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This week at GeekDad puzzle central we found out that we’re not the only ones who loves a good code breaking puzzle. The readers stepped up and got cracking on these puzzles. The winner of this weeks $50 ThinkGeek gift certificate is Anthony Magnelli. Here are the [...]
Happy Pi Day from the GeekDads!
3/14 is Pi Day.
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Dork Tower #806 by John Kovalic
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Image: Popcap Games
Zombies have been a staple of horror movies for over seventy years, and it’s not hard to see why. Dead people rising from the grave, coming to kill you and eat your brains — who wouldn’t be afraid of that? Plants, on the other hand, have never really been trendy as horror film [...]
Happy Comics Release Day!
Given that I picked on DC earlier this week for their Cry of Justice mini-series and their continual reliance on gore and death, I wanted to spotlight something they did very right.
DC: The New Frontier.
When someone asks me why I love superheroes, this is the story I give them.
The New Frontier was [...]
Dork Tower #805 by John Kovalic
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The International Space Station from the Space Shuttle Atlantis (Image:NASA)
Welcome to another edition of the GeekDad Space Report! The two launches last week of a Glonass navigation satellite and the next GOES weather satellite both made it off the ground, with a couple day delay on the GOES satellite. An interesting launch this week! There [...]
Candace meets Ben Stiller's super villain. Image: Disney XD.
Ben Stiller will be on TV again tonight, and I promise he won’t be blue this time. In fact, you won’t even see his face.
Tonight on a special prime time Phineas and Ferb, Stiller and real-life wife actress Christine Taylor will voice a supervillain and his nagging [...]
By Dave Banks
It hardly seems possible, but GeekDad is very nearly three years old. On March 15, 2007, our beloved Editor Emeritus Chris Anderson published the first article on this blog; it’s been a bit of a long and strange trip from there to here, but we the writers and editors couldn’t be happier about [...]
Image: Lotusland Studios
As the mother of a fledgling car hobbyist, I’m always on the lookout for car and truck-related toys that don’t include back-breaking hazards. Have you ever stepped on a Matchbox car in the middle of the night heading to the bathroom? Even when you thought they were all picked up? Yeah. Our son [...]