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• Timothy Zahn's Heir Comes of Age
  Sometime in the summer of 1991, when I had rented my first apartment and was staying in Bowling Green, Ohio between my sophomore and junior years of college, my hometown best friend Aaron came over for a visit. He brought with him a thick, new hardback book with a giant Star Wars title logo emblazoned on ...
  09.05.11

• Last Chance to Enter to Win a Free Copy of Launch Pad
  Have you entered to win a copy of Stratus Games' Launch Pad yet? Well, get on it, because there's not much time left! A few weeks ago, we reviewed Stratus Games' Launch Pad, a cutthroat game about building rockets, launching them into space, and sabotaging your opponents' efforts to do the same. I had a lot ...
  09.05.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Monday, September 5th
  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?), ...
  09.05.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Sunday, September 4th
  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?), ...
  09.04.11

• Do Artists Need Math?
  Perhaps that isn't the best title, but it will do. Really the question is about art students that have to take remedial math. First, let it be known that I like to try and keep up with news about Louisiana and higher education. Why? Because I want to be the first ...
  09.03.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Saturday, September 3rd
  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?), ...
  09.03.11

• How the Starz-Netflix Divorce Will Remake Video
  What Netflix and its competitors become now will determine the future of how we watch video for years to come.
  09.02.11

• Dr. Sudoku Prescribes: Only Five Calcudoku
  This week¿s prescription is a calcudoku variation where there's something missing in each row and column.
  09.02.11

• What's New in the World of Munchkin
  It's been a while since we looked at all the cool new stuff from Munchkin, so let's kick down the door and see what new treasure there is for us. First up, at PAX Prime this past weekend, Steve Jackson Games showed off some awesome new artwork for the upcoming Munchkin: The Guild booster pack. Len ...
  09.02.11

• The Trilogy Is Complete (And This Time Without the Noooooo!)
  It's less than two weeks now until The Great Tinkerer, Mr. George Lucas, bestows upon us his latest "updated vision" of our beloved Star Wars movies on Blu-ray. If you're one of the many of us for whom these latest tweaks have left a bad taste in your mouth (NSFW language), then might I offer ...
  09.02.11

• Doctor Who Recap: "Let's Kill Hitler"
  SPOILER ALERT! Previous Episode: "A Good Man Goes to War" Mels: Let's see, you've got a time machine, I've got a gun. What the hell, let's kill Hitler. You knew that was going to have to be somebody's line before this episode went to the intro credits, and it happens to be a "new" character by the name ...
  09.02.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Friday, September 2nd
  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?), ...
  09.02.11

• Dork Tower Friday -- On 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.
  09.01.11

• Android Blasts Into Space to Work With Robots
  Google's Android platform is shooting for the moon. NASA sent two Android-powered Nexus S smartphones into space with the last manned space shuttle, Atlantis, on the STS-135 mission. The duo of smartphones were used to test and investigate how humans and robots can coexist in space more efficiently.
  09.01.11

• Voting Ends Tomorrow! Send the GeekDads (and Moms) to South by South West
  Once a year, a conflagration of techno, film, and music geeks descends on Austin (that's in Texas) for a little thing we like to call "South By" (the short form for South by South West). The event attracts tens of thousands of participants over two weeks in mid-march to hear the best and brightest in ...
  09.01.11

• Barry Steakfries Returns for a Jetpack Joyride
  09.01.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Thursday, September 1st
  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?), ...
  09.01.11

• EpicMix Lets You Get Your Hero On
  Perched at the top of your favorite ski run on a glorious powder day, you drop your skis off the catwalk and rip through a foot of freshly fallen hero snow, every turn perfectly carved. For a lot of skiers, the only thing that makes that already-awesome experience cooler is photos of it. But that requires someone ...
  08.31.11

• MoonBots 2.0 Lego Robot Competition Winners Announced
  Winners are officially announced for the 2nd Google Lunar X-Prize LEGO Mindstorms Robot Challenge.
  08.31.11

• China Analyst: U.S. Can't Win in Space, So Why Bother Racing?
  China is finally launching as many satellites into space as the United States, the first time the U.S. has faced serious celestial competition since the height of the Cold War. Rather than wage a new space race, one China expert says to play to U.S. strengths -- by focusing on the skies, not the stars.
  08.31.11

• Today Is Deadline for Thousand-Year Game Design Challenge
  Back in January, we mentioned game designer extraordinaire Daniel Solis's Thousand-Year Game Design Challenge. The contest is all about creating a game that will still be played in the year 3011. No mean feat. After all, a thousand years is a long time. But Daniel's making it interesting, putting up $1,000 of his own money ...
  08.31.11

• More on Twitter vs. Earthquakes
  First, there is this awesome Twitter commercial. This has inspired me to fix some things. First, I still feel bad about my last post about the speed of seismic waves. I was using this data from the USArray of detectors. For some crazy reason, I had the frame rate of the video they ...
  08.31.11

• Cellphones and the Net 'Spoil' Films -- And It's All Our Fault
  A rash of unauthorized photos and cellphone videos shed lots of light on fan-favorite movies like The Dark Knight Rises and The Avengers. But do the leaks really spoil movies?
  08.31.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Wednesday, August 31st
  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?), ...
  08.31.11

• The Setup: Guitar Gear to Take You From the Bedroom to the Stage
  Everything you need to shred like a pro, whether you're in your studio apartment, a recording studio or live on stage
  08.30.11

• Dork Tower Special Edition
  Thanks to John Kovalic for this special Dork Tower in response to the Alyssa Bereznak/Jon Finkel kerfuffle. 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.
  08.30.11

• EL Wire-Enhanced Lego Light Cycle Achieves New Levels of 'Leetness
  Lego builder Kaminoan built this Tron light cycle, using a design created by Ewok in Disguise. But he added electroluminescent (EL) wire to increase the 'leetness -- the wire glows when current passes through it. [Via the Brothers Brick]
  08.30.11