This week was my birthday and I got lots of fantastic presents, wishes and drinks from friends and family. Coincidentally, I also had some cool, geeky gift ideas come to me via twitter/email etc:
For every writer (from Jen on Twitter): Font jewelry!
From Despair.com (also via Twitter): Social Media in a Venn Diagram
And of course, there are the great standards of SurlyRamics Skepticware (are you following @SurlyAmy on Twitter? You should be!) and Made with Molecules Jewelry.
What else is out there? Find me some cool, geeky gift ideas!
(Bonus points if you suggest anything NOT already discussed in the 2008 Skepchick gift guide! :)
Everyone needs a set of these:
http://www.parklifestore.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=PLS&Product_Code=COCAINE&Category_Code=HO
The Venn diagram is PRICELESS!
Yeah. The Venn diagram is excellent, and so true. I’d order it right now if shipping costs weren’t such a bitch.
Of course, if I bought every nerdy t-shirt I wanted I’d be broke:
http://www.bustedtees.com/iheartaccuracy
http://www.zazzle.com/69_tshirt-235397217877791376
Darwin Mouse http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25601585
Something that helps you see something from another person’s point of view:
http://www.despair.com/poofvigl.html
Something cute:
http://atheistempire.com/faithx/
@Bjornar: Gotta love the tees!
http://www.printfection.com/retro-future
Next is a little pricey: geek watches –
http://www.tokyoflash.com/en/watches/1/
And movies are nice too –
http://www.deepdiscount.com/Dr–Horrible-s-Sing-Along-Blog-Front-Page_stcVVproductId68467479VVcatId455832VVviewprod.htm
Bathsheba Grossman does some really cool science sculptures. I bought a crystal star map for a friend last Christmas and she loved it.
Also, shameless self-promotion: pi t-shirt, Avogadro t-shirt.
Oh, also Khet. It’s like chess, with frickin’ laser beams!
Thinkgeek. That is all.
What’s “TweetStalk”? That’s the problem with so many internet diagrams like that: there’s always at least one you’ve never heard of, and you wonder if maybe the design is just a clever bit of marketing for that site.
@Bevans: I believe you use it to follow someone without actually following them.
ThinkGeek is where I always send friends and family when they ask me what I want for a gift:
http://www.thinkgeek.com
Anything from the FSM store
Nervous System jewelry is great for math and science geeks.
At I Heart Guts you can get plushies of bodily organs.
Oo – also: For lit geeks, a light that looks like a book!
Or or or! You could make a mix CD of geek rock and label it using waveforms to represent the songs like this one.
I’m fond of the posters/tees at xkcd, in particular the Stand Back shirt.
(and the preview button is failing on my browser, so apologies if html-code turns up wonky)
A handheld GPS, and a premium subscription to geocaching.com.
Taking advantage of billion dollar satellite technology in order to find tupperware hidden in woodlots, or film canisters under parking lot lampposts is incredibly geeky.
Wowie! Made with molecules jewelry is pretty cool, but the Nervous System stuff is just totally beautiful. Want!
For my birthday, get yourself something… a plane/bus/train ticket or a carpool together for a trip to Chicago! Give yourself the gift of a great party!
For my birthday, I’m giving myself shameless self-promotion!
First of all thank you for mentioning Surly Ramics. I do so appreciate it!
2nd Id like to say that the ultimate geek gift would have to be a trip to TAM 7 in Vegas…where I will be in all my surly-nerdy-drunken-glory! Join the party… and see you soon!
Ooh. I so want that new despair glass!
And there’s something very wrong with me. I find the tokyoflash watches to not be geeky enough. I don’t want twelve leds representing the hours, I want them to show the hours in trinary!
I also like the onehorseshy website, they have some cool stuff in the “highbrow” section, and you can order it printed on clothing and other stuff:
http://onehorseshy.com/highbrow/