Celebrate Your Geekdom
from Emily the Strange:
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from Mimoco:
Happy holidays and a Joyous 2010! From the teamico at Mimoco and all the MIMOBOTs, wishing you and yours Happy Holidays!
In the gift-giving spirit of Christmas, we’re giving away 2 copies of the Requiem for Delinquency CD Hobs End.
Back in August, I discovered R4D, fell in love and told you about it here at ÜberSciFiGeek.
Some elements of Hobs End remind me of Bill Leeb projects such as Delerium and Fauxliage… Requiem for Delinquency is the kind of electronica music you might find on a Six Degrees or Nettwerk label… Some tracks are similar to but have more synth than Robert Miles and Enigma compositions, but are not as heavily reliant on synth as Tangerine Dream or Vangelis tend to be. (For the full review click here.)
Now we’re giving you a chance to win your own copy of R4D’s Hobs End. Beginning Christmas Eve, Thursday December 24th, and running through New Year’s Eve, Thursday December 31st, all tweets of this article (just click “Tweet This Post”) or retweets from Twitter will be entered into a random drawing to receive a copy of R4D’s Hobs End CD.
You can check out a preview of their music at RequiemForDelinquency.com and then tweet to enter!
Merry Christmas from all of us at ÜberSciFiGeek!
from RiffTrax:
It’s the sunniest Night Before Christmas yet. Not a creature is stirring, not even the stuffed, mummified mouse that’s lovingly stapled to the floor. Sugarplums dance in the heads of children, causing the children to wonder, what’s a sugarplum, and why would it dance so suggestively? At the heart of it all is a man with one simple goal — a long winter’s nap, uninterrupted by any sort of clatter. Boy is he in for a surprise!
from Dave and Tom:
Yes, it is upon us… a Very Special FINAL Episode of Safety Geeks: SVI Season One , just in time for the holidays. It really has nothing to do with the holidays, but it is very special indeed. To go out with a bang, we’ve combined the final two episodes into one 13 minute episode. We hope you’ll enjoy it!
We’d love to take a moment and acknowledge all of the people who helped to create Safety Geeks: SVI, KoldCast.tv and you, our fans, who have followed it. As you probably know, we are in the process of being nominated for a couple of awards. If you would be so kind to vote for us, winning one of these would be invaluable as we seek funding and sponsorship for Season 2. Instructions on voting below.
AND NOW… Safety Geeks: SVI Season Finale: A Strange Sucking Sound
And may we suggest watching the entire season to get the full flow of the show? Finally, we wish you and yours the happiest of holidays and a wonderful New Year!
AWARDS:
Help us win a Streamy Award!
Between now and January 22nd, click on the badges below and vote. The series with the greatest number of Public Submissions will automatically become an Official Nominee. You are allowed one vote per day per category. Feel free to nominate us for more than one category such as Best New Comedy Series, Best New Series, Best Ensemble Cast and to nominate individuals (more below)…
Thank you for the support!
1. Go to: http://www.streamys.org/submit/public-submissions/
2. Use the drop down to choose the category (for example: “Best Comedy Web Series”).
3. Fill in Series Name: Safety Geeks: SVI. Series url: www.daveandtom.com
Rinse & Repeat under additional categories: Best New Web Series, Best Ensemble Cast in a Web Series
4. Click on “Submit an individual”. Use the drop-down for the category and nominate as many of the following as you can or would like to:
For your consideration…
Safety Geeks: SVI
Invention with Brian Forbes
Vote daily! You are allowed one vote per day.
Clicker Award
Tis’ the Season to be jolly and — it would seem — tis the season for webseries award shows… Looks like we’re up for another possible award. This one is Clicker.
1. Go to: http://www.clicker.com/gallery/best-web-original-comedy-2009/
2. Scroll down to Geeks, hit “VOTE”. The page will refresh and next to the Geeks entry will say, “You Voted”.
3. Tweet about it or Facebook it (the little icons for this will be next to the “You Voted” tag).
As you’ll see, the field for Comedy is very crowded, so please do vote.
And finally, forward this to friends and family asking for their votes if you would be so kind — it really is a numbers game at this point.
Awesome.
Happy Crimble!
Dave & Tom
from Split Reason:
Today brings our last newsletter of 2009, right before we take a small break and start gaming until our eyes bleed, pausing only for small increments to ingest junk food and take a few turkey naps. It’s been an amazing year, and we’d like to thank everyone that managed to drop a few items in their shopping cart to help keep our Japanese Packing Specialist employed. Every company needs a Ninja on site for a variety of unexpected scenarios, so we appreciate your support.
If you didn’t get a chance to order in time for Christmas, you can still send the geeks and gamers in your life a gift certificate, which will be delivered via email before the big day.
We’re going to continue offering our 15% OFF promotion until January 1st, you can claim your discount by entering the promo code ANTIGRINCH during the check-out process.
We have a slew of recent products and designs to recap, and much more on the way in 2010. So for now, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year, happy zombie killing, noob fragging, dungeon raiding, or whatever it is you do when the office shuts down. Let the games begin!
from Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls:
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Use Express Shipping (before 3 pm EST) and your doll will be sent warp-speed so it arrives next day. Choose your favorite Series 1 Dolls: Milky Way, Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Pluto, and have it under the tree just in time for Christmas!
