Geeky Jewelry

Filed Under Funny, Geek | 2008-08-12, 14:41

Stumbled across this on amazon.com this afternoon. It’s something special. And it even comes in yellow-gold and white gold. Yes, those are diamonds. ~~Email~~ Twitter replies not your thing? Well there’s also an ampersand and a question mark.

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Filling an office with packing peanuts, how to fake it

Filed Under Funny, Geek, Pranks | 2008-04-01, 16:05

I’ve always wanted to do the packing peanuts prank at work, but it’s usually prohibitively expensive and time consuming. Then I came across this page. A quick trip to the UPS store to purchase 28 cu ft of biodegradable packing peanuts (cost: $65), office supply store for paper and tape ($12), and a few beers later we were quite successful. The difficult part was that the offices here have a glass corner, so we had to setup some boxes inside to hold the paper in place, but in the end I think it really adds to the effect. Our coworker explained his thoughts when he came in the next morning as: “Oh my… they didn’t? no, they couldn’t, it’d take to much.. no, no way…”. For added effect we locked his door so that he couldn’t immediately confirm that it was a fake front. All of the reaction, a fraction of the time and cost. I love a good April Fool’s prank. There are a whole series of pictures of the whole process here (my photos) and here (photos by Mike Morris). Credit must also be given to Cristian Mueller and Mike Morris for being a part of this. Seems like three people are perfect to pull this off.

An Instructables on the simple procedure
More geeky pranks

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The MacBook Slow

Filed Under Funny, Geek, Pranks | 2008-01-15, 14:36

Don’t want to have to wait for your MacBook ~~Slow~~ Air? You can get the world’s thinnest laptop on eBay right now!

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Introducing a Puddle of Frogs

Filed Under Education, Funny | 2008-01-08, 03:23

Bits and Pieces has a post with a collection of collective nouns. You know, those weird terms you use to describe a group of things without using the word “group”. Here’s some of the more obscure ones:
# drove of pigs
# cartload of monkeys
# kindle of cats (kittens)
# rhumba of rattlesnakes
# convocation of eagles
# prickle of hedgehogs
# tons more here
And we would like to take this moment to propose that a number of frogs shall now be referred to as a “puddle of frogs”. Yeah, we made that one up, but who’s to say the other ones on the list weren’t just someone having fun?

BoingBoing Bingo

Filed Under Funny, Websites | 2007-12-02, 17:10

It started with a twitter. And an idea started forming. The domain was available and instantly registered. Heather and I worked on the code, and I spent an afternoon downloading and cropping images from BoingBoing to illustrate each square. And now we bring to you… BoingBoing Bingo!

It’s simple really, just print out the board, post it on your cubicle, have your friends do the same, and the first person to 5 in a row horizontally, vertically, or diagonally wins.

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AT-AT T-Shirts

Filed Under Art, Funny, SF Bay Area | 2007-11-13, 22:44

mooflyfoof pointed me to these incredibly awesome shirts (of course after she got one for herself so now I can get one or else we’ll match *fist shaking*). Not only is the design available on t-shirts, but also hoodies, and infant t-shirts. To clue in those not from the Bay Area:

According to George Lucas, the AT-ATs were based on the tripod fighting machines from The War of the Worlds. He also took inspiration from elephants and loading cranes in West Oakland–hence the nickname “elephant walker.”

via answers.com

Buy your own from the girl and rhino. If you’re curious about the West Oakland AT-ATs, may we suggest a flickr search?

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Fun With Perception

Filed Under Funny, Video | 2007-11-03, 14:09

Two entertaining videos from Shaun Micallef, an Australian comedian, that use some pretty good camera and set tricks.

Alcohol and Programming, the Ballmer Peak

Filed Under Funny | 2007-10-01, 13:22

xkcd has a great comic up that points out that I’m not the only one to notice the correlation between drinking and programming:

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Segway, the beta version

Filed Under Funny | 2007-08-05, 09:54

via Kim Chee Blog

Windows Bluescreen Tattoo

Filed Under Art, Body Modification, Funny | 2007-07-26, 18:50

We recently posted some geeky video game tattoos, but in the world of geek tattoos, this one definitely ranks pretty high up there. A guy named Paul got this homage to the part of Windows 98 that we all curse to this day done by Sam Rulz of Two Hands Tattoo in New Zealand. Wow….

via ModBlog

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