Welcome to the annual Gumball 3000 international road rally, where the players are rich and the spectators wish they were. Episode links: Gumball 3000 (official), Gumball 3000 (wikipedia)

This video is what happens when you put RZA, chess and 3 dorky geeks who like to rap into one giant mixing bowl! The legendary rapper and award winning chess-master decided to start wuchess.com -- a website and give part of the proceeds to scholarships for needy kids. To promote the website, Wuchess and RZA had a contest on YouTube for the best 8 lines about chess. Irina wasn't satisfied with her simplistic little video, so she got her friends and made this! Episode links: WuChess, RZA, George Kelly, Doctor Popular, Karim Amara (special thanks!!) Related on GETV: Hip Hop Chess Tournament

One man can make a difference! That tag line rang through every episode of the hit 80s tv show Knight Rider every Friday night as Michael aka David Hasselhoff raced his faithful K.I.T.T. into the hearts of millions of women -- and men, really -- in the world! In this episode, GETV catches up with the super star in San Francisco where the Hoff joined millionaires in the Gumball 300 rally. After Irina beat up the 500 other reporters trying to creep up on the Hoff, David tells Irina how he's driving that same sleek black horsepower into the future, this time on the internets -- the power of THE HOFF is so strong, he's got his own social network where he makes dreams come true. Yes, you too can join HOFF SPACE and get your own HOFF BAG for those times when HOFF WIG is exactly what you need for the occasion. Episode links: David Hasselhoff, DavidHasselhoff.com (HoffSpace), Gumball 3000

We spent some quality time at this year's mega sci-fi spectacle Comic-Con, held annually in San Diego. Here we take a quick visual tour of the exhibition hall and the autograph lounge. How many faces and characters do you recognize? Episode links: Comic-Con 2008, Photos

If you haven't heard of Star Wars, stop reading now. If you have heard of Star Wars and especially Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, then you're in for a treat. Alex spent several years working at Industrial Lights and Magic working on Star Wars #4, er, #1, and is also the founder of Pixel Corps, a "guild of digital craftsmen" where Alex trains future geekstars in everything digital. Irina interrupts Alex Lindsay's video production bootcamp class and tortures him with deep meaningful questions such as -- who was the first girl who flipped his boat? Turns out it was the lovely Lorraine.... Alex hosts This Week in Media and is a regular guest on the This Week in Tech. Alex also produces MacBreak Weekly. Episode links: Alex Lindsay, Pixel Corps, This Week in Media

Irina has been shadowing dragstar Heklina around San Francisco for so long, she may as well get a Tranny Chaser t-shirt! You can get one for yourself at Heklina's legendary party called Trannyshack -- mucking up our fair city weekly for 12 years, the club night has been officially recognized by our own special mayor, Gavin Newsom. No Cher or Barbara Streisand here, these drag queens do songs by Arcade Fire, Peaches, Missy Elliot, Bjork and the inimitable Kate Bush. Heklina has hosted Mary Wilson of the Supremes, Charo, Gwen Stefani and NY party monster Lady Bunny. Ana Matronic of the Scissor Sisters performed frequently at Trannyshack before moving to New York. Heklina IS a super drag geek and here we get a piece of history and a totally different kind of geek. Episode links: Heklina, Trannyshack, Trannsformation photos [thanks Tara Spalty]

While some of tech nobodies thought some kind of Apple event crowded out San Francisco with geeky types, Irina knew better. Tens of thousands of people pummeled our fair city with their presence to attend the WWWDC -- the World Wide Wrestling Developers Conference, where nerdy alter ego's of pale weaklings body-slammed each other deep into the night! Irina's wresting twin, The Kazakhstane Krusher -- no impostor like Borat (the entire film was shot in Romania!) -- Irina was born in the nuclear waste fields of the former Soviet republic, and has the anatomic anomalies to prove it. Some of those anomalies are included in her signature moves, the K-Rocket Launchers! Lets see what kind of damage the bone-thin denizens of geekdom can bring in the wresting ring! Episode links: Buzz's WWDC Party, Kazakhstan, Buzz Anderson (The Bootlegger), Kevin Rose ("help me!"), Gutter Grill (Minna Bartender), Micah Saul (Guillotine Geek), Andy Smith (Bandito el Burrito)

June 11 is John Wayne's birthday and what better way to commemorate the Duke's enduring legacy than the John Wayne Memorial Balloon Fight at Alamo Square in San Francisco? Don't answer that, let's let Irina try. Episode links: John Wayne, John Wayne Memorial Balloon Fight, Music: Doctor Popular

Ben Huh, chief cheezburger of I Can Has Cheezburger has turned his love of LOLCats into a popular site and even scored a book deal. While at MIT for ROFLCon, he stepped into the role of Stephen LOLking to explain the mysteries of his Universal Theory of LOLS to Irina. Episode Links: Ben Huh, I Can Has Cheezburger, ROFLCon

JibJab is known for their short, funny music and political videos that you've no doubt forwarded to your mother or sister at least twice. While at ROLFcon in Boston, we ran into three mustachioed men who are writers and producers for JibJab. Irina demands they be funny. Episode links: JibJab, ROFLcon, Scott Beale / Laughing Squid (Irina's photos)