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• Dork Tower Friday
  Find the Dork Tower webcomic archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower website: www.dorktower.com.
  15 hours ago

• This Week With the GeekMoms
  This week the GeekMoms are having fun both at play and on vacation--and a little of both.
  16 hours ago

• Sookie Scores the Plot
  There's this little series on HBO called True Blood. You might have heard of it. You may have even heard it's based on a series of books somewhere. But who has time to read when there's great sex and gore on TV? Find. The. Time.
  16 hours ago

• Robo-Cams at the Olympic Games Make Human Photogs Sweat
  At this year's Olympic games, Reuters, in addition to its army of traditional photographers, will have 11 robots set up in places no shooter would otherwise be able to get.
  18 hours ago

• TV Fact-Checkers: Breaking Down Breaking Bad's Dark Chemistry
  If there's one thing constantly running through the heads of nerds watching Breaking Bad it's that Walter White might be the most badass chemist of all time. Most of the badass part comes from the skills of Bryan Cranston, who plays White, but the chemist part comes from the diligent work of researchers Gordon Smith and Jenn Carroll, who make sure every molecular formula that comes out of his mouth is perfect.
  18 hours ago

• Teaching and Understanding Physics Using Lego
  During my last quest for Lego-based teaching inspiration, I came across those amazing teaching kits and booklets from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the Queen Mary University of London. In just a couple of pages and build instructions, particle physics appeared simple and at reach for Junior High and High School students, or myself...
  20 hours ago

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for July 20
  Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
  07.20.12

• Video Offers Glimpse of Trent Reznor's New Music for Black Ops II
  A new video offers intriguing glimpses into Trent Reznor's latest musical project, but it's not a new Nine Inch Nails album: It's theme music for upcoming videogame Call of Duty: Black Ops II.
  07.19.12

• Review: The Dark Knight Rises Breaks the Bat-Mold, Whether You Like It or Not
  How do you top The Dark Knight, the most powerful and realistic superhero movie ever made? By crafting a film that's bigger, bolder and better than its predecessor. How does the final act of Christopher Nolan's bat-trilogy stack up?
  07.19.12

• Super-Silent Owl Drone Will Spy on You Without You Ever Noticing
  For spy tools, drones are pretty easy to spot. And hear, because they're as loud as a gut-busting rock concert. But now the intelligence community's research division, Iarpa, plans to start designing a silent drone inspired by quiet, creeping, flying owls.
  07.19.12

• Dork Tower Thursday
  Find the Dork Tower webcomic archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower website: www.dorktower.com.
  07.19.12

• Xeko Makes an Updated Kickstarter Comeback
  Xeko is a game that was first available as a trading card game in 2005. It is now being reintroduced as a digital game through Kickstarter.
  07.19.12

• Heroes of Ruin Is Flawed but Fantastic
  Since its big reveal more than a year ago, Square Enix's Heroes of Ruin has enjoyed a unique brand of buzz among handheld gamers. Loot-heavy dungeon-crawlers with solid multiplayer support aren't exactly easy to come by on the Nintendo 3DS, so those of us who appreciate both this classic style of gameplay and the specific strengths of that portable were hard-pressed to find any other suitable alternative.
  07.19.12

• Obese Kids Have Lower Math Scores
  In June a study of 6,250 kids published in the journal Child Development found that obese children feel sadder, lonelier and more anxious and that these feelings largely explain obese children's lower scores on math standardized tests. But the patterns of these decreased scores are interesting and the questions they raise may be even more important than the findings.
  07.19.12

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for July 19
  Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
  07.19.12

• Listen: The Awesomely Low-Tech, Mouth-Made Videogame Soundtrack
  When Amanita Design released Botanicula earlier this year, fans knew the game was going to be good. The indie game maker had a track record; in 2009 they released a point and click puzzle game called Machinarium that won them heaps of awards and a dedicated fan base. Botanicula¿s early art was promising -- a cross between a avant guarde kids book and indie band cover art -- but what ultimately pushed it over the edge were its noises, created by the Czech band DVA.
  07.18.12

• NASA's Next Big Rover to Hunt for Water on the Moon
  A joint project between NASA's Kennedy Space Center and the Canadian Space Agency has yielded a lunar rover called Resolve which will search for water sources on the Moon.
  07.18.12

• Dork Tower Wednesday
  Find the Dork Tower webcomic archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower website: www.dorktower.com.
  07.18.12

• Bop It! Smash: Lightning-Quick Reflexes Not Included
  That weird dumbbell-shaped gizmo is the latest incarnation of Hasbro's popular Bop It! toy. The older models had various things to bop, twirl, pull, and tweak ¿ all set to various sound effects and a voice shouting instructions at you. The Bop It! Smash takes the basic "bop" control and boils it down to a game of fast reflexes.
  07.18.12

• Constellation Cookies That Are Out of This World
  Scientifically accurate constellation cookies by Bridget Edwards at Bakeat350.blogspot.com.
  07.18.12

• Form vs. Function: Wood Shell and KidSafe Cases for iPhone 4S
  I love a good iPhone case, but as my junk drawer fills up with more and more options it becomes that much harder for a simple phone cover to make a proper impression. Still, there are those at work crafting innovative new shells for the ubiquitous iPhone 4/4S, even if what sets them apart also limits their overall utility.
  07.18.12

• Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer: Geekdom's Power Couple on Sandman Prequel and Kickstarter Success
  Fantasy author Neil Gaiman made headlines around the world last week when he announced a return to the beloved Sandman series for the comic's 25th anniversary. It will be the first new Sandman story in a decade, and nobody was more excited by the news than Wired. We caught up with Gaiman the day after the announcement at a gallery in the Mission, where his wife, the powerhouse musician and performance artist Amanda Palmer, was preparing to take the stage for a standing-room-only concert appearance.
  07.18.12

• Go Inside a Mercenary Company in Iraq in Unflinching Comic Blackwater Chronicles
  The Blackwater Chronicles is a gritty, unflinching portrait of hard men in a hard place at a moment in history that most Americans would probably prefer to forget.
  07.18.12

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for July 18
  Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
  07.18.12

• ARGs on Your Bookshelf: New Book Explores Transmedia Entertainment
  Andrea Phillips recently published A Creator's Guide to Transmedia Storytelling. The book provides a taste of the creative and practical considerations that go into transmedia projects.
  07.17.12

• Study: WikiLeaked Data Can Predict Insurgent Attacks
  Insurgencies are amongst the hardest conflicts to predict. Insurgents can be loosely organized, split into factions, and strike from out of nowhere. But now researchers have demonstrated that with enough data, you might actually predict where insurgent violence will strike next. The results, though, don't look good for the U.S.-led war.
  07.17.12

• House Party! The 3-D Light Show You Can Control With an iPad or Wii
  There was a time when concertgoers were perfectly happy just listening to the band play. Not anymore. Today fans expect to see pyrotechnic spectacles with elaborate lighting and special effects for the price of admission. When the time came to create the visuals for Floating -- a new album by Danish electronic artist Rumpistol / Red Baron -- design studio Futura Epsis 1 made something that was a bit of both.
  07.17.12