Monday, March 23, 2009

Twitter tool

www.epenis.nl
It's pretty self explanatory...

FashionGeek FashionShow.

Geek clothing fashion show
Thanks to @bre (Bre Pettis/Brooklyn Hacker Collective) for the behind the scenes coverage of Diana Eng's the fASHIOn GeEK fashion show. (Video). Interesting combination of LED's, DIY and MTV.

All this is to promote the new book that is available on Amazon this week. which describes Eng as someone who...
... "pioneers an emerging generation of tech savvy women crafters (or would-be crafters) who demand stylish yet practical designs that are electronically charged".

If you don't mind going out looking like something from Clay Shirky's ITP student show, this is definitely something for you.

Campy and Geeky

Electrons on Parade
This wonderful RCA promo video that shows how they created vacuum tubes in 1942. Its both campy and geeky. Hansom men, 40's hairstyles and the latest thing in science and technology.

Top 10 Gays and Geeks on Twitter


Did a bit of digging around twitter tools to find the top gays and the top geeks. Now obviously 'gayness' is not necessarily determined by the number of times you mention the word 'gay' nor the number of followers, so a bit of creative license here. I think there may be some overlap between these lists. Anyone willing to raise their hand @fagadget

Top 10 Twitter Gays:
1) @stephenfry (300k + followers)
2)@perezhilton (250k+ followers)
3)@maddow (150k + followers)
4)@andersoncooper (64k followers)
5)@biggaynews (3000+ followers)
6)@postgay (3000+ followers)
7)@nickstarr (3000+ followers)
8)@angryfaggot (2000+ followers)
9)@outgaylife (2000+ followers)
10)@davidbadash (1800+ followers)

Top 10 Twitter Geeks:

1)@kevinrose (300k + followers)
2)@ev (300k + followers)
3)@timoreilly (120k+ followers)
4)@guykawasaki (90k+ followers)
5)@hodgman (50k + followers)
6)@votewoz (48k+ followers)
7)@scobleizer (70k+ followers)
8)@thinkgeek (13k+ followers)
9)@novaspivak (2000+ followers)
10)@geek (just for having the name)