Tag: Geeky

How funny would it be if this thing Red Rings? And then when the owner returns it to Microsoft for repairs, it comes back with the bling “cleaned off”. Actually Microsoft owns this special Xbox. Microsoft Australia, to be exact.

Remember Google’s short and sweet Search Stories ads? Have your own naughty nerdy inspirational tale to tell? Now’s your chance! The big G recently launched the Search Stories Video Creator, so now anyone can create and upload his or her own Search Story in just three easy steps.

You think the Dark Lord will help you know what time it is? FOOL! His Force Pose will distract you for hours on end! And when you finally break free of his spell, you’ll have to squint real hard to read the tiny LCD display with the current time on it.

There is absolutely nothing in my closet that would go well with these Wario Nike Dunks, but I still want one. I WANT ONE!!!

Nathan Sharratt’s Big Sister costume looks as menacing as its video game counterpart: When Bioshock was released, Nathan Sharatt made a Big Daddy costume. Now that the game’s sequel is out, it makes sense that he’d make a Big Sister costume too.

Alyce Santoro’s Sonic Fabric line of neckties not only look cool, but they should hold a special appeal for New Yorkers: they’re made using 50% colored thread and 50% cassette tape, and the latter has been recorded with “loops and samples collected on and under the streets of NYC.”

Psi169 joined the Sprite Stitch forums with a bang, showing off a 2-foot by 3-foot cross stitch of the various iterations of Mario through the years, as well as the power ups that have aided him in his adventures.

The Armory has a 100-item Nerd Purity Test with questions ranging from reasonable (Have you ever programmed a computer?) to absurd (Do you know the Latin name for the fruit fly?) to just plain hilarious (Is your weight less than your IQ?).

A lot of gamers – myself included – prefer to use the third-person point of view when driving vehicles in video games. I just find it easier to steer if I can see how far my vehicle is from a turn; in first-person I always end up steering too late.

A remake of Star Wars: A New Hope will come out soon, but it won’t be a re-master, and it won’t feature big-time actors. Using the unlimited power of the Internet, A New Hope has been split into 472 15-second scenes, and the remake of each scene is up to any willing contributor, free to stamp their own unique take on the geektastic classic.

So you think Pac-Man likes eating those yellow pellets huh? You think the brightly colored maze and ghosts are cute? Think again! I didn’t know that that yellow wakka wakka wakka-ing mouth is actually a living, breathing person trapped in physical and drug-induced mazes by a cruel man who clearly saw too much of, uhm, Saw!

You’ll never fail a Cleanliness check with the D20 Geeksoap. This 4 oz bar – dice? – of soap is made of “natural oatmeal-based vegetable glycerin and moisturizers, enriched with aloe and vitamin E” and comes in several scents.

Everyone expected a comic app for the iPad, and Marvel delivered. Marvel Comics for iPad is a lot like iTunes, combining a comic book store and a reader into one app. The reader allows for page-by-page as well as frame-by-frame scrolling, and there are thumbnails at the bottom that let users skip to any page.

Who says LEGOs have no place in the grown-up world? The table was made by abgc architecture for ad agency Boys And Girls. The agency revamped their new Dublin offices, which had “décor that was decidedly solicitory” and turned it into a simple and bright space similar to an art gallery, with the LEGO table as the centerpiece.

What can you do with a bunch of beads and a LEGO Mindstorms kit? Make a fully functional jumping Mario question mark block sculpture, that’s what.

Why can’t fighters resolve their conflicts using more constructive means? Can’t they just all get along? How awesome would it be to see Reptile and Raiden baking instead of dismembering each others’ limbs?