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Nerdy Kitchen Supplies You Won’t Want to Spill Anything On

by Susana Polo | 10:15 am, May 7th, 2013

I always feel a little odd throwing aprons and kitchen supplies up here, but it’s probably just the part of me that really wants to make an anti “woman in the kitchen” joke but hasn’t yet figured out a way to do it that isn’t eye-rollingly bad. Would Huckleberry Baby‘s nerdy furnishings get me to wash dishes more often? Maybe. Okay probably not, I really hate washing dishes. But that doesn’t make these pot holders (and aprons) any less awesome.

(via Huckleberry Baby on Etsy.)

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ThinkGeek Will Donate All Jayne Hat Proceeds to Firefly Charity

by Susana Polo | 10:58 am, April 11th, 2013

It’s become clear this week that now that Fox has actually decided to license merchandise based on the ten year old television series with a massive cult following that might actually have lasted more than a season if they hadn’t heavily interfered with it’s scheduling, episode order, and air dates… they’re going start taking shots at the smaller, unlicensed retailers that have been serving the market niche they’ve been ignoring. This has left a lot of folks pretty angry.

ThinkGeek, a, well, nerdy stuff retailer with really savvy social media presence, is one of the outlets that carries Fox’s now official Jayne Hat, one of the most recognizable pieces of clothing in the series. And they’ve announced, in the wake of Fox’s cease and desists to Etsy Users, to donate all profits they make from the sales of Fox’s Jayne Hats to Can’t Stop the Serenity.

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UPDATED: Are You A Firefly Fan Who Makes Jayne Hats? Watch Out, Fox Is Coming For You.

by Jill Pantozzi | 12:30 pm, April 9th, 2013

As if Firefly fans didn’t hate Fox enough already, it seems a newly licenced Jayne Cobb hat has started a chain reaction of cease and desist notices to Browncoats who make them for fun. Gorram… 

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Eevee Hoodie Lets Everybody Know You’re Happy Just the Way You Are

by Susana Polo | 4:47 pm, March 27th, 2013

This weekend at PAX East I got to hear Sam Hart sing a sad song about Ash deciding whether or not to forcibly evolve Pikachu into Raichu, and I figure that’s a dilemma that many Eevee owners have also faced. After all, Eevee’s got so many flashier evolutions to choose from. Rarity’s Boutique on Etsy, for example, lets you choose from Eevee, Vaporeon, Jolteon, and Flareon to wear. Choose wisely.

(via Fashionably Geek.)

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Need Some Really Subtle Nerd Jewelry? Take This Zelda Music Bracelet

by Susana Polo | 12:12 pm, March 13th, 2013

Some folks live lives where they can’t wear a nerdy t-shirt to work every day. I work in an office with a cardboard cut out of David Tennant, but that doesn’t stop “clothing and accessories with subtle Nerd messages” from being pretty much my favorite thing ever. Cute and Cool Designs on Etsy came up with this brilliant idea for Legend of Zelda jewelry, because there’s only so many Piece of Heart pendants and Triforce brooches you can conceivably own. This one’s of the key sequence for the Song of Storms, but pretty much any of the songs from Ocarina of Time or Majora’s Mask are available.

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Unicorn Farts: The Lip Balm

by Susana Polo | 12:14 pm, March 6th, 2013

According to Gizmodiva, this lip balm tastes like “a mix of spearmint and pink cotton candy,” so yeah. That’s definitely a unicorn fart. Tell your brony friends.

Previously in Unicorns

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May The Force Be With You

Buy This Yoda Hoodie, You Will

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:24 am, March 5th, 2013

Erin Maynard created this Star Wars-inspired Yoda hoodie and it can be yours for just $45.99. No word on whether it will let you live to 900. She also has a Harry Potter house elf version.

(via TheCommonRoom Etsy shop)

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TARDIS Lantern Perfect for Making Jokes About How It’s Perfect for Seeing Weeping Angels

by Susana Polo | 4:38 pm, February 21st, 2013

Pieces of My Art on Etsy is offering this lovely mosaic TARDIS lamp. Candle not included. Candle larger than the inside of the lantern not included.

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Doctor Who Cookie Cutters Sure to Complement any Assortment of Fish Fingers and Custard

by Susana Polo | 10:13 am, February 13th, 2013

Last time we checked in on WarpZone, an Etsy shop that produces 3D printed fandom cookie cutters, there was plenty of Pokémon, Portal, and MLP to go around. But you might want to keep an eye on their new series.

Does a cookie of an angel become an angel?

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How Etsy Increased Its Number of Female Engineers by a Multiple of Four in One Year

by Susana Polo | 2:01 pm, February 11th, 2013

You’ll often hear from officials in male-dominated industries like the sciences (not to mention the entertainment industry) that they’d really like to hire more women, and in fact are actively trying to do so, but find the process very difficult. Everybody (okay, most people) wants to solve the problem, but nobody, least of all female candidates, wants to feel like they’ve gotten a job based on something other than their level of expertise. Etsy, a company whose user base is 80% female, has found a way to tackle the hurdles between them and greater gender parity on their engineering team (although they still only have 20 women on a team of 110), as CTO Kellan Elliott-McCrea explained at a recent conference.

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