It’s that time of year again – a geek’s best chance to look cool on the cheap. ScotteVest is having its biggest sale of the year with 40% taken straight off the top of some of its coolest stuff. Just remember to enter in this special coupon code – 9SALE40 – when you reach checkout. But the sale is only on through Friday and on limited stock so it’s best to act quickly. Then once you do, you’ll still be able to hold on to all those gadgets that make our digital world possible, but walk around empty-handed and un-encumbered like your only care in the world is looking good. (At least that’s what we tell ourselves when we wear ours.)

You can find their special sale page with all the details here.

Kevin Smith has been in the news a lot recently, having recently been kicked off an airplane for occupying too much room in a seat and spilling over the sides like a grilled-cheese sandwich with too much Velveeta. It’s no coincidence that Kevin has a movie coming out this weekend, which must be nothing more than marketing coincidence, I’m sure. Cynicism aside, Kevin’s latest flick looks like it will share the same fate as every other Kevin Smith movie: failure. The man has yet to make a movie that has earned at least $30-million, which really isn’t a huge number to overcome…unless you’re Kevin Smith.

His new movie Cop Out looks terminally unfunny and should be on Starz within the month. Unwilling to rest on his laurels, he is now threatening yet one more movie, this time based on a song, a fact that already spells trouble. It will be called Hit Somebody, a hockey movie, because you know how popular Hockey is…ahem. It will star Seann Scott of American Pie fame, of whom Kevin says, ““I look at this as Seann’s opportunity to go to the (Tom) Hanks level,” Smith said. “Hanks for years and years did this (lesser) role and then he became that (blockbuster movie) guy. This is Seann’s chance to do that as well, not just be Stifler. And it’s my chance to not just be the “Clerks” guy. It’s my chance to do something big, epic in scale. Stories I tell span one day. … This spans 30 years. You’re talking a period. You’re trying to bring people to a time in your life that hasn’t existed in 30 years. The look of it, the feel of it, the sound of it — everything I have is going to be in that movie.”

Hear that? Seann Scott will be going to the “Tom Hanks” level.

…And Smith will be directing a big, epic…hockey movie.

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Hate me if you must, but I am not a football fan at all. It just holds no interest for me. I used to have a need to sit through every Super Bowl though. Why? I loved watching all the multi-million dollar advertisements.

Now however, thanks to Al Gore and whoever invented TiVo, I don’t have to put up with all the shirtless obese men painted in their team’s colors, or the nonstop grunting from amplified helmet mics anymore. Using my DVR I can just fast forward between commercials afterward, or even better, find the websites that let me select exactly which ones I want to watch and when. If you feel the same way about the sport, or even if you are a pigskin fan who just may have missed an ad or two during some congratulatory chest-bumping, these are the best three sites I came across this year:

Spike.com/superbowl

Hulu.com/adzone

CBSSports.com

Enjoy! Oh, and before you head off to voluntarily watch the advertisements from the big game that CBS will be using to pay its bills (each 30 sec. spot was 2.5 mil a pop!), we humbly request you consider clicking on an ad or two here every so often. It’s a small something we’d be very appreciative of and would help us continue to feed the habits of Info Addicts everywhere.

I’ve heard of Snow Days, but Superbowl Days are a new one on me. Students within the Indianapolis school district won’t have to show up for classes next Monday until two hours after normal school hours. Why a two hour delay? Back in 2007 when the Indianapolis Colts were int he Superbowl, 50% of the bus drivers for the school district called in sick! Hence, administrators are pushing classes up by two hours in the hopes the bus drivers will actually show up for work, which is probably overly optimistic.

“We have to start on time and cross our fingers that people show up. We have a two-hour delay, which hopefully means people get it together, or we have closed schools. That’s not an option,” said Mary Louise Bewley, IPS. “We’re hoping this compromise, really, will make it possible to have the best of both worlds. The ability to celebrate the Colts and have a day of education.”

The delay acknowledges that some staff may not arrive at work at their scheduled 5:30 a.m. start time because of the late start of the game on Sunday, Feb. 7.

“A two-hour delay provides a compromise that ensures our children will arrive at school safely,” said Superintendent Eugene White. “Children need to be in school. But this is a unique situation that doesn’t happen every year. The delay will allow our families and staff to cheer on our home team and focus on the business of education.”

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