10 Geeky Christmas Decorations

GeekDad has a list of 10 Christmas decorations that you can buy, such as this Yoda tree topper in a festive Christmas red. Also available is a Cthulhu wreath, a Darth Vader nutcracker, and a model of Captain Kirk getting a new shirt as a present.

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UPDATE: More from io9, such as this Santa Cthulhu:

The God of Tetris

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The god of Tetris is displeased by your sacrifice, and will punish you with ill-fitting blocks. A video from College Humor.

Via Geekologie

Chain Mail Dice Bag

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Cooler than the Crown Royal bags that were fashionable in my day. Devon of the hacker collective NYCResistor made a dice bag out of chain mail.

via Make | NYCResistor

Geeky Tattoos

Geeky Tattoos is a photoblog of tattoos that any geek should be proud to bear, such as this transcription from the ring of power.

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How The Lord of the Rings Should Have Ended

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How It Should Have Ended is a collection of parody videos in which popular movies are remixed according to more sensible plot lines. Among those available: Braveheart, The Matrix, Transformers, and It's A Wonderful Life.


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Make Your Own Captain's Chair

Ben Bert always wanted to have a captain's chair from the original Star Trek series, but the cost for a pre-made chair was prohibitively expensive. So he modified his office chair to look like one. At the link, you can find step-by-step instructions and pictures.

Link via Nerd Bastards

Man Completes World of Warcraft

A Taiwanese man with a character known as "Little Gray" completed all 986 objectives in World of Warcraft and finished the game:

To reach the milestone the Taiwanese power-player killed 390,895 creatures, accumulated 7,255,538,878 points of damage, completed 5,906 quests (that's 14.62 quests per day, apparently), raided 405 dungeons and hugged 11 players.

Here's the sad part: once you achieve something like this, what is there left to accomplish in life?

Link via Wandering Goblin | Image: Blizzard Entertainment

Left 4 Dead Gingerbread Cookies

These cookies by reddit user YellowPoison put the fun back into the zombie apocalypse.

Link via Nerdcore

Samurai Mario

deviantART user William Chua of Singapore created this remix of Super Mario Bros. and classical Japanese illustration. He claims inspiration by both Super Mario Bros. and the game Monster Hunter.

Link via Geekologie | deviantART Gallery

Hamlet's Soliloquy Sounds Better in the Original Klingon

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via Wandering Goblin

Immanuel Kant Explained Using Superhero Comics

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In this video, Douglas Wolk explains the ideas expressed in 18th Century German philosopher Immanuel Kant's Critique of Aesthetic Judgment using superhero comics. Wolk, a comic critic, is the author of the book Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean. Run time: 5 minutes.

via Comics Alliance | Wolk's Blog | Background on Kant | Previously on The Zeray Gazette: Kant Attack Ad

This Has Been My Metaphysical Suspicion for Years

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From the webcomic Simulated Comic Product.

A Klingon Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol has been performed in the Klingon language for a few years by a troupe in Minneapolis. Pretty cool, but I think that it should also be translated culturally, as well as linguistically. Perhaps with Scrooge as a hero urging warriors to remember the true spirit of The Day of Honor.

Link via io9

Super Emo Friends

Artist J. Salvador lampoons Emo culture with this summation of the laments of superheroes.

Link via Popped Culture | Artist Website

If R2D2 Had Been Built by Hewlett Packard

From the webcomic Abstruse Goose, via Gizmodo

Pop Culture Wedding Invitation

Image: Maureen Alarid

Maureen Alarid of Off Beat Bride created this invitation for her wedding, featuring Admiral Ackbar's prudent advice about marriage. Alarid writes:

The wording [on the back] is my favorite part. It reads: '[We] request the honor of your presence as two geeks save the princess, resist the dark side and pledge their lives (extra, or otherwise) to each other.' And we snuck a Hyrulian crest in there too!

Link via Geekologie

Star Wars Facebook Updates

Yeah, but they're teddy bears that eat people, so don't feel too bad. Brian Murphy of CollegeHumor put together five Facebook update pages as though they had been written by Star Wars characters.

Link via Hell in a Handbasket

Che Trooper

In a juxtaposition of totalitarian imagery, artist Derek Fridman creates busts of Che Guevara and stormtroopers from Star Wars.

Link via Nerdcore

Time Traveler Essentials

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In an episode of The Twilight Zone, a businessman travels back in time and buys land where he knows oil was later discovered. But he's unable to capitalize on the purchase because the drilling equipment necessary to extract it hasn't been invented yet. Although he knows how to use the equipment, he doesn't have the ability to built it.

Such is a common complaint of time travelers: they know how to use modern technology, but have no idea how to duplicate it in a world that knows nothing of such marvels. So be prepared by keeping this image in your pocket at all times. It'll tell you the basic information you'll need to partially reproduce modern sanitation, medicine, measurement, and chemistry.

What would you add to the poster?

Larger Image and Product Page via Nerdist

Stained Glass d20

John F. Talarico of the podcast show Bloodthirsty Vegetarians created two 20-sided dice out of stained glass and black and copper patina. The orange one is called "Fire." There are more detailed images in the flickr photostream.

Image via d20 Blog | Flickr Stream | Official Website