Bumper stickers give people a chance to express their personality. So, what happens when the car owner is a dedicated computer geek (like us Pingdom-ites)?

This is what happens.

There is no place like home

The most famous IP address of them all, good old localhost.

Photo by Simon Law.

Computer geek overload

So much going on here. Stickers about LAN parties, Intel, Red Hat Linux, the GEEKCHK license plate, and the slightly unsettling “I read your email” sticker. We’re guessing this one is a sysadmin.

Photo by Heather Masterson.

Microsoft irony

At least, we think this is irony.

Photo by Edward Virtually.

The truck device

Whoever the owner is, he/she is most certainly a *nix geek.

Photo by Kevin Inman.

True Linux dedication – Tux for president!

What, not voting for Torvalds? Awww…

Photo by Travis Bigrigg.

Driver fond of PHP

Subtle statement from a PHP Web programmer perhaps?

Photo by Hansco.

Ouch

That’s it, we’re heading for Facebook…

Photo by Beatrice Murch.

Somebody cares A LOT about fonts

The tiny URL there actually leads to a whole website about the Comic Sans font.

Photo by Al Baxter.

Geek overload, again

A little bit of everything here, with a certain focus on games it would seem.

Photo by QuietDelusions.

404 error, sticker not found

Ah, yes, a good old 404 page, only in real life.

Found at Cathode Tan.

Political statement, geek style

Sometimes HTML can say a lot in very little space.

Photo by Jessie Heaven Lotz.

Apple overdose by Mac addict

Someone showing an abundance (and then some) of Apple love.

Photo by Eric Rice.

Firefox dedication

It’s our preferred Web browser here at Pingdom, and clearly this person agrees.

Photo by Devin Lussier.

Chaser of wireless networks

War driving is the practice of driving around scanning for wireless networks.

Photo by Iulus.

Blogger not happy about criticism

Anyone in the mood of actually calling 1-888-STFU to see what happens?

Photo by Scott Beale at Laughing Squid.

You may recall that we had a post about geeky vanity license plates a while ago. Now all we need is a car with a geeky license plate AND a cool geeky bumper sticker. That would be perfection! (Actually, one car above managed this feat.)

We are sure to have missed some really cool examples of cars with geeky bumper stickers, so if you know of any, please put a link in the comments.

The New England Patriots held what seemed to be a commanding lead (17-15) with five minutes left of Super Bowl XLVI last night. But the New York Giants came back and managed to win with 21-17.

As exciting as the game sounds, we missed the whole thing, instead spending our time watching the Superbowl.com website.

It turned out to be a rather dull thing to do because the site held up well and there was no downtime at all. The response time also didn’t give away anything significant in terms of online Super Bowl traffic.

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As Super Bowl 46 is approaching, fans will flock to the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, and to TV sets around the world to follow the New York Giants battle it out with the New England Patriots.

Kickoff is scheduled for 6:30EST on Sunday, February 5, and we’re already monitoring Superbowl.com to see how the site will handle the event.

What team will win Super Bowl 46? How will the site cope? We can only wait to find out.

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Every Friday we bring you a collection of links to places on the web that we find particularly newsworthy, interesting, entertaining, and topical. We try to focus on some particular area or topic each week, but in general we will cover Internet, web development, networking, performance, and other geeky topics.h

This week we bring you a collection of articles focusing on cloud, with a few other topics thrown in to boot.

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Out of the 59 US-based e-commerce sites we monitored during the holiday season last year 28 scored a perfect 100% uptime for December.

Whether this helped spur on the booming sales in the US, we don’t know, but retail e-commerce spending in the US reached $37.2 billion for the November to December 2011 period. That was an increase of 15% from the same period in 2010.

We decided to dig into the numbers for these e-commerce sites to see how well they did in terms of uptime and performance. After massaging the data coming from our Pingdom probes, it turns out that the sites overall performed well during December 2011 in terms of uptime, but response time was an issue for several sites.

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Pingdom’s Mobile Podcast is a weekly show about Internet, web, and mobile stuff.

In this show, Saleh also gives us an update on the pending submission of his Carbon for Windows Phone Twitter client. We’re also joined by Mario Lurig, who talks about using Amazon S3 and Cloudfront to speed up a website.

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