Have you ever watched one of those infomercials on TV and listen to the announcer bemoaning that “30% of your energy bill is literally flying out the door!” or “Looks like another summer of lawncare nightmares”?  What if life were really that bad, but all the time? 
Well, the website Everything is Terrible! has a video that has strung over 5 minutes of these infomercial clips into one long string of life misery.  It includes clips from infomercials such as The Magic Bullet Express, Jack LaLanne’s Power Juicer, Ab Circle Pro, …

So, I was a Boy Scout… but I never got the opportunity to get these merit badges!
From the Inbox Zero merit badge (for those you’ve reached an empty e-mail inbox) to the Homonyms badge (for those that know the differences between to, too, and two, these merit badges allow you to show off your Eagle Scout level geekiness.  You can even get a nerd merit badge sash to display them!
(Bonus:  These are inspired by the Science Scouts – or O.O.T.S.S.O.E.R.A.A.A.P. for those in the know – who create merit badge …

The Lego Star Wars series is just cool – they’ve made kits for the Death Star and the Millenium Falcon.  Plus, they have video games (that my daughter really loves!…).  But, the video below is absolutely awesome, retelling the Star Wars trilogy (Episodes IV, V, and VI) in about two minutes with what appears to be the most incredible Lego Star Wars set ever!

Facebook viewers can watch it here…

Just in case you didn’t have enough geeky devices to help you with gaming strategies, here’s a glove that allows you to play rock-paper-scissors against a computerized opponent.
Also called ro-sham-bo (the phonetic French expression of “rock-paper-scissors”), there are some people who take this WAY too seriously.  There are actually roshambo tournaments, and it even has been expanded to include five symbols (as seen in the 2008 “The Lizard-Spock Expansion” episode of The Big Bang Theory).
One can apply game theory to figure out the optimal winning strategy to rock-paper-scissors.  In order to …

Coolness (or just plain geekiness) abounds when scientific stuff is self-referencing…
Bill Keaggy (among many of his “visual indiscretions”) has a link that shows a periodic table of various websites that have different periodic tables!  Some are in the shape of galaxies, while other are periodic tables of cupcakes or candies…
Here’s the link.  Enjoy!…

Classic Star Trek II:  The Wrath of Khan moment…

Let the geekiness ensue!  March 14 is known in technogeek circles as Pi Day.  And yes (I know what you’re thinking – where can I learn MORE about Pi Day?!), there is a whole website dedicated to Pi Day – from piday.org: 
Pi, Greek letter (), is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi Day is celebrated by math enthusiasts around the world on March 14th. Pi = 3.1415926535…

In an August 2009 New York Times article, here’s what a Google mucky-muck has to say about the world of math and science:
“I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians,” said Hal Varian, chief economist at Google. “And I’m not kidding.”
Knowledge of statistics and, most importantly, how to exploit them will become an increasingly important part of tomorrow’s successful businesses. 
You can read the article here…

I saw this video and I thought it was pretty cool – had to forward it along…  Try some of these tricks yourself!  (I think pouring the carbon dioxide to extinguish the candles is fantastic!…)

Somehow I got on the mailing list for ThinkGeek (probably because, well, I get geeky science magazines like Wired…).  But I found myself thinking that this was the coolest, geekiest stuff I’d ever seen in one place.
For example, I mentioned in another post about the Star Wars Force Trainer, where you can raise a ball with your mind.
But wait, there’s more!…
How about the Tauntaun Sleeping Bag?  Remember the scene from The Empire Strikes Back where Han Solo finds Luke Skywalker outside on the frozen planet of Hoth.  The sun is going …