Best Geek Costumes for Halloween

Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:54AM EDT

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Ghost? Zombie? Nixon? Man, these costumes are old news. This Halloween, why not dress up as something from the geek universe? Here's my picks this year for the scary, the provocative, and the outright absurd.

Sony Laptop Battery Pack - What you need: Rectangular piece of cardboard or foam, black paint, a lit cigarette (to simulate the smoking effect). Bonus points for carrying those little poppers that explode when you step on them.

Sony Rootkit-Infected CD - Large circle of cardboard covered in aluminum foil, evil laugh. (Just as scary as the battery.)

LonelyGirl15 (pictured) - What you need: T-shirt or tank top, pony tail scrunchy, tweezers (to pluck eyebrows immaculately), age-diminishing cream, Aliester Crowley books, feather boa, purple monkey puppet, general sense of rebellion and ennui about life.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs - Black turtleneck, blue jeans, iPod, glasses, smug grin.

Firefox - What you need: Fox outfit, lighter fluid, match, sense of irony, fireproofness, legion of geek followers. (Kidding! Please don't set yourself on fire!)

The TRON Guy - Awesome TRON bodysuit, pot belly, no sense of shame.

Former HP Chairman of the Board Patricia Dunn - Liza Minnelli haircut, expensive women's suit, reporter's telephone records that you have no idea how you got, pink slip.

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  • 1 Posted by rogueist on Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:19PM EDT Report Abuse

    If you have received the Conficker payload already then the eyechart is useless because the revised payload allows the eye chart to work. An alternate way to see if you have Conficker is to try to visit the Windows Update website using IE. IE will halt and crash with the hourglass spinning if Conficker's payload has been installed. You can also try to run the automated Windows Update. If you can get it to run, you will see that all the updates fail to work. Also manually trying to install a new version of IE will also fail. These are all good indications that you have Conficker installed.

  • 2 Posted by stizique on Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:56PM EDT Report Abuse

    With Microsoft...you never know...and the so called Anti Virus programs...who really know what these companies are inserting into anyone`s computer. I say Switch over ti Linux.

  • 3 Posted by soinservice on Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:56PM EDT Report Abuse

    I tried and the error message said "the connection to the server was reset during loading" What do you do with that?

  • 4 Posted by cooltd825 on Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:58PM EDT Report Abuse

    yeah, the link is getting high traffic. i'm using Linux & Vista, and an image or two failed to show. and trust me.. i do NOT have Conficker. i don't wanna take any credit of the ingenuity of the creator of this test, but it's definitely more affected by your internet connection.

  • 5 Posted by jenny6xoxlynn on Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:00PM EDT Report Abuse

    Me too, I clicked the link and it says page load error... hmm I don't know, what's wrong.

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