I think that it could live very comfortably in my purse. These need to go on sale. (via The Uniblog)
Adorably geeky, and a real treat to read through. (By *yllya on deviantART). [Ed. note: Teach your kids how to read and how to be hopeless geeks at the same time!]
Culture Buzz For your daily moment of want: If you can't have your own portable nuclear accelerator with neutrona wand, the next best thing is a backpack that looks like it. Plus, more storage place, and a significantly reduced risk of total protonic reversal. Disclaimer: Does not actually fight ghosts. (Via)
Culture Buzz Botjira takes his sketches of characters and scenes from anime, video games, comics and sci-fi then covers them in clippings from colored paper and magazines to make these gorgeous collages. Here's just a sampling of his extensive collection. (Via)
Culture Buzz YouTuber Tigerpause444 creates modified motorcycle helmets with inspiration from movies and video games. They're no longer street legal but they do light up and change your voice. (Via Dvice)
Food Buzz From the Freemont Coffee Company with photos by Chrissy May. Wake yourself up with a steaming, hot cup of geekery!
Uncontrolled Nerd Rage in 3 … 2 … 1 … Go! [Ed. note: Speak up if you were way too busy looking at Kaylee in a Star Trek engineer's uniform to nerd rage as directed.]
It’s not so much that we doubt these women are actually into the “nerdy” stuff they say they’re into, more a question of why that’s always the first thing that comes up in an interview. (Via FilmDrunk)
Culture Buzz I made this costume for a LOTR themed party at a hobbit home and figured I'd share.
Math nerds! Help!!! This is really hard and fun. Make yourself useful for once! (Spiked Math, via TDW Geeks)
Culture Buzz Have you ever walked into a church, looked at the stained glass saints and wondered how much more awesome the place would look with Mario there instead? No? Well, you might now.
Style Buzz Hey nerds, you aren't wearing a plain apron to bake cupcakes, are you? Bethany Sew-and-Sew makes amazing aprons inspired by superheroes, video games and fantasy novels. Aprons range from $35-$50 dollars plus shipping. (From, via.)
In this short talk for Ignite, self-described Geek Comedian Tom Scott combines several real-world stories into a present-day scifi story.
Robert, a Gizmodo reader, decided to take the overcomplicated task of proposing to his girlfriend (of 9.5 years) and overcomplicate it further… by making a Rube Goldberg-device that would drop the ring into his hand. Geek love truly is an overly-technical and protracted thing, innit?
Pretty epic music video about being a creative professional. (Fuck Comic Sans; Fuck Papyrus, Too.)
Tech Buzz All you can do is sit back and wait. Trying to give useful computer tech tips to people not raised with computers? You'd have a better chance of convincing the pope not to molest little boys. [Via GeeksAreSexy]
This is how chemists get off. It's a little bit sad, honestly, but apparently it works for them.
Some super cute and super geeky nails painted to represent different Marvel superheroes.
What better way is there to say, “I married a geek” than with a wedding ring that streams photographs of your happy memories?
Science Buzz What would our Galaxy look like if we merged it with all the fictional planets we experience in every day pop culture? Artist Seven Hundred (AKA Steven Anderson) decided to find out. What's that strange moon where Alderaan used to be?
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/13/the-geek-alphabet/
The ABCs of geekery. Make your kids memorize this so they can have the same experience of social isolation that you did when your were in school.
Handy manual for interacting with sci-fi nerds. I think some people may be in several of these categories.
Tech Buzz Who hasn't dreamed of having their own R2 unit? You can do it like the guys in this video, or you can be lazy and just make one on paper like below. (Via The swedish bed.)
http://mashable.com/2009/12/27/twitter-facebook-2009/
What were Twitter and Facebook's top 2009 trends? What do they tell us about ourselves? And does anyone even really care? The answers to these, and other geektastic social networking conundrums over at Mashable. Plus, charts! Don't hurt yourself over there.