SheldonShirts

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As nellorat has mentioned, we are chugging our way through catching up on The Big Bang Theory, which is unremittingly hilarious and which, unlike some works about geeks I could name, actually appears to be written and run by people who have actually met geeks and understand them. (It gets a few details wrong--for instance, Warner Brothers cartoons are very much at the heart of geek culture--but it get so much so right.)

I was particularly glad to discover SheldonShirts, which is a wonderful example of the type of thing geeks do when they love something: documentation of the marvelous array of t-shirts worn by the show's main characters, Sheldon and Leonard, along with some additional documentation (Wollowitz's belt buckles, the shirt-folding board Sheldon used in "The Bad Fish Paradigm"). Enthusiasm at its finest!

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When rjmwell was the marketing guy for the excellently geeky Cotton Expressions (http://www.cottonexpressions.com/), it was a great triumph to persuade TV or movie wardrobe people to clothe characters with CE's T-shirts.

An astronomer in Contact wears a CE periodic table shirt, whose unstable elements are printed with phosphorescent ink (though this is not seen in the movie).

Looking at the SheldonShirts site, I see now that Sheldon almost invariably chooses shirts with a comics or SF design, where Leonard sometimes opts for shirts with a scientific theme, such as a caffeine molecule. Never noticed that before.