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I'm seeing it right now. A mobile phoncall from man-dear:
"Honey, who's that womans voice at the other line?"
"Well, that's m..." *Disconnected*
*Phone rings*
"Sorry honey, I forgot to keep pumping... erm... my battery"

I personally the solution in te Forever Flashlight is a much more robust and feasible solution than this.

I think someone is out playing capture the b33r.
I just hope they don't get sniped.

• they like processed food less
  
• they are less fat
  
• they focus less on using English as their unique communication language
  
• they spend less of their money in stupid gadgets
  
• they stink less
  
• they kill less
  
• they lie less
  
• read slashdot (and cnn and foxnews...) less
  

My only question is, how soon before Thinkgeek.com gets these? :)

the dimensions of a poster probably make them a lot of trouble to ship

um no...they roll the poster and put it in a cardboard sleeve and mail it .

Linux Kernel Map Poster
Gentoo Linux Poster
Google for Linux Posters

as for a poster of Torvalds, I cant help you as I have an aversion to having posters of People on my walls, Landscapes/Paintings and cool Advertisment/Techie type stuff only please.

I really like your sig. So much so that I bought the t-shirt that you took it from.

Are you so unoriginal that you need to get your sigs from t-shirts ?

The Logitech io Digital Pen and the USB Memory Pen.

These seem to be more for the rich geek, unfortunatly I'm only a poor geek. So I just use a Pilot Gel Pen.

The Logitech io Digital Pen and the USB Memory Pen.

These seem to be more for the rich geek, unfortunatly I'm only a poor geek. So I just use a Pilot Gel Pen.

everyone calling these board members at home and sell them the merits of Slashdot or ThinkGeek? After all it wouldn't be harrassment as long as you are calling to solicit these sites for their unique geekness eh? Sic em Slashdotters.

What, like the oft-toted-on-slashdot Forever flashlight, available at compgeeks for $10-$20 less?

Or conversly i'd like a distro about 1/4 the size of knoppix that could fit on a usb drive or this.

The George Foreman iGrill: Available at ThinkGeek

The George Foreman iGrill: Available at ThinkGeek

You can see very clearly in this shot. Actually the little loop that excess watchband slides under(it says USB on it in the pic)is a hard plastic that clicks back and forth. Slide it towards the buckle the cable end pops out, put the plug back into the molded slot in the band and click it back away from the buckle and the plug and cable are locked into the band. I love it, its one of the coolest/geekiest/convinient/most useful things i own. It's a tad pricy, i've never owned a watch that cost more than $20, but if you subtract the price of a comparable sized USB drive your still getting a very nice/stylish watch for about $50. More info can be found at the companys website.

me too. analogue. or this

Since you have one do you mind tell me if the little cable attached to the watch is removable, and if yes where to keep it short of having it loose in a pocket. I looked at the pictures but it is not obvious.

Since you have to ask, I guess they've done a good job of hiding it. The USB cable snaps into the band of the watch, it's pretty clear once you realize that's what it is in this picture:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/5eec/imag es/

So the cable's short, which means you probably would have to remove your watch to use the storage most of the time... still cool. And you could keep a a 3' extension cable in your pocket/laptop bag/whatever for more convenient use.

It's currently out of stock, but I'd love to have one of these!!

First of all, the geekiest stuff is often home-build... have about contracting out to build something? I've always wanted to make one of these.... VP's are good at messing up computers so why not make it easy and geeky too!

Alternately, you can always shop at thinkgeek or compgeeks

Of course, much of my geeky pipedreams have involved cool places to put a flat panel display. How about something rigged up with a USB-flat-panel that looks like a desktop picture (but can change, or is animated). I know I've seen support for usb-flat-panel in my recent kernel version, so I'd assume the hardware is out there. Better yet, if you could fit it into a real picture frame so that it looks realistic, and enable it as default output for video-conferencing software: functional+geeky.

And of course, if you wanted to go outside the office (I doubt this would fly in most companies), replacing the ol' car stereo with a custom-wired miniPC (don't forget voltage-backing capacitors or a failsafe for when spikes/ignition), and perhaps an LCD that pops out of the glove?

Wireless is always cool. Go with the picture frame, but set it up wireless somehow so that it's as hard-to-figure as possible. You might even be able to do something with an old ebay laptop and a little wiring of the video connector through the desk. Anyhoo, just suggestions, and personal preference, but I'm sure there are lots of cool things one could do with miniturized PC components and a little time, and the custom-job is often much more unique/cool/geeky than stuff you find in even semi-geeky retail stores.

I'd think that one obvious place to look would be Slashdot's sister site, ThinkGeek. It has all of the latest and presumably greatest technobaubles that any geek could possibly want. Of course after getting ideas there you might want to shop around to see if you can get a better price, since I think that they're a bit on the high side pricewise.

Thinkgeek is your friend.

I've been drooling over this at ThinkGeek for months since I first saw this. Just can't justify $120.

Green Laser Pointer at ThinkGeek.com

http://www.thinkgeek.com

Particularly this, i love it, but unfortunatly i bought the 256Mb before the price drop and also shortly before the released a USB2 version which isn't carried by thinkgeek yet.

