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Look at you over there. Thinking you’re part of the geek elite because you downloaded some polyphonic bullshit ringtone, probably either the Star Trek or Battlestar theme. That’s for posers, dood. The real cool geeks are flocking to a new source for their ringtone fix. If you’ve never heard of the TED conference, it’s pretty much an annual event where the most elite geeks get together and listen to presentations from the upper echelon of geek speakers. For example, this year featured presentations from such alpha geeks as Bill Gates of Microsoft fame and Twitter’s Evan Williams.

The real news though, lies in the newly featured TED ringtones. Featured so far are tones for both the “TEDTalks Phase II” and “TEDTalks Classic” jingles, available in both MP3 and M4R formats. And more are planned for release soon. If you want to be on top of your geek game, you’ve got to be down with the TED. You down with TED? Yeah, you know me.

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It’s no mystery that Geek Squad, the subsidiary computer repair service of the Best Buy Company, is known for its incompetence and over-pricing in computer maintenance. After all, it’s Best Buy. Now, these computer services are sprouting up alongside many other major retailers.

A week after Dell announced its tech-support services with Wal-Mart, the retail chain Sam’s Club (which is owned by Wal-Mart) stated it will be adding a computer repair service to 20 of its stores. It’s called “Geeks on Call” and as the name implies, they make house calls. It’s not enough that Wal-Mart wants to produce cheap personal computers that are built to break, now they want to provide expensive services to repair them.

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Get your mind out of the gutter. It’s not that kind of hole.

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It’s Friday and I’m sitting here looking at a really busted chick. Nothing new, except that this time around, the busted chick is Nerdpr0n.com’s founder, Anna Logue. There really isn’t anything special about this woman, except that she’s straight up a nerd. No other word for it. She’s a true nerd.

The above picture shows her posing with a giant D20 D&D die, which is cool as fuck to an extent. But the pictures of her dressed up in a Star Trek uniform and as Harley Quinn from Batman. Now if only she heard about Curves or Jenny Craig. Then we’d be money.

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Some might argue that ice cream is not related to technology. If you saw how Ben & Jerry’s cranks out all those pints of Americone Dream, you’d probably beg to differ. Either way, every geek loves ice cream and today is Free Cone Day. Free Cone Day is when you go to a Ben & Jerry’s store (find yours here) and wait in line with a million other people for a free ice cream cone.

Don’t complain. Get out there and get a cone. I’m going for the Carmel Sutra. What flavor are you going to demand from B&J? Let us know in the comments.

Us geeks have our own way of pulling romance out of out asses. When we’re geekly romantic, it’s either severely intentional, or so unintentional that the ladies look at our naivety as cuteness. Either way, we get some bootay. Am I right? The USB Logo Candle falls under the severely intentional category.

If I know anything about geeks, I can almost guarantee that none of them would use this USB Logo Candle as just another classy design piece to add to their home. When they whip something like this out, it’s serious business time. Either that, or the candle holder used to dimly light the chamber you use to sacrifice a PC in the name of the Apple poly-lords. — Andrew Dobrow

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The geek mind is sometimes ignorant to the abstract, such as fine art. Flickr user Paulthewineguy has put together a photo set which translates art into a language geeks can understand.

Using emoticons and code, these pieces of art are much easier to admire, being a geek, than ever before. Art snobs beware, as this might make you feel a guttural moan form in your belly. (more…)

There’s a fine line between being a fan and being a fanatic. This Nintendo-themed Frat House is off the charts fanaticism at its very finest. A chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon decided to turn their master quarters into a Nintendo fanboy’s dream.

The frat features a laser shooter staircase, a Duck Hunt inspired foyer, paper-mache characters, and other Nintendo references that us geeks can truly appreciate. The photos of the crazy house say it all. We bow down to you fine sirs. (more…)

Ngai Luen presented its Guitar-shaped CD Player at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair 2007. What could possibly be the function of a Guitar-shaped CD Player? Two words: Nabbing chicks. The ladies love music, and they sure as hell love guys who play guitar. And us geeks need all the aid props we can get.

The CD Player has speakers integrated into its body with the volume controlled by the usual Guitar volume knobs. It’s also gonna be available in a variety of big named corporate and trendy designs, so Viva Las Ngai Luen. (more…)

Want to make a geek take a second glance? Try setting up one of these real Google Map icons somewhere in your town. Watch as the geeks fear over their sanity. “I think I was on the computer way to long last night”. The fear of being brainwashed will drive them mad.

This would be an absolutley awesome idea for a candid camera trick. We would laugh with complete glee. Mwahaha. — Andrew Dobrow

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