A Snippet of Style

A round up of some fantastic geek-y stuff from ’round the web! It’s a selection of the weird and wonderful for you to peruse and enjoy.

First up, we have some lovely Star Wars-esque trivia and pictures in the form of a photographic essay entitled What Stormtroopers Do On Their Day Off. Stormtroopers are the army of the Galactic Empire, for the Star Wars uninitiated. This photo essay is really rather cute (seems wrong to call Stormtroopers cute somehow), but honestly I find the pictures rather adorable in a somewhat nerdy way . Though a few are sadistically creepy as well — like the giant syringe being injected into Piglet.  You can also brush up your rusty knowledge of this epic classic at the Wookieepedia (the Star Wars wiki)!

Second, we have this personalized foosball table. Make your friends and family the players on this unique table! All you have to do is provide the company with pictures of the people you would like featured and they will digitally create 3-D sculptures of them. I would absolutely love to get one of these for my birthday — I kind of fear the cost though which is available only on request.

Third, have a song stuck in your head that you just can’t remember the name of? Then midomi is the site for you; simply sing or hum at least 10 seconds of a song and the engine will help you to match it up to the real song. I’ve yet to try it out to see how well it works but it’s certainly a novel concept.

Fourth, impress your geeky friend by gifting him or her with a personalized novel! Choose from out-of-copyright novels like Pride & Prejudice or Frankenstein and replace the main character’s name with your own or a friend’s. A really personal and unusual gift to receive.

Fifth, get the latest Star Trek film on a limited edition 4GB Starfleet insignia flash drive. I’m a big fan of the Star Trek series and movies and would just love this flash drive to “boldly store what no woman has stored before”. I love it! Owning it would totally make me feel like I was part of the crew; all I’d be missing would be the jumpsuit .

Sixth, return back to those games we used to play in school, together with Neil Gaiman who wrote a “twinteractive” story together with his fans. I’d love to get my hands on a copy of this audio-book once it is compiled. Certainly a novel use of social media by Gaiman, who I just love btw, especially Stardust! You can read the unedited version of the “story” under the tag #bbcawdio @twitter.

Seventh, Google Wave! That is almost enough said right there because naturally the web has been all abuzz about this all-new synchronous email client. Waves are constantly changing and everything is real-time; it almost seems like a Wave merges IM and email together into one entity. As we take more and more steps forward to even greater collaboration and integration, I wonder if we will someday create a larger consciousness for all of us to share our minds together — a collective mind, if you will. Like the Borg in Star Trek: “We are the Borg. We will assimilate you!” A scary thought right there, but it doesn’t stop me from wanting to try out Google Wave; I’ve signed up for an invite and hopefully will be receiving one soon — of course if anyone wants to share I’ll be up for it as well!

Eighth, in a lovely merger of beauty and technology, Dell laptops will soon come in OPI nail colors like “Kyoto Pearl” and “Strawberry Margarita”. A beautiful sight indeed, almost makes me want to switchover from my Mac — just imagine having your nails done in a color to match your laptop. Awesome!

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