August 7th, 2007

Two from the watery depths:

Cephalopodcast points out the Carnival of the Blue with some really impressive writings related to the Ocean. I look at the entries for it, as well as the Carnival of Space and think we need to do the same for technology. Something like a Carnival of the Semantic Web, or Carnival of Web Security. Not something specific to tools, such as Ruby or PHP. Definitely not Carnival of Web 2.0, as that would be an oxymoron.

From Cephalopodcast again, Sealife Tattoos for Science, where people are asked to show their science tattoo. This really breaks down stereotypes related to tattoos, not to mention science geeks.

I see these field related tattoos, and it leads me to wonder: do technology geeks have industry related tattoos? Are there hundreds of bubble sorts in C tattooed across buttocks the world over, and I just don't know about them? And what would make a good tech geek tattoo, anyway?

I thought about having an opening <body> tag at the back of my neck, and a closing <\body> tag at the back of my right ankle. Doesn't seem very colorful, though, and I like color. Perhaps a chart of web safe colors, tattooed in a spiral around my navel?

An RDF triple across my tummy, and an hCard microformat tattooed on my butt?

Better yet: rm -rf * across my tail bone.

Comments
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You can find plenty of examples by searching for geek tattoo, nerd tattoo, or html tattoo.

If you're going to do a color chart, may I suggest one of the Visibone designs?

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Phil - 11:34 am 8/7/2007

Sadly, my friend Mitch's Cisco tattoo page is offline. (He had it done shortly before leaving Cisco to set up on his own, in a completely different line of business. He gave the tattooist the exact specs, making sure that he got the current Cisco logo and not the old-school Cisco logo. I liked that.)

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Jason - 12:07 pm 8/7/2007

Hmm, if you are a Microsoft fan (or not), you can try some of these:

Windows Blue Screen Of Death Tattoo
Windows Vista Tattoo
Zune tattoo

Also, there are lots of blog carnivals out there. Might already be one you can join.

Thanks.

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Elaine - 12:43 pm 8/7/2007

IIRC, cory whathisname has an old happy mac icon on his arm.

I like this less permanent sign of geekitude: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6489846

If I could justify that level of frivolity, I'd buy myself a pair. :)

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Shelley - 5:54 pm 8/7/2007

Elaine, yes saw those. That's where I got the idea for the body element.

I can't believe some of these tattoos. Especially the ones with entire paragraphs all up and down entire body parts.

If I were to have one, I'd have a small, brilliantly colored phoenix, just above my right ankle.

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I would consider a lambda tattoo if it weren’t for the misinterpretation potential.

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