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• Storyboard: Listen to This Before, Not During, Your Next Flight
  Dreading your next flight to visit family? Or an upcoming work trip? Even worse, travel combining both? Wired understands. Travel today isn't always pleasurable or desirable, but you can improve the experience of moving through time and space. The Travel Optimizer package in Wired's October issue helps you travel better, and possibly even enjoy it. Learn ...
  09.28.11

• Recovery Club: Pro-Level Training Tools for Weekend Warriors
  Professional athletes have for years had access to better training tools and techniques than us workaday amateurs. Now a new club makes these tools available to anyone for $60 a month.
  09.28.11

• Review: Amusing Burnout Crash Does Neither
  About a week ago, Burnout Crash launched on Xbox Live Arcade and the Playstation Network. It's a downloadable arcade game where players earn money by causing mayhem at the local busy intersection on Main Street. How do you cause mayhem in traffic, you ask? You start by crashing into other cars that have the misfortune ...
  09.28.11

• Jake & The Never Land Pirates Comes to DVD
  Generally speaking I am a fair judge of the kinds of entertainment that my kids will dig. This is because, for good or ill, we tend to experience things like music, movies and video games together. Even when I'd rather bury my head in the sand to avoid a particularly annoying brand of children's entertainment. One ...
  09.28.11

• Nyko Zoom Offers Mixed Results for Kinect Gaming
  Impressions of Nyko's new Kinect peripheral the Zoom have been harshly polarized, with some praising the effectiveness of its space-saving design and others lamenting the fact that this promising device seems downright nonfunctional. My own review treads between these two extremes, as I've both experienced the highs and lows of this particular device. My earliest hours ...
  09.28.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Wednesday, September 28th
  As we've reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day's puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they've decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm... Google a Day? GD? GeekDad?), ...
  09.28.11

• Dork Tower Tuesday
  Read all the Dork Towers that have run on GeekDad. Find the Dork Tower webcomic archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower Website.
  09.27.11

• Geeking Out With Theme Park Designers at SATE'11
  When I told my nine year-old that I met the person who created the Clutch Powers Lego hero, he screamed with excitement. The true heroes of the theme park world (the people who dream up, design, and build our favorite themed attractions around the world) converged at the Ports of Call at Sea World in ...
  09.27.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Tuesday, September 27th
  As we've reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day's puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they've decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm... Google a Day? GD? GeekDad?), ...
  09.27.11

• Lego Robot iPad Tester Saves You Valuable Finger Energy
  There's no better way to handle a boring, repetitive task than to let a robot do it for you. Except, of course, if it's a Lego robot. How much cooler can you get than that? (Answer: Not much.) That's exactly what Pheromone Labs did when they were tasked with manually testing the iPad 2's camera app 10,000-15,000 ...
  09.26.11

• Netflix Isn't a Cable Company; Netflix Is a Video Channel
  Have you guys seen Shrek Forever After? (Don't worry; I'm going somewhere with this.) So after the first three Shrek movies, the once-disruptive ogre has settled down into quiet, prosperous family life. But the problem with his quiet, prosperous family life is that it's boring. Shrek misses his old, wild days of being untamed and terrifying. ...
  09.26.11

• How to Hatch a Dinosaur
  Scientists know how to turn a chicken into a dinosaur. What could possibly go wrong?
  09.26.11

• Find The Geekiest Places To Visit On Earth With NerdyDayTrips.com
  Here on Geekdad, we like to share with you all the geeky places we take our families to, be they Science Museums, Woodland adventures or even good old fashioned Theme parks, but there's obviously so much to do that we couldn't ever hope of mentioning even a fraction of them all - which is where ...
  09.26.11

• Toronto Comic Book Shop Claims to Be World's First for Kids
  Like many GeekDads and our readers, I frequently take my kids to the local comic book shops. Despite the fact that digital media is increasingly invading our household (including a growing appreciation for the iPad as a comic book reading platform), there's something to be said for the ambiance of the physical store: the browsing, ...
  09.26.11

• GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: Creepy Class Pets
  With kids back to school and Halloween on its way I thought it would be nice to combine the two for a good old fashioned logic puzzle. Edgar Allan Poe Elementary is not like other schools. Instead of the usual goldfish or hamster for a class pet, these kids like to pay homage to their ...
  09.26.11

• Lensbaby Movie Maker's Kit for Foggy Flicks
  Lensbabys, with their dreamy blur, shifting sweet spots and weird out-of-focus highlights, would seem to be just about perfect for movie makers. The folks at Lensbaby seem to have thought the exact same thing, and have bundled just about everything they sell into a box and called it the Movie Maker's Kit. The kit has lenses ...
  09.26.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Monday, September 26th
  As we've reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day's puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they've decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm... Google a Day? GD? GeekDad?), ...
  09.26.11

• The Deck-Building Ascension on the iPad
  Earlier this summer I mentioned that the deck-building game Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer was coming to the iPad and iPhone. I finally got to give it a shot recently. I think they've done a good job translating the game from cards to an app, but some of my original reservations about the game still ...
  09.25.11

• GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution: Arrr! Corrosive Gecko Be Back!
  Thank you for not killing my gecko. For whatever reason, I'm rather fond of him. For those of you who missed it, our friend Corrosive Gecko was in dire need of guidance up a fairly basic fence and must move according to the following rules: 1. Each turn, Corrosive Gecko must move exactly one leg ...
  09.24.11

• Celebrate Jim Henson's Birthday by Reading Tale of Sand
  It should come as no surprise to anyone that Jim Henson, who would have been 75 today, had a lot more up his sleeves that he didn't get to complete. One such work is an unproduced, feature-length screenplay co-written with Jerry Juhl, which turned up in The Jim Henson Company's archives. According to info from ...
  09.24.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Saturday, September 24th
  As we've reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day's puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they've decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm... Google a Day? GD? GeekDad?), ...
  09.24.11

• iOS Developers Reporting In-App Purchasing Outage
  A key security feature of Apple's in-app billing feature for iOS apps has been down since Thursday night, making it difficult for app developers to verify legitimate sales and leaving some of them worried they're losing money.
  09.23.11

• Neal Stephenson's Reamde: Baroque or Bloated?
  Neal Stephenson's Reamde opens with a target practice session at the Forthrast clan's annual Thanksgiving gathering. Various firearms -- shotguns, Glocks, assault rifles -- are discharged by uncles, nephews, nieces and boyfriends into an Iowa pasture. Fun for the whole family. The spasm of gunfire is prophetic. By the time Stephenson's world-girdling novel has reached its exhaustive ...
  09.23.11

• Doctor Who Recap: "The God Complex"
  Last Time: "The Girl Who Waited" SPOILER ALERT! In a cross between Agatha Christie's "And Then there Were None" and the Greek myth of Theseus, this weeks episode takes place almost entirely within a 1980's style british hotel with infinite corridors and rooms. Imagine Fawlty Towers, but with no Basil or Manuel and no way out. Trust ...
  09.23.11

• Alt Text: Facebook, Google Battle for Hearts and Minds of Jerks
  Facebook has been revamping with the speed and intensity of a traditional revamping master, in its constant battle to beat out Google for "total number of users pissed off by free services." It's not hard to irritate people on a social media site, of course. The two easiest ways to do it are: 1. Change something. 2. Don't ...
  09.23.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Friday, September 23rd
  As we've reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day's puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they've decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm... Google a Day? GD? GeekDad?), ...
  09.23.11

• Dork Tower Thursday
  Read all the Dork Towers that have run on GeekDad. Find the Dork Tower webcomic archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower Website.
  09.22.11