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  • Reminder: Celebrate Father's Day With Geek & Sundry's Tabletop
    Last week, we let you know about a great opportunity for you and your family to appear alongside Wil Wheaton and a gallery of geek celebrities on Geek & Sundry's Tabletop. The deadline is approaching at the end of this week, so be sure to get your entry in soon.
    19 hours ago
  • GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: Bolder Boulder
    Here's a proud dad moment: my six-year-old, Leif, just walked or ran every step of the 10k Bolder Boulder race. Sure we had to hustle a couple hundred yards to get ahead of the cutoff van, and ended up finishing just a couple steps ahead of the elite female winner, who started about an hour and forty minutes later than we did. But running a race of 50k people to finish in the packed stadium of CU Boulder was awesome.
    20 hours ago
  • GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution: Waffle Cuts
    This week's puzzle, while delicious, caused quiet a bit of confusion and a few rather interesting answers. Here is the puzzle as presented: This morning as I was making both Max and Nora breakfast, I noticed that while their meals were rather similar in content and form, they were quite different in their divisibility. Max¿s French Toast (or "pain perdu," as he prefers to call it) can be cut an infinite number of ways, as I could vary the cuts both in width/height, as well as angle. Nora¿s waffle, with its rigid lines at right angles, can only be cut a finite number of different ways. So this week's GeekDad Puzzle of the Week came to me in a flash: just how many different ways could Nora's waffle be cut?
    21 hours ago
  • Host of Family Feud Richard Dawson Dies at 79
    Perhaps best known for hosting the game-show Family Feud, game show host extraordinaire Richard Dawson died today at age 79 from the complications of esophageal cancer.
    06.03.12
  • One Time at Space Camp
    The summer hasn't even really started, but I'm already declaring it to be the best summer, ever. This year I was invited to attend a parent and child weekend at Space Camp. Yes, this is the same Space Camp that, if you were like me, you dreamed about attending when you were a kid. I'm happy to report it's every bit as awesome as you'd imagined it would be as a child, except for the part where a series of mishaps mean campers must go on a real space mission to save the planet from impending doom.
    06.03.12
  • How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love 3-D (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
    I am not afraid to admit it: I'm a fan of 3-D movies. At its best, 3-D can add a texture and layering to the visual narrative that a skilled director and editor can spin into magic. At its worst, though, 3-D is annoying and painful. I admit that I have seen some horridly bad 3-D movies recently, but the technology is still growing, and getting better all the time. After a recent tour of 3-D cinema equipment manufacturer 3ality Technica¿s headquarters and an interview with their CEO Steve Schklair, I've seen where that future of 3-D is headed, and it's looking very bright.
    06.03.12
  • Adafruit Industries' Ladyada's Workshop Lego ¿ A Lego Cuusoo Project
    Recently, Lego has been specifically targeting young girls in a variety of marketing campaigns, and with the addition of a Lego Friends line. This has resulted in a lot of heated debate. Enter Limor Fried -- founder of Adafruit and featured on the magazine cover of Wired in April 2011 ¿ and the Ladyada's Workshop Lego set.
    06.02.12
  • Book Review: The True Adventures of The World's Greatest Stuntman
    Vic has been doing stunts in movies and on television since the 60's and the list of projects he's been involved with is impressive. He's been Indiana Jones, James Bond and even Superman. He gets to play all the best characters, even though no one knows it's him. Reading his stories about his time on various sets and the challenges of being a stuntman is a behind-the-scenes of some of the biggest movies ever made.
    06.02.12
  • TableTop with Wil Wheaton: Munchkin
    Who needs television when there are YouTube channels like Geek & Sundry? One of my favorite shows on Geek & Sundry is TableTop with Wil Wheaton. TableTop is a reality table-top gaming (board games, card games, pencil-and-paper role-playing games) show where Wil invites other geek-celebrities to play new or popular board games.
    06.01.12
  • Review: With Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson Crafts a Living Instagram Photo
    In Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson's latest movie, two 12-year-olds fall madly in love with each other on an island off the New England coast in the summer of 1965. Sam sports a raccoon cap, geeky glasses and a scout uniform; Suzy wears lurid blue eye makeup that never seems to come off, and earrings made of fishhooks. Their young love is doomed, of course, and so they run off into the wilderness together, drawing the ire of the adults around them.
    06.01.12
  • Video: Lord of the Rings, DC Heroes Get Lego-fied
    Lego is expanding into even more beloved nerd universes. At E3, Warner Bros. will show two major new entries in the cooperative action game franchise: Lego Batman 2 and Lego Lord of the Rings.
    06.01.12
  • Surface Tension's Watery Art Will Hit You Like a Rogue Wave
    Water is one of the chief concerns of our time: It's scarce, necessary, polluted and sacred. It's also been defined by the United Nations as a basic human right, while at the same time rapidly becoming a commodity. These tensions and contradictions form the underlying principles behind new art exhibit Surface Tension: The Future of Water, now showing in New York.
    06.01.12
  • Review: Test Driving the 2012 McLaren MP4-12C
    Supercars should look like sex. This is what the voice inside my head has been insisting since I was 14 years old, when the very same (if slightly less mature) spirit guide led me to hang a Lamborghini Countach poster above my bed and doodle Ferrari Testarossas all over my Pee Chee folders. But somehow, to ...
    06.01.12
  • Dork Tower Friday
    Dork Tower is an online comic created, written and drawn by John Kovalic. It chronicles the lives of a group of geeks living in the fictional town of Mud Bay, Wisconsin.
    06.01.12
  • Product Review: ION Audio's Piano Apprentice System
    The ION Audio Piano Apprentice is a fun, unique way to introduce a young musician to the piano. The Piano Apprentice combines a 25-key keyboard with an iOS-compatible device and the free Piano Apprentice teaching app available from the Apple App Store. The app works with or without the keyboard.
    06.01.12
  • Manned DIY Parachute Jump Test Sunday
    This coming Sunday, a do-it-yourself space program will test a parachute for its space capsule by strapping it to a person. Rocket Shop blogger and Copenhagen Suborbitals co-founder Kristian von Bengtson reports.
    06.01.12
  • Review: In Dark Huntsman, Snow White Is an Enchanting Badass
    Snow White and the Huntsman was concocted using curious alchemy: It's a feminist retelling of one of the oldest fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, orchestrated by a first-time director whose previous credits were in commercials. The film casts an Oscar winner as an evil queen, America's next action hero as a drunk knight-in-shining-armor type (minus the armor) and cinema's coldest vampire plaything as the titular princess.
    06.01.12
  • Comics as Literature, Part 1: The Usual Suspects
    Okay, I've had my rants (here and here) about comics being serious literature but those were really more about being pedantic than the actual appreciation of comics. So I started compiling my lists and thinking about which titles I'd want to include in a list of "serious comics." And here's the best part: there's a lot of them.
    06.01.12


 

 

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