cd in style with this ~/ Sweet ~/ Welcome Mat via ThinkGeek.

Writer and illustrator Rich Burlew has been writing The Order of the Stick, a comedic webcomic about D&D-style roleplaying games and medieval fantasy, for nearly 10 years. In addition to the online versions, Burlew has been self-publishing hard copy compilations for his fans. The third and largest anthology went out of print in 2010, so Burlew is turning to Kickstarter to raise funds for a second printing. As of this writing, he has raised $393,807, making his fundraiser one of the top 10 highest funded Kickstarter projects to date, and notably, the only book project in the top 10.

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Magneto by Deadly Sweet

Rin Okumura (Blue Exorcist) by Deadly Sweet

Link by Deadly Sweet

Yoda Plush, commissioned piece, by Deadly Sweet

Minky Totoro by Deadly Sweet

Canada-based artist Michelle Coffee crafts her delightful art plush dolls, Plushes, in the shape of all kinds of geeky subjects like Magneto, Rin Okumura and Yoda. Most designs are for sale at her Etsy shop, Deadly Sweet.

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photos by Michelle Coffee

The Star Trek Electronic Door Chime by ThinkGeek is a motion sensitive door chime styled after the Star Trek wall communicator panels from the original series. The chime makes either the starship Enterprise door opening “swoosh” sound, or the red alert siren.

The Social Shower Curtain by SpinningHat is a great way to bring social networking into the bathroom.

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YouTuber crysknife007 has isolated the ambient engine hum of the Starship Enterprise as heard in Star Trek: The Next Generation. The sound is looped repeatedly into a 24 hour long YouTube movie.

One of my favorite things about the Star Trek franchise are all the great ambient sounds that represent the engine noise on the various ships. My favorite ambient noise from the whole series is the engine idling noise in TNG. I have cleaned up a sample from the show and then looped it for 24 hours. Great for ambiance and imagining that you’re in deep space.

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CPU Wars is a simple trump card game in which computer processors (and their specifications) are pitted against one another. The game’s creator, Harry Mylonadis, collected 30 processors spanning the past 40 years of computer development in order to create the game’s cards. He’s raising funds for the game on Kickstarter.

The Nerdist Way, a guide to success and happiness in nerd life by noted nerd evangelist and comedian Chris Hardwick.

From keeping their heart rate below hummingbird levels to managing the avalanche of sadness that is their in-boxes; from becoming evil geniuses to attracting wealth by turning down work, Hardwick reveals the secrets that can help readers achieve their goals by tapping into their true nerdtastic selves.

Here Nerds will learn how to:

• Become their own time cop
• Tell panic attacks to go suck it
• Use incremental fitness to ward off predators

A Nerd’s brain is a laser-it’s time they learn to point and fire!

My Little Geek is a educational ABC board book created for young children that teaches them everything from “Android to Zombie”. It was authored and self-published by the New Zealand-based couple, Andrew Spear and Sarah Spear.

Imagine the joy of hearing your two year old chatting away about his holographic ninja or time traveling joystick. From Android to Zombie, this educational book will keep the little ones and parents entertained all night long.

There is also a complementary My Little Geek Matching game available for the iPad.

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The “2012 Time Travel Calendar” by graphic designer Alex Griendling is a wall calendar that lists 2.6 billion years of notable time travel events from movies, TV shows, comics, and videogames. Griendling is raising funds for the project on Kickstarter.

There are 97 different properties in the calendar. Each one has a unique icon that represents it. Some of these only show up once (Calvin and Hobbes, I’m looking at you), while others show up multiple times (Star Trek, anyone?). All together, there are 155 instances of time travel. Aside from learning about time travel movies you’ve never heard of, it’s always fun to see properties you’re familiar with line up with each other. Did you know that while Marty was saving Doc Brown from Mad Dog Tannen in 1885, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were battling Leatherhead aboard a speeding train? Now you do.

