Stormtrooper snowflake

Who doesn’t love to make paper snowflakes? Here’s a do-it-yourself project you can pass on to the kids — and feel good about, because it passes on your geekiness, too!

Matters of Grey came up with ten creative designs for cutting out paper snowflakes that incorporate Star Wars characters like Darth Vader, Boba Fett, Yoda, R2-D2, and more. The really ingenious ones are the snowflakes with Empire characters, because they have the Imperial logo in the center.

The website provides downloadable PDFs you can print out and use as templates for cutting out your own Star Wars snowflakes. They recommend using an Exacto Knife to cut them, since the designs are rather intricate. Personally, I’d love to see an Emperor snowflake added to the mix, or maybe a Millennium Falcon design. A Death Star design seems like a no-brainer, too.

A few more of their designs are shown below, but hit the Matters of Grey website to see them all and download the patterns.

Boba Fett snowflake

Darth Vader snowflake

Yoda snowflake

It’s that time of year: time to string up the lights, deck the halls, and all that jazz. So when you’re picking out the family tree (or putting together the artificial — hey, no judgment here, my family uses a fake every year) and considering the most optimum placement of your decorations, I humbly submit what may be the geekiest tree topper of all time: Master Yoda.

Yeah, it sells for $60. But this is next-level geekdom here, people. It’s priceless.

Plus, Yoda’s lightsaber actually lights up! Come on! Yoda stands one foot tall, and is tapered in shape to perfectly fit the top of any Christmas tree. And it would go great with your collection of Hallmark Star Wars Christmas ornaments.

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In Hurri’s steampunk world, Boba Fett is a wiry, bug-like character with an elaborate jetpack that leaks fuel.

C-3PO is as fussy as ever, but his red necktie indicates he’s a low-level worker of some kind.

Han Solo is a pipe-chewing, bowler hat and pinstripe-wearing rogue with mutton chops and fancy specs.

Jabba the Hutt is a morbidly obese blob, forced to get around on his own steam-powered chariot that’s sagging heavily under his bulk.

Princess Leia has more curves than ever, sporting a look that’s a study in contrasts. A beautiful, flowing white dress is worn under utilitarian leathers.

And Yoda is a weird little strung-out guy who’s huffing on something that I’m hoping is oxygen, but is more likely to be opium.

The following pieces are just sketches and are even marked as “works in progress,” so they’ll no doubt go through some refinement before he posts the final versions. I’m particularly intrigued by his interpretation of Luke’s lightsaber.

He’s still adding to his portfolio, so there should be even more of these to come. Hopefully he’ll get to them sooner than later, ’cause I’m dying to see his interpretation of Darth Vader.

These two videos showcase Yoda and Darth Vader recording lines for new Star Wars-themed TomTom Voices. (TomTom is a GPS navigator system.) It’s kooky fun to see these two infamous characters acting silly while remaining in-character.

Just watch. You’ll thank me.

This is flipping brilliant.

Perhaps inspired by the just-released Toy Story 3 (haven’t seen it yet, don’t spoil it for me) an artist going by the moniker “Sillof” has mashed up Star Wars with Pixar‘s library of characters. And the result, as I said before, is pure brilliance.

What’s most surprising about these mixed characters is how easily and logically they come together. It only reinforces the fact that everyone at Pixar is a Star Wars fan, and the archetypal characters in George Lucas’ original trilogy have had tremendous influences on just about every piece of genre fiction of the last three decades.

For example, Sillof combines WALL-E with R2-D2 to create “WALL-D2,” my personal favorite. Then there’s “Darth Zurg,” which is based on Buzz Lightyear’s nemesis. “Obi-Wan Carlobi” mixes Carl from Up with the Alec Guinness character. Woody’s transformation into Han Solo is a no-brainer. And “Yodawski” is particularly inspired — Yoda crossed with Monsters, Inc.‘s Mike Wozawski.

There are eleven mashup characters in all; see Sillof’s full gallery here.

I’m always looking for cool things for my house. See, as an adult male this pains me to say this, but I’m just gonna go ahead and do it. I watch MTV’s Teen Cribs. I know, that’s retarded. But these kids have crazy houses with crazy stuff in them, and I like to see what kind of stuff they come up with. Whether it’s an in-house bowling alley, or a nutty tree house. I love that stuff, but I understand that it makes me a horrible person.

Now I don’t make $5 billion a year – just $2.5 billion, sorry – so I take the things that I see on Cribs and try to figure out how to integrate them into a house that I can afford. Someday, I’m going to have a game room again, with stuff just dedicated to my geeky and nerdy habits. I’m a Star Wars guy, so I love finding Star Wars related items for the home. Like this one.

It’s a Lightsaber Nightlight, and it just mounts on the wall. It’s controlled by a remote control, so if you want to project a Darth Vader vibe in the room, go with red. Or maybe you’re watching a Samuel L. Jackson marathon and want to get all Mace Windu on your room. Go purple. It’s all possible, and looks pretty cool to begin with.

Right now the light is just $24.99, and it’s going to arrive later this year. But if you want to be the first, you can pre order one now. Of course you can just wait until they’re released in stores, but what fun is that?

What follows is a list of geek tees every nerd should have, a list of perfect geek gifts for your valentine’s nerd!

(All the names of the T-shirts are clickable and start the lightbox gallery. You can browse every T-shirt in the gallery.)