Happy Holidays!
from RiffTrax:
One Christmas Eve, a foolhardy young girl discards a toy she is no longer interested in upon seeing her new, less-horrible toys. Never mind that the forgotten toy was little more than a hot dog with hair, this is a transgression that the patron saint of creepiness cannot forgive! While the girl slumbers peacefully, like the total selfish jerk that she is, St. Nick enters her dreams to give the monstrous doll life. It proceeds to torment her with its special brand of high-pitched Christmas horror. Will she learn her lesson and accept that change is always bad, or crack under the pressure and find herself in an asylum for children, gnawing on her own hair? Either way, this doll is gonna break a lot of her stuff!
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
The story of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer has been told and retold countless times, in film, TV and song. All of those other versions are better than this one. Even the cold war-era East German version “Rudolf van der Schlittenfahrt”, which features far more marching and distant machine gun fire than a Christmas special ever should.
from Jim Gaffigan:
Just wanted to wish you and yours the very best during this holiday season. Thanks to everyone who bought tickets to one of my shows or purchased one of my CDs/DVDs. I really do appreciate it.
If you feel inspired, you can vote for me everyday in the Comedy Central Stand Up Showdown. (See, I was thin once.)
Have a great 2010,
Jim
P.S. King Baby was one of iTunes’ top 10 comedy albums. Get it here.
P.P.S. Follow me on Twitter.
from RiffTrax:
Christmas Rhapsody, the latest entry in the Rhapsody series, comes fresh on the heels of Thanksgiving Rhapsody and Cyber Monday Rhapsody. And though Webster’s defines Rhapsody as “A highly emotional utterance or literary work,” most of us know that the true meaning of Rhapsody is a depressed sentient Christmas tree, bemoaning its own “No Account” status in the world.
If Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tree and Eeyore the Donkey had a baby whom they denied the Prozac it so desperately needed, it would still be more fun to talk to than the tree in Christmas Rhapsody.
The group Druids for the Ethical and Humane Treatment of Animals is recruiting World of Warcraft players for their Save the Murlocs campaign. If you haven’t heard of the movement yet, check out the informative (and highly entertaining) Save the Murlocs PSA. Blizzard Entertainment, J!NX, and Hot Topic have already endorsed D.E.H.T.A., creating special merchandise to help them in their fundraising efforts.
J!NX, hand-picked by Blizzard Entertainment, has been producing a fully licensed Official World of Warcraft Collection since 2006. In addition to an extensive line of clothing and accessories, they created the World of Warcraft Talking Murloc Plush Toy:
Adopt your very own TALKING Murloc! For too long, these majestic creatures have been the subject of cruelty. The J!NX crew fully supports the Save the Murlocs Campaign!
Recently updated for the “Save the Murlocs” campaign, the toy now includes a special extra:
Each Murloc comes with an official adoption certificate emblazoned with your rescued Murloc’s name. Hang it with pride in your bedroom, office or guild hall!
Printed on cream-coloured paper in green, black, and shiny gold ink, the fancy adoption certificate comes in an envelope marked with the “Save the Murlocs” logo, beneath which “Official Adoption Certificate” is written in a calligraphic font. It’s exciting to open the document and discover which random name has been assigned to your Murloc. In the case of the one being reviewed here, he (or, possibly, she — it’s hard to tell with these amphibious creatures) turned out to be named Grimz.
The plush Murloc is packed in a cardboard box that resembles a live animal shipping crate. Simulated wood planks are stamped “imported from Azeroth”, and the front of the crate has a big, splintered hole in it where the plastic window would normally be, as if the contained Murloc has tried to claw its way out during transport. There’s no need to fear this little Murloc, though. No bigger than a small cat, it’s clearly a baby, the perfect size to fit on your lap while you play World of Warcraft, or drape over your arm and stroke in evil genius fashion. It even “purrs”, making the Murloc’s distinctive “rwl” sound when you press under its chin to activate the voicebox mechanism, which is quite clear without being overly loud. The arms and legs have wire armature for better shape retention, but the toy is still soft and cuddly, with its variety of brightly-coloured, tactile fabrics inviting frequent pettings. Most notable is the Murloc’s green “skin”, a low-pile, textured plush that shimmers with a subtly detailed fish-scale pattern, except where wetly glossy fabric paint is used to apply the stripes lining the array of orange felt spikes along the spine. The overall result is an authentically aquatic-looking Murloc.
Hot Topic’s contribution to the campaign is a pair of exclusive t-shirts that are available only in their retail stores. The Hot Topic Exclusive “Save the Murlocs” T-Shirt comes in a men’s/unisex style, and for the ladies there’s the Hot Topic Exclusive World of Warcraft “Save Me” Women’s Tee. Made of thick, soft cotton, the t-shirts feature large graphics screen-printed in bold, eye-catching colours that will definitely get your message noticed. A hang-tag on the shirts promotes savethemurlocs.org, with four peelable Murloc stickers on one side, two of which incorporate the website’s URL.
For those of you who simply refuse to be converted to the Murlocs’ cause, J!NX (reluctantly, one presumes) offers a World of Warcraft Murloco’s Tacos T-Shirt to wear instead. To you heathens, the Murlocs have just one thing to say: RWLRWLRWL!
Order directly through the J!NX website. Bonus: each package comes with a sticker sheet plus any available catalogues or other promotional materials.
The World of Warcraft Talking Murloc Plush Toy and World of Warcraft Murloco’s Tacos T-Shirt are distributed by J!NX, in partnership with Blizzard Entertainment. The Hot Topic Exclusive “Save the Murlocs” T-Shirt and Hot Topic Exclusive World of Warcraft “Save Me” Women’s Tee are distributed by Hot Topic, in partnership with J!NX and Blizzard Entertainment. For more information, please visit the official World of Warcraft website.