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• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Monday, June 6th
  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? ...
  06.06.11

• GeekDad HipTrax #73 (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
  Question: What's got four thumbs and loves chiptunes? Answer: The GeekDad HipTrax team! (Although we would've also accepted a hideously misshapen mutant with discriminating musical taste.) Get your bleep on with: "We Throw Shapes" by Superpowerless Oliver Hindle and Jaylyn Coffin, the same duo that brought you Tetrastar's amazing Songs We Didn't Write, are back with a shiny new ...
  06.05.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Sunday, June 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? ...
  06.05.11

• GeekDad Puzzle Solution: As Luck Would Have It, Here's Some Pirate Puzzles
  So, Monday we gave you pirates all week long, for you to give us answers. Today I give you a winner -- a winner by the name of Brooks Boyd. Well done, Brooks: you are this week's winner of the ThinkGeek $50.00 Gift Certificate. Here are the solutions, including a diagram by this week's ...
  06.04.11

• Last Fortnight's Doctor Who Recap: "The Rebel Flesh"
  SPOILER ALERT: While we will discuss what happened in last Saturday¿s episode, we¿ll avoid talking about any future plot details. Last week, BBC America skipped a week of Doctor Who, presumably because of the Monday holiday, so we've been two weeks now without our Whovian fix. This is even more stressful, because it was a two-parter, ...
  06.04.11

• Enter the Mega Dungeon: 65 Square Feet of Adventure (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
  If you're like me, when it comes to your pen-and-paper role-playing games, having a well-illustrated battle map on the table is pretty important. While it's true that you can play a game of Dungeons & Dragons with some graph paper and chess pieces, it just doesn't feel as fun to me as using sculpted miniatures ...
  06.04.11

• Classic Video Game Competition Returns to Funspot (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
  If you're a 30- or 40-something geek like me, you probably played video games as a kid. Not on the personal computer, which in the 70s and 80s was only in its infancy. I mean the big, hulking, stand-up video arcade machines. The ones that ate your allowance (or cafeteria milk money): Pong, Space Invaders, ...
  06.04.11

• Many Bothans Died to Bring You This Posting....
  Okay, so no Bothans (or any other creatures) actually died to bring you this posting; however, the latest line of Muppet figurines are just about cute enough to die for. What makes this series so different from all the others we've seen over the years? Well, imagine Kermit as Luke Skywalker, Piggy as ...
  06.04.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Saturday, June 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? ...
  06.04.11

• The Hobbit: More Awesome or More Awful?
  First, it was confirmed that Orlando Bloom would reprise his role as Legolas in The Hobbit production now being filmed by Peter Jackson and company down in New Zealand. As many of you know, while Legolas features prominently in The Lord of the Rings, the blond elf does not appear in J.R.R. Tolkien's earlier book, ...
  06.03.11

• The Science News Cycle
  Do any "science" stories that made headlines this week come to mind? I can certainly think of a few..
  06.03.11

• Cutthroat Caverns: Teamwork + Betrayal = Fun!
  Overview: "Without teamwork ... you'll never survive. Without betrayal ... you'll never win." That tagline pretty much sums up Cutthroat Caverns, a card-based RPG-style game from Smirk and Dagger. Although it's been around since 2007, it's new to me. You and your fellow players are fighting your way out of the caverns, each hoping to ...
  06.03.11

• Dork Tower Friday
  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.
  06.03.11

• Dr. Sudoku Prescribes: Nonconsecutive Sudoku
  This week¿s prescription is a nonconsecutive sudoku with a twist: only two different digits appear as givens in the grid.
  06.03.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Friday, June 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? ...
  06.03.11

• Feds: WikiLeaks Associates Have 'No Right' To Know About Demands For Their Records
  Three associates of WikiLeaks challenging a government demand for records of their Twitter use have no right to information about similar demands that may have been issued to other internet companies, the Justice Department told a federal judge Thursday. "[T]he subscribers¿ demand for more itemized information about other sealed matters demonstrates their overriding purpose to obtain ...
  06.02.11

• Artist Is Drawing Every H.P. Lovecraft Monster!
  Artist Mike Bukowski loves H.P. Lovecraft, it appears. His website has tentacles on it. He's had a number of art shows focused on the slippery, squamous creatures of the Cthulhu mythos. And so, last June, he began the arduous process of illustrating each and every monstrous denizen of Howard Phillips' horror stories. Says Bukowski: "Since I discovered ...
  06.02.11

• iPad DJ's Year One: 100 Performances, Trolls Silenced
  A year ago, I wrote about a budding innovator, entrepreneur and musician who had this whacky idea that the iPad could be used to make and mix music. The trolls came out in droves when I profiled "iPad DJ" Rana June. What a difference a year makes. The point of the profile that I wrote on ...
  06.02.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Thursday, June 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? ...
  06.02.11

• Classic Video Game Competition Returns to Funspot
  If you're a 30- or 40-something geek like me, you probably played video games as a kid. Not on the personal computer, which in the 70s and 80s was only in its infancy. I mean the big, hulking, stand-up video arcade machines. The ones that ate your allowance (or cafeteria milk money): Pong, Space Invaders, ...
  06.01.11

• IPad Game Offers Creative Revenue for Photog
  Photographer Anne Geddes has found a novel way to make money from her photos: the game section in Apple's App Store. For just 99 cents you can play through 60 levels of Anne Geddes MatchUp, a memory game for the iPad that features photographs from her latest book Beginnings. The book is also available as ...
  06.01.11

• Dork Tower Wednesday
  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.
  06.01.11

• Duo: A Peripheral for Your iPad
  The Yoomi Duo is an interesting device that makes use of the iPad in a (so far) unique way. It allows for an iPad game that has a physical element to it and encourages face-to-face interaction instead of just everyone staring at a screen together. The Duo is a small plastic gizmo with a container ...
  06.01.11

• Cleartones: The Least Annoying Ringtones Ever
  Remember the Crazy Frog? Those were the dark, dark days of cellphone ringtones. Now, annoying novelty tunes seem to have been replaced by one of two things: a tinny snippet of some currently popular tune, or a bell that mimics an old landline phone and makes me pull my own phone out of my pocket ...
  06.01.11

• The Art of the Brick Exhibition in Melbourne, Australia
  Decent exhibitions of Lego modelling are few and far between in Australia. We have no LegoLand. We have a great Adult Fans of Lego community, some fine builders - but rarely the chance to see their work. So, the opening of Lego artist Nathan Sawaya's incredible large-scale Lego sculptures in The Art of the Brick exhibition ...
  06.01.11

• GeekDad HipTrax #73
  Question: What's got four thumbs and loves chiptunes? Answer: The GeekDad HipTrax team! (Although we would've also accepted a hideously misshapen mutant with discriminating musical taste.) Get your bleep on with: "We Throw Shapes" by Superpowerless Oliver Hindle and Jaylyn Coffin, the same duo that brought you Tetrastar's amazing Songs We Didn't Write, are back with a shiny new ...
  06.01.11

• USB DJ Controller Plays Pretend Records
  Apart from being a handy way to sneak friends' drugs into a club, a DJ's box of records is increasingly pointless. Why lug all that vinyl when you can just rock up with a computer, or even an iPad? Tactile feedback, you say? Good point. And Gemini DJ has you covered with its new FirstMix ...
  06.01.11