Internet LULZ

• I’m tweeting this. The new hype, I’m so blogging this is for traditionalists, today you have to tweet that! Preferably with Twitpic too! (via Think Geek)
• ROFLCOPTER When text speak meets ASCII art meets internet LULZ. (via Think Geek)
• I am logged in, therefore I am, internet psychology. The “Cogito, ergo sum” of the 21st century. (via zazzle)
• University of STFU. Often you want to tell your less scientific and geeky friends to RTFM, but those who just don’t learn when to ask questions or those who always are being loud, dumb and entertaining they need a more direct language and might have to attend the University of Shut The F**k Up!. (via Think Geek)
• OMG 1337 Eye Chart. Test your eyes with this 133t eye chart. (via zazzle)

Science Tees

• Caffeine Molecule. What is geekier than the scientific display of the ultimate survival molecule? Caffeine scientifically represented on a T-shirt. That’s an addiction I proudly display! (via Think Geek)
• Classic science shirt. (via PalmerCash)
• Robot evolution. Darwinism optimized to the 21st century. Also worn by Sheldon Cooper Phd in The Big Bang. (via zazzle)
• The Mystery of e! I guess this one only applies to math nerds, so no real explanation needed. Understand it or don’t. (via Think Geek)
• Stop following me!, evolution with attitude t-shirt. Find your own way in life, n00bs! (via zazzle)

IT T-Shirts

• There’s no place like 127.0.0.1. For the system administrator there’s no place like home. (via Think Geek)
• System administrators our a special kind of species with lots of attitude… and lots of power. Imagine how they can annoy you when they decide to throttle your bandwith at work or worse even restrict your internet access. Therefore they also like to show off their superiority with shirts like this Bow before me model. (via Think Geek)
• Pwned by an admin. Go away or I’ll replace you with a very small shell shell script t-shirt. The sysadmin might not have been to the University of STFU, but will pwn you with his h4x0r skillz! (via Think Geek)

Design



• I know HTML. We all know the routine: you start a blog on blogspot. Discover that you can uglify the colors of the standard blogspot templates and because you are unemployed suddenly you decide to start your home design studio! You think this tee is for you, but wrong, it’s all in the small print! (via zazzle)
• *Personal Favorite!* The awesome Hel-F**king-Vetica shirt for typography nerds is made by noone less than design guru and head of the design director of the NYT Online Khoi Vinh and is an absolute must have!(at Wire & Twine)
• *Personal Favorite!* Keming, the result of improper kerning by David Friedman. (from zazzle)
• #FFFFFF. Somehow the display of this T-Shirt seems incorrect to me. Find the error? (via zazzle)

Monkeyness



• *Personal Favorite!* Zombies ate my brain. A great design by Dave from Blogography. I don’t know if this T-shirt is till available because Dave launches every year a special design for his blogiversary, but it’s definitely worth it. What can a geek want more? Zombies AND a monkey!
  Check out A little Geeky to see another example of Dave’s awesome art. (at Artificial Duck & Co.)
• Timmy The Monkey. Monkeys rule the world! Suffice it to say that to a geek, coder, designer or tech-head, a monkey is one’s muse. The creative force behind all killer code, l33t h4ck5, usable designs, and all around cool stuff. If you don’t have a monkey of your own, try out the Timmy the Monkey t-shirt. (via Think Geek)
• Your Chimpnazeeness May Vary, but we are honest and admit it. 98%! (via Think Geek)

Gamerz t-shirts



• *Personal Favorite!* 1-Up Mushroom t-shirt. Who doesn’t remember the days of Super Mario Bros on their Nintendo console? Revive the nostalgiac spirit with this t-shirt. (via zazzle)
• The ultimate t-shirt for gamer chicks: I pwn n00bs!. In pink! (via zazzle)
• If you can’t have any cubicle wars because… you don’t work in a cubicle d’uh, you can still show everyone how nerdy you are with this flash gun t-shirt. Also from Sheldon Cooper fame. (via PalmerCash)
• More Nintendo nostalgia with this excellent Nintendo Controller t-shirt. (via Urban Outfitters

Various Shirts



• A mashup of robots and King Kong, Robot-Kong shirt definitely deserves a spot in your wardrobe and is a perfect geek valentine gift. (via Anonymous Venice)
• Is there a better way to be green than with this recycling t-shirt? (via CafePress)
• Exploded iPhone shirt, an almost instant classic when released. Displayed in pink to fend of the feminists! (via CafePress)
• *Personal Favorite!* If you thought you wanted the previous -tshirt, wait a second and check out this awesome iPhone as designed by Leonardo t-shirt. The iPhone steampunked… on a t-shirt.. (via iSteamphone).
• It isn’t all iPhone though, apparently the Google Android platform seems to be popular too and how better to show off your preferred mobile platform than by wearing this Android hoodie? (via zazzle)
• Last but not least, what would any list be without at least one Star Wars shirt? Although there are many, Yoda is everyone’s favorite and therefore you absolutely need this Yoda t-shirt for your collection. (via zazzle)

I am aware of that this list isn’t complete at all, but now you should now what t-shirts most geeks love. I have left the binary classic There are only 10 kind of people… out on person because I can think of at least 10 people who don’t understand it but have that shirt. Suck it!

Also watch out for our upcoming Valentine Gifts for Your Geek special next week.

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