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The “Mythbusters” Poster

by Joey deVilla on January 18, 2010

I love this “Drew”-style poster featuring the cast of Mythbusters:

mythbusters poster

If you’ve been to the movies sometime within the past 30 years, you’ve probably seen a poster by Drew. You can see a catalogue of his posters that were released here; there’s also a page of his “posters that never were”.

This article also appears in The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century.

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“I’m With @Stupid” T-Shirt

by Joey deVilla on January 9, 2010

Here’s what happens when the 1970’s “I’m with Stupid” t-shirt gets a 21st century Twitter upgrade:

Grey t-shirt featuring a pointing finger with a Twitter bird on it: "I'm with @Stupid"

This article also appears in The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century.

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The “Spock, Paper, Scissors” T-Shirt

by Joey deVilla on January 4, 2010

The T-shirt of the day at Tee Fury is sure to be a big hit fans of Star Trek and classic games. It’s the “Spock, Paper, Scissors” shirt:

Powder blue and slate versions of the "Spock, Paper, Scissors" T-shirt

Here’s a closer look at the design:

Close-up of the design: hand-drawn illustrations of Mr. Spock, a sheet of line 3-hole paper and a pair of scissors

The shirt sells for US$9 plus shipping. It comes in two versions:

  • Men’s: Slate blue, in sizes S, M, L, XL and XXL
  • Women’s: Powder blue, in sizes S, M, L, XL

If you want it, you’ve got until the end of the day today (Monday, January 4th) to place an order. Once the day ends, Tee Fury will retire the design from production.

This article also appears in The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century.

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For no other reason than the geeky amusement it will provide, here’s Wil Wheaton in a clown sweater:

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The Star Trek Movie’s Second Trailer

by Joey deVilla on November 18, 2008

Here it is, the second trailer of J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Star Trek movie, all hellzapoppin’ and complete with an homage to the "chicken run" scene from Rebel Without a Cause.

I’m keeping in mind that it’s the job of the people who produce trailers to make a movie seem more interesting and exciting than it actually might be, but I’m still holding out hope that Abrams has been taking the story-crafting skill he hasn’t been using on the TV series Fringe and pouring it into Trek. I guess we’ll find out in a few months…

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The Star Wars Storybook

November 18, 2008

It’s a busy day for me: I’m gearing up for my first presentation on behalf of "The Empire", which will happen at Microsoft’s TechDays event in Calgary (Wednesday, December 10th and Thursday, December 11th). More on that in a later post.
In honour of this preparation, I thought: here’s an opportunity to riff on the [...]

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Linux Bloat

August 8, 2008

It could be that programmers are getting larger, but it also could be that Linux Symposium is using American Apparel shirts. They’re supposedly not made in sweatshops and are made from really soft cotton, but they’re about a size smaller than the corresponding Hanes Beefy-T’s.

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Fear and Loathing at RailsConf

June 26, 2008

In Fear and Loathing at RailsConf, Giles Bowkett examines what it means to “Keep RailsConf weird”. It’s worth a read, especially if you’re attending, planning or gate-crashing RubyFringe.

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2008 Batman, Meet 1966 Batman

January 4, 2008

The Adam West Batman, hurling his batarang

What happens when you take the audio from the latest trailer for the upcoming Batman movie, “The Dark Night” and mix it with scenes from the campy 1966 Batman movie with Adam West?

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“Now, While Rails is Weak, We Must Strike!”

January 2, 2008

Preview: Rebel pilot briefing from “Star Wars: A New Hope”, with some Rails-specific changes made to the display of the Death Star

Of all the responses to Zed Shaw’s Rails is a Ghetto rant, the one in Jesse Stay’s blog is the most hilarious…

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The Star Wars Holiday Special

December 17, 2007

So Bad, Even George Lucas Wants Nothing to Do With It!
Even as an eleven-year-old back in 1978, I knew as soon as voice-over went…

with special guest stars…Beatrice Arthur! Art Carney! Diahann Carroll! The Jefferson Starship! Harvey Korman!

…that something was about to go terribly, terribly wrong with the Star Wars Holiday Special, a show so terribly [...]

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Pythagorean Pick-Up [Updated]

December 15, 2007

Don’t you wish stuff like this actually happened?
Click the comic to see it on its original page.Comic courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
You get bonus bragging rights if you spotted the missing precondition.

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Automan!

October 31, 2007

I’ve been tied up with all sorts of work- and life-related things, hence the lack of posts over the last few days.
By way of apology, allow me to offer the so-bad-it’s-good nerd TV show from the 1980s, Automan! Loosely based on the movie Tron and driven by the then-new interest in personal computers (this was [...]

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Geekery Meets Pop Culture

October 20, 2007

A Different Kind of “Code Smell”
First, let’s look at a new ad for Axe body spray…
Image courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
I think the suggestion in the ad goes double if you start pointing out what’s wrong with the code (“you == understand.this? get as an object name? Couldn’t they have hired a real programmer to [...]

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Shipping Container Geekery

October 19, 2007

Enterprise Computing in a Shipping Container
The idea of setting up a computing center in a shipping container isn’t new. Sun has Project Blackbox, “a prototype of the world’s first virtualized datacenter–built into a shipping container and optimized to deliver extreme energy, space, and performance efficiencies”. The idea is create a computing center that you could [...]

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