Check it out: the first Geek Pop pin to reach alien shores (okay, Australia). Anyway, don’t ask us - ask @AstroMeg, who is doing astronomy type stuff down under. AstroMeg won our first Friday pin badge competition a couple of weeks ago. (Follow @geekpop on Twitter to play.)

Everyone loves a bargain, right? Especially when it’s nearly Christmas. So, to buy gifts for your geek friends and relatives, use the voucher code “NOVEMBERSALE” for any Geek Chic purchase before 29 November and you’ll get 15% off. Hooray!

And by the way, we’ve added whole bunch of new geek products, including a notebook sleeve and some awesome Geek Pop hoodies. Check them out at the shop.

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The November Playlist has a loose time travel theme - if you ignore half of it, that is… Hayley and Jim get to grips with loneliness, flux capacitors and warp drives. And Jim still isn’t done with his aluminum/aluminIUM rant… Just don’t encourage him. You can find the tracks from this Playlist on Spotify (sorry, no Time Travel is Lonely on Spotify).

Aluminum - Barenaked Ladies

The Time Warp - Richard O’Brien “et al”

Time Travel is Lonely - John Vanderslice

Flux - Bloc Party

Planned Obsolescence - 10,000 Maniacs

Use the comment box, tweet at @geekpop or email crew@geekpop.co.uk to let us know what you think about the science behind the songs.

Thanks to Intercontinental Music Lab for their awesome intro and outro music, taken from Probe II’s Golden Message on the Superheroes of Space album.

Listen Now:

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Based in Bristol, our live launch event sponsor Computer Geeks offers local IT support, as well as remote PC tune-ups anywhere in the world. They can even organise a tune-up while you’re out of the house, working, jogging, trainspotting or whatever you like to do - clever eh?

In partnership with Geek Pop, Computer Geeks is offering a 20% discount on its PC tune-up service. Fans can claim the discount simply by quoting “GEEK POP” when calling to order - you’ll pay £39 instead of the usual £49. You do the maths. (Well done, yes, that’s £10 off).

Details of Computer Geeks tune-up service:

Dramatically increases performance (as good as new) and makes sure that virus and spyware infections are protected against for the future.

Audit and update/replace Antivirus, Spyware and Firewall software | Perform all Windows (or related) system updates including service packs, and fix Windows update if necessary | Clean all registry, temporary files + application references before, during and after the Tune-Up | Uninstall any malware | Correct any application errors | Full spyware scan | Full virus scan | Tuning of programs loading on startup | Defrag if necessary | Aesthetic enhancements / desktop cleanup

www.cgeeks.co.uk

+44(0)117 325 0370 (Don’t forget to quote “GEEK POP”!)

+44(0)845 862 1637

And feel free to share this offer with your friends:

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This month, our Playlist prompts discussion of a random collection of weird and wonderful things, including spaghettification, strangeness, supernovas… and pagophagia. (Yet again, Hayley is unable to read her own writing and calls it “papophagia”). You can also find this Playlist on Spotify (sorry, no Black Hole on Spotify, apparently).

Electron Blue - R.E.M.

Quark, Strangeness and Charm - Hawkwind

Black Hole - Aqualung

Addicted to Love -Robert Palmer

Science is Golden - The Grates [check out the “kooky” video]

Use the comment box, tweet at @geekpop or email crew@geekpop.co.uk to let us know what you think about the science behind the songs.

Thanks to Intercontinental Music Lab for their awesome intro and outro music, taken from Probe II’s Golden Message on the Superheroes of Space album.

Listen Now:

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Hey hey! Sorry for the silence. Twitter is taking up so much of our time these days we’ve barely had a moment to blog - proof, though, that we are in fact uber-geeks…

Anyway, we’ve been up to all sorts: revamping the website (which now looks AWE-some, even if we do say so ourselves), booking bands for next year’s virtual festival and, of course, putting together the line ups for our live events in March. For a few clues to who might be involved, listen to September’s Playlist podcast.

Now, there’s also been a deafening silence on the email front for all our lovely subscribers. But never fear, the all-new and improved Geek Pop newsletter will be sailing into your inboxes again in the next week. And guess what that means? We need new nerdy jokes! So send ‘em along and we’ll arrange a shout out for you and your Twitter page/podcast/mobile disco/dog.

As regular subscribers will know, the newsletter is not just some boring list of what we’ve had for breakfast for the past fortnight (actually, that would be quite entertaining); it’s an outlet for all the madcap stuff that doesn’t fit on this here blog or in 140 character tweets. It’s full of funny stuff, geeky stuff, made-up stuff and, of course, opportunities for you to win Geek Pop pin badges. (As we said earlier to someone, they’re practically currency around here).  And thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, there might even be some more exciting and/or expensive prizes this year…

Also, importantly, subscribing to the newsletter will guarantee you first dibs on tickets to the launch events in March AND access to the virtual VIP room when the festival goes live - a must for media types and those who enjoy amusing/sweary outtakes.

So, now that we’ve got you chomping at the bit to find out how you can subscribe… wait for it… we’re going to tell you! Hoorah! All you have to do is send an email to news@geekpop.co.uk with the subject line “SUBSCRIBE ME RIGHT UP!” Please include your full name. And while you’re at it, include your nerdy jokes too.

@revoltingross asked us if we had a promo for the Playlist podcast. We didn’t… but we do now! And here it is. Feel free to use it on your show/blog/website.

If you do upload it anywhere else, please thank Intercontinental Music Lab for the awesome Playlist theme, taken from Probe II’s Golden Message on the Superheroes of Space album.

(right click here and Save As to download)

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This month it’s all drugs and rock and roll (and space), as we discuss cocaine and Betelgeuse. Listen to the Playlist picks, then follow the links from the blog to find your favourite sci-pop tunes. You can also find this Playlist on Spotify.

Rest My Chemistry - Interpol

Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine - The White Stripes

Far Out - Blur

Science is Real - They Might Be Giants

Intergalactic - Beastie Boys

Use the comment box, tweet at @geekpop or email crew@geekpop.co.uk to let us know what you think about the science behind the songs.

Thanks to Intercontinental Music Lab for their awesome intro and outro music, taken from Probe II’s Golden Message on the Superheroes of Space album.

Listen Now:

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You can now choose any colour of Geek Pop Square t-shirt your heart desires. Yay!

If you’ve been keeping up, you’ll know that we’re planning a series of live events across the UK for Geek Pop launch week in 2010. One of these will take place in Bristol - home of Geek Pop HQ, hooray!

We can now confirm the sponsors of this event as Computer Geeks, who basically perform miracles with machines (they understand computers so you don’t have to), and the Bristol & Bath branch of the British Science Association. Thanks also to Bob Foster of Science Cafe for helping to organise the event.

The venue for the Bristol launch is now confirmed and the line-up is rapidly evolving - more details on this soon or sign up for our newsletter for fortnightly updates from October/November.  For now though, something to whet your appetite: there will, quite possibly, be tea and cakes, and most certainly a geek chic dress code.  You’ll also get special privileges for turning up in a Geek Pop Square t-shirt.  We’re not saying what they are though (mainly because we haven’t thought of them yet, but we will).

If you belong to an organisation interested in sponsoring one of the other geektastic launch week events in Cambridge or London, you can email crew@geekpop.co.uk for more information.