Alan Parekh of Winnipeg makes these cool component-symbol coasters from 1/4″ plywood, sealed with polyurethane varnish. Ten dollars gets a set of six: resistor R1, inductor L2, LED D3, capacitor C4, transistor Q5, and ground GND. Good-looking, clever, and easy on the wallet.

A fun geek ring, hand made by arosha . Made me smile.

What a funny t-shirt design.  Made me smile.  Available on Etsy 

This print by RosieMusic is simply perfect.

I love the green, and how she’s sneaking a look at him…

Made me smile. By Korean artist Choi Jung Hyun.

Via YahooGreen

Made me smile. One thing is certain though - it has to be the only car of its, er, type.

via: Dark Roast

Following my recent engagement, it has been suggested (thanks Jason!) that I need an appropriately geeky wedding ring.  Pictured is the cat 5 compliant wedding set  ….  Now I think this could be a little too geeky even for me!

Thoughts?

These tech bowls would be great for the GEEKWARE office! I’d store all my keyboard keys and craft supplies in them.

via Swiss Miss

I seem to have cakes and cookies on my mind this week!
Instructions for this totally awesomely-retro rubiks cube cake here.

2007 was a really fun year. I got to see my 1st grizzly bear up close, hiked under a big waterfall, kayacked across a lake, enjoyed being a bridesmaid at a glorious summer wedding in England. Discovered how to hold down my booth tent during 50km winds and that fridge doors holding magnets bounce in 50km/hr winds. Found that some labels on old diskettes just DON’T ever come off, no matter how much I scrub/soak/scrape them. Learnt how quickly a rain barrel fills up in a storm, and how fun it is to bale water into buckets during said storms so that the hose pipe never needs to be used all summer.

I also found out how much I enjoy making one of a kind items, like the calculator trinket box, or the hint ring. In 2008 I plan to make more one-off pieces, and explore new ways to recycle old computer parts. I don’t want to be a manufacturing machine, I’d like to get back more to the art and design side of things, and inventing new creations.

I have lots of ideas brewing, so stay tuned….

image via: swissmiss

After observing the bizarre search suggestions that ask.com gives for searches, the folks over at Evil Mad Scientist ran a contest to find the most amusing, inappropriate and even frightening suggestions about what you might want to search for. Here’s some of my favourites from their winning entries:

^ Well, err, I don’t use Ask. But I’d never ask Ask if anyone else does!

Someone likes HTML a bit too much eh?!

via: funnyhub