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Caffeine.  Best friend to every geek.  Now, thanks to ThinkGeek , you can get your caffeine in soap form.  Forget drinking a cup of coffee first thing in the morning.  Just jump in the shower with your caffeinated soap and let the suds do the rest.

From the website:

“Tired of waking up and having to wait for your morning java to brew? Are you one of those groggy early morning types that just needs that extra kick? Know any programmers who don’t regularly bathe and need some special motivation? Introducing Shower Shock, the original and world’s first caffeinated soap from ThinkGeek. When you think about it, ShowerShock is the ultimate clean buzz.”

Sweet, sweet caffeine.

Oh, if only I could purchase one of these for my home office.  It would make paying bills and shredding credit cards so much more fun!

Apparently this is an art piece by  Tom Ballhatchet who is showing his art right now in London.

The best part about this whole design is that the paper you shred actually becomes the bedding for the hamster cage.  No more buying newspaper or shred.

Beautiful!

According to Time , the U.S. Army has just shelled out $4 million in the hopes of developing a mind control helmet.  The army hopes that this can “lead to direct mental control of military systems by thought alone.”

Wow.

While the technology is pretty cool, the implications of this project are serious.  The contract was awarded to scientists from the University of California at Irvine, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Maryland.  They are looking for a way for soldiers to communicate commands and messages purely by thought.

“Having a soldier gain the ability to communicate without any overt movement would be invaluable both in the battlefield as well as in combat casualty care,” the Army said in last year’s contract solicitation. “It would provide a revolutionary technology for silent communication and orientation that is inherently immune to external environmental sound and light.”

I’m not so sure about this.

From cult of mac.com:

“Flickr user LuisDS discovered metadata on the creative copy of the “stereotyped PC user” and other photos appearing on Microsoft’s “I’m a PC” website that reveal they were produced using Macs running Adobe Creative Suite 3.

Microsoft code monkeys scrubbed the identifying information from the website stills overnight.”

This cracks me up!  Yes, probably 99% of all ads are made on Macs, true.  But someone over at Windows might, from time to time, wonder why this is.  You would think they might try to employ ad agencies who use windows based PCs, but I would imagine that one would be impossible to find!

Too funny!

While surfing the web, I found an amazing site for geek girl jewelry.  Stewart Jewelry Designs , a small home-based business in Montana, makes some fantastic necklaces, bracelets and earrings from resistors and other geek like paraphernalia.  The red diode earrings are my favorite! From the website:

“Because geekiness is attractive and intelligence feminine and we should ALL be proud to show off the things we do that make us interesting. “

I can certainly respect that!  I think I want this necklace.  I would wear it with pride.  And possibly with a kilt.

This is the best idea, ever!!  I think these ladies definitely deserve our business.

If you are prone to thinking that you’re psychic, you might want to head on over to Popular Science and start placing your bets!  You can gamble on anything from airlines adding wi-fi service to whether or not the Hadron Collider will be up and fully functional by the end of October.

 From the website:

“Welcome to the PPX, the first place to bet on the future of science and technology. It’s easy and free: Log on, and we’ll give you POP$250,000 in our virtual PopSci Dollars. Use that money to buy propositions you think are likely to happen. If other traders also want to buy, that proposition’s price will go up, and you’ll make PopSci bucks. Expand your portfolio with bets on energy, space, consumer technology and extreme science, and compete against other players for prizes and bragging rights.

Get on over there and check it out!  Your pride is on the line.

No, I’m not talking about the kind of mushrooms which produce hallucinations and sometimes great scientific discovery.  I’m talking MARIO!  ThinkGeek has these beautiful wall graphics suitable for a kids room or any game room.  These would also be fun in a home office.  Preferably my home office!

They also have an awesome version of the classic Donkey Kong game that provides a little more pink than blue if you’re trying to go with a geek girl room theme.   Because they are easy to place and remove, you can take them off and reposition them as often as you like.

The decals cost around $75.00.  They aren’t cheap, but they are totally worth it!

 I love it when those in charge of a science experiment say, “Well, it might create a black hole, but we should be OK.”  Even Stephen Hawking bet a hundred dollars that the experiment would not be successful in finding the elusive particle they were looking for.

The Large Hadron Collider was switched on Wednesday accelerating sub atomic particles nearly to the speed of light and then smashing them together.

Hawkins said, “I think it will be much more exciting if we don’t find the Higgs (particle). That will show something is wrong, and we need to think again.”

Since the collider has been turned on, obviously, the world has not been destroyed.  The particle smashing will not begin for another month, though.  I love how the geek internets have picked up on this story.  Thankfully, madness and panic has not ensued.

Clicking the link below will tell you all you need to know about the Hadron Collider.

Has the Large Hadron Collider Destroyed the World Yet?

As geeks go, I have been mostly a science geek and less of a math geek.  I’ve always been fascinated with numbers and the many ways they can be manipulated.  My fascination, however, is limited by the fact that I am basically incompetent when it comes to math.

When I was in high school, I found a watch that I fell in love with.  It had goofy on the face and his arms told the time.  Backwards.  BACKWARDS!!!  When I got that watch, I thought I was the coolest geek ever!  Then I learned to read it.

I kept the watch all through high school and through most of college.  I replaced multiple batteries and kept it running until I had worn clean through two wrist bands and decided it was time to put Goofy away.  Unfortunately,  I could no longer tell time on a regular watch so I gave up wearing watches and have not worn one since.

My adult brand of cool nerdiness focuses around the clock pictured above.  I bought it a few years ago at ThinkGeek .   It’s a binary clock which takes a special brand of determination and fascination to read.  I have had it sitting on my desk for a couple of years now.

The running joke was that any guy who came into my office, saw the clock and immediately knew (a) what it was or (b) how to read it was automatically getting laid.  Only one guy knew a and figured out b within a couple hours.

He is now my finance.

If you’re a geek like me, you’re always looking for new nerd stuff to sit around the house.  The Periodic Coffee Table is a beautiful, if expensive, addition to the home or office of any scientist!  It is a beautiful acrylic block situated inside a table of burred oak.  Actual element samples are blocked into the table, aside from several of the radioactive elements, which would just be unsafe.

You gotta love a coffee table that comes with it’s own  instruction sheet about “safety issues”.  I would LOVE to have one of these, unfortunately, this geek girl can’t afford the $8500.00 price tag.  For now, I’ll just stick with the periodic table shower curtain that my SO got me for my birthday last year.

True geek love.