One useful:

The Handspring Treo 600

One not as much

Airzooka Air Gun

A co-worker of mine is kind of a USB nut:

• USB electric blanket
• USB coffee heater
• USB toothbrush
• USB fan
• omg wtf is this!
• USB 'Desktop safety fan' (?)
• USB light
• USB fingerprint reader
• USB police strobe
• George Foreman USB iGrill (knock out da USB fat!)
• USB electric razor
• USB noodle strainer

thinkgeek USB watch

...and if you don't know that, then, well, you shouldn't be watching TV. I mean really... selling on TV! Oooh! TV shows on broadcast TV are not some pristine, ad-free venues for directors and writers. They're corporate schlock designed to sell or to influence. Hell, the US gov't has been paying TV series for years if they include a "drungs are bad, m'kay?" theme in the story. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go purchase a fantastic /. t-shirt from Think Geek

I guess that means that my 40,000 (This x10) node beowulf cluster will still take more than 5 days to boot up. Darn.

Almost forgot this one...

games 3

Anything like these?

games 1

games 2

I think the reason so many folks chime in is that there are so many of us who don't fit this stereotype.

"Thousands of geeks stood up in protest of the stereotype, and then sat down again quickly out of breath."
No reason for stereotypes, people!

This is when the thinkgeek ads prove their utility :P

I'm concerned about new applications in surveillance.

While I'm sure remote gap-dropping is a long ways away, what if someone were able to place a sensing device on top of the gap between the chips? Who needs to decrypt someone's hard drive if they can just log memory transfers?

It's not like similar techniques aren't already in place. For example, I'm certain I heard about a case where someone put a keylogger on a mobster's computer. I know someone's used keyloggers at my college campus.

Here, here!

I agree. We could collectively 'work' for Slashdot as independant agents.

Hell, I'd do it for some free t-shirts.

Let's see if any of you wannabes can figure out what's wrong with this picture.

Hints to follow.

Another thing due to popular demand:

Old design
New design

They changed it from modem to LAN. :)

I usually hate people who make serious replies to "Funny moderated" comments, but here I go.

I'm not a member, but I subscribe to the ThinkGeek What's New RSS Feed. They showed up several hours ago on there.

Speaking of RSS, do Slashdot subscribers get an uncrippled RSS feed too?

But, maybe, if we try really hard, we can Slashdot the Slashdot T-Shirts about Slashdotting

Been there, done that, got the T-Shirt.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/slashdotted/busy.shtml

-Mr. Fusion

Since getting laid off in April.

Ive been wearing this when ever I leave the house, Yes I own several and wash them regularily

5. Thinkgeek.com Customer Fortune Maintainer.

I'm suprised that among all slashdotters, nobody mentionned this. I think it's probably Silly Putty (TM) with more intense properties.

my 2 cents

However, I'd like to see it go a step further and accomidate something that dispenses either hot or cold caffeinated goodies. Let's see one of these as a case mod centerpiece...

This guy's modded a monitor, the v2, (i know, uhg flash, but some of the stuff is pretty cool) Also i'd think the Mac CRTs we have at school, came with the G4s, completly transparent would be perfect to put some lights inside. Also i got these and this(also avalible at thinkgeek). Got both in blue and arranged them like in the pictures, they're quite bright and light up my desk pretty well. I had to lengthen the cable on one of the small ones to get it to the other side of the monitor, i attached the control boxes(off-sound reactive-on, and sensitivity) tot he back of my speakers. I got a usb card for something like $5 and wired the ports into the switchbox i made in my empty 3.5" bay. 4 switches with blue LEDs, one controls the case fan, one controls this inside the front of my case. Its one of those radioshack Compaqs with the changable transluscent front panels, it lights up pretty well. The other two switches control the monitor lights. Its a pretty simple but uniqe mod, no window, no cold cathodes. Inside though, round cables for improved airflow and the case fan is a blue led fan and it shines out the vents pretty well. E-mail me if you want pictures.

That pretty much leaves only one advertiser that might want to target Linux users. ;)

I love the Microsoft Intellimouse Optical - the slightly slimmer and uni-handed sister of the huge Intellimouse Explorer.

I like the Intellimouse Optical's button arrangement and size better than the Intellimouse Explorer, and I've been completely spoiled by having 5 buttons.

A few weeks ago my left-button started getting flakey (after maybe 4 years of use) so I checked-out what was available and was really amazed with the lack of comparable replacements. I needed: optical tracking, wheel, at least 5 buttons, but didn't want any wireless stuff (I already have a consumer-IR remote for that).

The Logitech MX500 fit the bill pretty good, but has both the extra buttons 4-5 on the thumb side and I prefer the Intellimouse Optical's arrangement. The Logitech MX310 looks nice, but I never saw it at any of the stores I went to. In the end, the Intellimouse Optical was still the only one I found that I liked.

Anyway, I managed to just replace the switch in my originally Intellimouse Optical with one from an old ball-mouse. I've found that most mice use the exact same part for the switches, so it's a simple de-soldering job to replace them. As the buttons are the only part that really wears-out on optical mice and I have lots of old ball mice to scavenge, I hope to keep re-building my current mouse for years to come.

Not the most complex mouse, but I love it for deathmatch. Sure, it does not have as many buttons as other mice, but I find the tracking on it to be excellent.*

You can still get these mice here. A good review can be found here.

* (Unless you get it on a surface that contains something white and glossy - then because of the dual optical cameras, the cursor can fly randomly about.)

My favorite mouse is also my current mouse, a Logitech Optical Wheel mouse

Any real geek could have a Dual Optical Mouse. Also available at Thinkgeek. That is definately my favorite mouse.

Look familiar?

The replacement job must be of the same wage, enjoyment and satisfaction, as well as be at the same location with the same people at the same desk with the same computer doing the same thing.


Do I get a Red Swingline Stapler?