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I’m a sucker for small robots, and have a thriving community of the creatures migrating back and forth between my office and home. I suspect they hitch rides in my camera bag, but haven’t been able to catch any of them in the act. Last month a Wall-E and M-O showed up on [...]
We are always looking for good things on television for our kids. I don’t have a problem with television. It’s just a box that displays pictures and makes sound. Content is the key to the good things about television and the bad things about television.
The best television is something that you like, something the kids [...]
Photo by Jerry Avenaim; used under Creative Commons license.
Today another geek legend celebrates a birthday. He’s best known for his series of science fiction novels TekWar… wait, what? Oh, best known for portraying Captain James T. Kirk, William Shatner has cemented himself into geek science fiction lore forever. Today he celebrates his 79th birthday.
William Shatner [...]
To grow salt crystal trees, the magic ingredient is bluing. (Image: Kathy Ceceri)
This month I’ve been teaching a Saturday morning “enrichment” class at a local elementary school combining science and art. Actually, I’ve been going pretty light on the science (since I’ve found that the students would much rather get to work on building their [...]
What is it about us geeks that makes us such great catches for non-geeks? It’s easy to see how geeks would find partners within the world of geekdom, provided they had compatible geek interests. But many of us have managed to find spouses or significant others who are if not completely “normal,” then at least [...]
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Congratulations to Dylan Anderson, who correctly solved this week’s puzzle and is the winner of a $50 gift certificate from the folks over at ThinkGeek.
Puzzle:
This week marks Saint Patrick’s Day, when many of us feel the spirit of the 353. There are plenty of traditions [...]
Photo by Jason Beck. Taken on his iPhone, of course.
GeekDad reader and true geeky dad Jason Beck sent along this awesome picture of the pinewood derby car his son Carter and he made for a race at their Cub Scouts troupe pack. I bet that car handles like a dream, but occasionally drops calls.
Nice job, [...]
There’s no use fighting it: Google has become ubiquitous. Websites can thrive or fail based on their ranking in Google results for important keywords. And result quantities can serve as useful, if unscientific, metrics for terms’ popularity.
I’d been playing around with Google searches based on geek parenting terms for a while, and yesterday’s xkcd inspired [...]
Image: xkcd.com
As reported back in September, the first dead-tree edition of beloved xkcd comic strip was released to fanfare by geeks worldwide. Readers immediately wondered what was up with the peculiar red text peppered throughout.
Turns out, in typical Munroe-vian fashion, the marginalia was all a part of a clever puzzle for the die-hard xkcd fans [...]
Image copyright © 2010 The Muppet Madness Tournament!
If you pay even the least attention to sports in the U.S., you’re surely aware that the NCAA basketball tournaments, popularly known as “March Madness,” start this Thursday. Whether you’re planning to fill out a bracket or not, you should give some time to another, geekier tournament whose [...]