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When I was a young kid, I loved getting those temporary tattoos and making myself look like a cool grownup. Of course no self-respecting adult would get inked-up with the kind of artwork one would find in those quarter machines by the checkout lanes. So if your kids want tattoos, why not make them some that actually look cool?

Microsoft’s long awaited Zunes will finally hit stores today, and these revamped portable media players will ship in a wide variety of colors that come complete with tattoos, custom engravings, and other artwork. Dubbed “Zune Originals,” the new Zune range will boast a pretty fine collection of eclectic artwork by 18 artists and design studios for you to choose from. All hail Colletivo Studios, Catalina Estrada, Laurent Fetis, Sam Flores, Klaus Haapaniemi, Pierre Marie, Kenzo Minami, Parskid, Mike Perry, Phunk Studios, Chisato Shinya, Skwak, Iosefatu Sua, Tado, Nobumasa Takahashi, Ramiro Torres, Darvin Vida, and Steve Wilson for sexing up Microsoft’s second generation Zunes, bringing the total number of designs to 27.

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If you thought tattoo sleeves were a bit OTT then these next temporary tattoos maybe for you.

Want to be cool like a pirate and still show off how cool you are as a geek? Then it’s time for you to lick, stick, and peel.

Well, actually, you don’t lick these - you gently wet them. But in about 30 seconds, you’ll have a beautiful tattoo emblazoned on your flesh. Everything from retro joysticks to binary numbers to hearts showing your love for caffeine and coding.

You can buy a book of Geek tattoos from Think Geek for $7.99.

The tricky thing about tattoos is that they are for life. Permanent. Forever inked into your body. People always talk about getting a silly tattoo, but usually that’s all just talk. Then once in awhile you hear about someone getting a really bad tattoo. My favorite bad tattoo example is either an 8-ball or a donkey on a surfboard smoking a joint. But now I guess I need to add room to that list.

This guy (see image) decided to not only get a bad tattoo, but he added a super nerdy twist to it. In case you don’t know what his head/body tattoo means, it’s a piece of HTML code currently used when making web pages. Like I said, very, very nerdy. What makes it worse is that this tattoo is on his neck. Imagine having to explain your HTML head/body tattoo to everyone over-and-over again the next time you are at a wedding or social event.

Plus think about this. Sure, today HTML is currently a commonly used computer language. But the Internet is evolving fast. I wouldn’t expect HTML to still be that relevant in the next 10 - 20 years. Hopefully techniques in laser tattoo removal will make significant some strides during the next couple decades.

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These are just silly, fake tattoo sleeves. If you want an arm full of ink without the pain or longevity you can now get fake complete arm tattoos.

The tattoo sleeves are basically arm tights with tattoo patterns on them, they come in Traditional, Tribal, Japanese and Celtic designs. If you do get one you’ll want to make sure nobody finds out the tattoo is fake as I reckon you’d be quite the laughing stock :).

Available from Prank Place.