This week's tee is another obscure pop cultural reference courtesy of R. Stevens, creator of the comic strip Diesel Sweeties. On the surface, it appears to be a rather strangely symbolized expression of your love for astronomy. To the pattern-recognizing comic book geek, it is an homage to one of the most terrifying and absurd creations ever to spring from the minds of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

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Creat a real-life version of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (abridged) following these easy steps.

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If you're a true geek, then you already know about Annalee Newitz. After all, she's written about technology and science for over the past 10 years. Find out what Sci-Fi books made her "must read" list, and listen to the podcast interview.

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Comedian Don McMillan effectively demonstrates the all too common atrocities perpetrated by PowerPoint users--often in a semi-conscious attempt to obscure the fact that they have no idea what they're talking about.

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How many Saturn V rockets have reached the surface of the moon, despite the facts that the Saturn V was the largest rocket ever constructed and that it was built specifically so that NASA wouldn't have to send Apollo launch vehicles to the moon?

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This week's quibble comes from the May 6, 2008 edition of Geek Trivia, "Everything old is new (Coke) again."

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Here's a little something to take the edge off your Monday--a video of the a working Babbage Difference Engine. An extraordinary piece of computing history with a surprising feature set. Just be glad you don't have to support it--as it weighs five tons, includes hundreds of gears, and requires soft plaster trays for hardcopy backups.

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Happy Mothers’ Day! Sunday, we celebrate the women who perform the utterly thankless task of raising a bunch of self-centered, loud, surly, snot-nosed rebellious little hellions, just like you and me. While there are many women who are paragons of maternal nuturing, films and books offer a darker vision of women with children. Malevolent matriachs, dark and [...]

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This week's geek shirt is one near and dear to the Trivia Geek's heart, as it relates to his favorite (quasi-)reliable source of information for all my much-abused trivia columns: Wikipedia.

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Okay, so what we've got here is the closest any mortal contemporary human being is going to get to owning an actual astromech droid: Nikko's limited edition R2-D2 HD projector-bot, complete with Millennium Falcon uber-remote. This video will make you want it more than food, shelter, and broadband.

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