Iris 9000 by ThinkGeek is a retro futuristic speakerphone dock for the iPhone 4S and its Siri voice assistant inspired by the power hungry AI computer HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. It allows an iPhone 4S owner to speak to Siri from up to 50 feet away. Iris 9000 will be available in April, 2012.

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Fifteen People You’ll See At Every Video Game/Comic/Nerd Convention by Dorkly

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BuzzFeed has crated The Ultimate Nerd Guide To New York City, just in time for New York Comic Con this week.

Music geek Leslie Simon has authored a book titled Geek Girls Unite: How Fangirls, Bookworms, Indie Chicks, and Other Misfits Are Taking Over the World which is “a literary celebration of all the fangirls, fashionistas, bookworms, indie chicks, craft mavens, and other female misfits out there”.

The book has a corresponding blog, Geek Girls Unite!, which features weekly high-profile geek girls such as Meghan McCain, Chlöe Sevigny, Jenny Lewis, and many more.

What do Amy Poehler, Bjork, Felicia Day, Martha Stewart, Miranda July, and Zooey Deschanel have in common? They’re just a few of the amazing women proving that “geek” is no longer a four-letter word.

In recent years, male geeks have taken the world by storm. But what about their female counterparts? After all, fangirls are just like fanboys—they put on their Imperial Stormtrooper Lycra pants one leg at a time.

Geek Girls Unite is a call to arms for every girl who has ever obsessed over music, comics, film, comedy, books, crafts, fashion, or anything else under the Death Star. Music geek girl Leslie Simon offers an overview of the geek elite by covering groundbreaking women, hall-of-famers, ultimate love matches, and potential frenemies, along with her top picks for playlists, books, movies, and websites. This smart and hilarious tour through girl geekdom is a must-have for any woman who has ever wondered where her sassy rebel sisters have been hiding.

Simon is the Senior Creative Director for Warner Bros. Records and is also the author of Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide to Your Favorite Music Scenes and co-author of Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture.

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A colorful board book titled HTML for Babies (Web Design for Babies, Volume 1) introduces web design concepts to babies. The book is authored by New York web designer John C. Vanden-Heuvel Sr. of code babies and “has 16 pages of bold colorful, positive words wrapped in loving HTML mark up tags for imaginative code geeks in training”. The book is the first in a three-part series.

It’s never too early to be standards compliant! Show your little ones HTML markup code along with letter forms to get them started on the visual patterns and symbols that make up the essential building blocks of the Web. The first in a three-volume set, originally designed by a NYC Web Designer for his baby, this beautiful book is a fun and colorful introduction to the world of web design for babies.

via Incredible Things

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Illustrator Len Peralta has been working on round 2.0 in his latest set of trading card series titled Geek a Week 2.0.
We posted about his first set of Geek a Week trading cards in May 2010. That first set included 52 geeks, while Geek a Week 2.0 will be more focused and include just 15 geeks.

His fundraising campaign for this series is underway and has already been completely funded, but with several weeks left, there is still time to donate and get some sweet custom pledge gifts.

images via Len Peralta

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has posted instructions on how to make your own LED necktie as seen in the classic 1978 music video “Die Roboter” by Kraftwerk.

photo by Windell H. Oskay

Donkey Kong inspired “Barrel Chucker“, a new RIPT t-shirt design by BeastPop Artworks on sale Friday (9/2) for $10.

Adafruit Industries has created the iNecklace, an aluminum open source pendant with a pulsating LED. Equipped with a circuit board, this piece comes with its own downloadable source code, circuit board files, schematics and CAD files, found on GitHub. A silver necklace is included with purchase, as is a velveteen box, perfect for gift-giving. Now ladies can step out on the town with their iCufflink-wearing pals.

Perfect for the playa or with Prada. Made for women who celebrate art, science, engineering and great design.

