I have to say it.  I've been pretty disappointed with our Geek Marketing Contest results so far.  A little more than 30 marketing ideas have been submitted and nothing so far that has been worthy of a $5,000 prize.  There is still plenty of time, but if all we get is 50 or so marketing ideas, that makes the average marketing idea worth about $100.  Believe me, the average marketing idea submitted so far is definitely not worth $100 (you can read them all here).  So where are all the good ideas?  Where are the videos, flash animations, good catchy stories? 

Geeky and Nerdy Videos

There are some really cool nerdy videos out there that could be great marketing ideas.  Angelo already pointed out the White and Nerdy video and my friend Tim Heuer recently pointed to another cool nerd video by NerdCoreForLife.  As I was YouTube surfing over the weekend I also ran into several others, including one by MC Chris that's pretty funny.  Here are the ones I just mentioned:

If you're in for some more controversial videos, MC Hawkings has some really funny stuff (I'll let you do the Google video search on that one).

A Call for Nerdy Raps, Videos, Images or Animations

One way or another, we're giving away $5,000 in our Geek Marketing Contest and as far as I'm concerned, the field is wide open.  So how about a rap song, a funny viral image, a catchy flash animation or a video submission?  $5,000 can buy a lot of video editing equipment.  Here's a sample shopping spree that you could do on Apple.com with $5,000:

That's an Apple MacBook Pro (2.33Ghz, 2GB RAM, 256MB Video) + an External 23" Cinema Display + a Canon HD Camera + Final Cut Express HD.  What more could you want?  That's the full-blown editing studio. The entire shopping spree?  Just $4,796.95!  That leaves you with some change for an iPod:

The point is, you can do a lot of damage with $5,000 and the contest is wide open, so what are you waiting for?  Jump in!  Submit your idea, video, animation, story, song, or whatever else right now.  To submit, leave a comment on this blog post.  If you're submitting a video, upload it to YouTube and post the link.