I appreciated their video that showed the pendant’s assembly process.

photos by Adafruit Industries and Becky Stern

Marcel Duchamp in the style of The Cramps

James Van Allen in the style of Van Halen

Stephen Hawking in the style of Wu-Tang Clan

Blaise Pascal in the style of Poison

Amorphia Apparel has released a line of fake band t-shirts for “history’s greatest minds” called Monsters of Grok. Designed by Jeremy Kalgreen, each band’s logo is cleverly mashed-up with a famous scientist or philosopher’s name.

I don’t know about you, but I think science and philosophy are pretty bad ass, so join me in rocking out with some the most influential thinkers of all time!

images via Monsters of Grok

Co-founder and Director of Brooklyn’s mechanical art “combine”, Madagascar Institute, “survivalist savant” Chris Hackett is returning to the Science Channel on August 18, 2011 at 10:30 PM with his television show, Stuck with Hackett. Viewers got an early sneak peek at the show in December 2010 during a Science Channel “special look at 2011″ programming week.

Presented as what happens “when MacGyver meets Survivorman“, Hackett searches out ‘obtanium’, his word for precious discarded junk, in a variety of places this season according to the show’s episode guide. These places include an abandoned hospital, an aviation junkyard, a grocery store dumpster and a plethora of other potentially unsavory locales.

Hackett has started blogging about his thoughts on the TV series, the inspiration for his craft and really, allowing his audience the chance to get to know him a little better in his own words at Stuck With Hackett. The Science Channel has even created a digital puzzle in his likeness.

Stuck with Hackett features “alternative engineer” and survival expert Chris Hackett. Each episode finds Hackett left alone in an extreme environment — from deep wilderness, to ruined cities, to arid deserts — with little more than his wits and ingenuity. The goal isn’t survival, however; it’s luxury…achieved by any means necessary.

photo via Science Channel

Today is the 12th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day, so make sure to give a big thanks to the awesome sys admins who keep your servers running and secure. We would like to give a special shout-out to our Laughing Squid Web Hosting sys admins Frank Escamilla and Shelby DeNike.

photo by Scott Beale

Soylent Green Crackers, available through ThinkGeek, taste just like Grandma used to.

Soylent Green Crackers are the food stuff the world has been waiting for. A pleasing green cracker is low in fat and full of spinach, high energy plankton, and a special blend of herbs and people. Wait, what? Did we say people? DID WE SAY PEOPLE? OH SNAP – SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!! Ok, it’s not really people. But Soylent Green Crackers are delicious and a great conversation piece. So remember, Soylent Green Crackers are not really made of people. Or are they?

See Also:

- Soylent Green T-Shirt Lets Everyone Know Your Ingredients

- Soylent Green Is People Magazine

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Delicious QR code cross stitch, this piece will read “Use A Fucking Coaster” when any curious onlooker or recipient scans it with their smart phone. Remind your guests not to be such beasts!

Inspired by Gaga, of course! Show Me Your Teef!

Aren’t you glad you’re still here to stitch this pattern?

Julie Jackson, the creative brain behind Kitty Wigs has another equally-as-amusing venture called Subversive Cross Stitch, which may best be described as “not your grandmother’s cross-stitch.” She takes the quaint embroidery craft of cross-stitching and turns it into something both highly amusing and well, subversive. Jackson, also a freelance monthly columnist for CRAFT, has a book on the subject published, Subversive Cross Stitch: 33 Designs for Your Surly Side. While she has been successfully doing this schtick for a while, some of her newer designs are worth noting like QR codes riddled with profane messages that actually read when scanned and those inspired by internet memes.

Most of her patterns can be downloaded as pdfs for “instant gratification.”

photos by Subversive Cross Stitch

See Also:

- Glamourpuss: The Enchanting World of Kitty Wigs
- Kitty Wigs, Stylish Wigs For Your Cat

Etsy vendor and Statistician, Nicole Dick of Nausicaa Distribution has taken her passion for statistics to a very nerdy level with her Statistical Distribution Plushies. And as if that wasn’t geeky enough, she used the open source program R to create the pattern for them.

via Waxy