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Toy Story Mania! For Wii: Looks Good, Needs Work

Based on the attraction of the same name at Disney theme parks, and featuring characters from the Disney/Pixar films, Toy Story Mania! is a multiplayer mini-game collection, available exclusively for the Wii. While many of the games are entertaining ...

From BRAD MOON, Wired,  22 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Pixar

Sunday in Kyoto is an Artistic Musical Storybook

Sunday in Kyoto, the latest release from publisher The Secret Mountain, is a storybook and accompanying CD featuring songs written by Gilles Vigneault. We pointed out a previous Secret Mountain offering called My Name is Chicken Joe back in April of ...

From BRAD MOON, Wired,  20 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Cirque du Soleil,  Patrick Watson (musician)

Toronto’s Historic Sites Free For Kids This Saturday

Just a quick note to let readers in the Toronto, Ontario area know that the city is offering free admission for kids 12 and under to the city’s numerous historic sites. This includes Fort York, Gibson House, Spadina Museum and Colborne Lodge (details ...

From BRAD MOON, Wired,  20 Nov 2009

Camping In A Caboose

I spent a rather unusual weekend with my boys, Jon and Aidan. Unusual for two reasons: it was warm, short sleeves weather outside (very strange for London, Ontario where it’s more likely I’d be shovelling snow this time of year than sunning) and we ...

From BRAD MOON, Wired,  16 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Canadian National

Sansa Clip+ Sounds Like A Winner

With the Sansa Clip+ MP3 Player, Sansa takes another run at the low end portable music market. While the first generation Clip didn’t quite dethrone the iPod Shuffle despite the inclusion of a 1,000 song slotRadio card, thanks to a more colorful ...

From BRAD MOON, Wired,  9 Nov 2009

GeekDad Tests More Sony eReaders

Sony Reader Pocket Edition and Reader Touch Edition. Note the glare from an overhead light in the Touch screen. Photo: Brad Moon. While the Barnes & Noble Nook adds more fuel to the eBook reader war, I recently completed two weeks of putting Sony’s ...

From BRAD MOON, Wired,  2 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Sony,  Barnes & Noble, Inc.,  E-Ink,  Best Buy

700 Jack O’ Lanterns

The Kennedy Family from London, Ontario (Canada) hold a yearly Halloween event benefiting the London Food Bank and featuring hundreds of Jack O’ Lanterns.   We arrived just as night was falling on the 30th and the home was already visible from blocks ...

From BRAD MOON, Wired,  31 Oct 2009

Animation Express Showcases The Art Of Animation

The National Film Board of Canada’s Animation Express, a collect of experimental, artistic and often award-winning animated shorts is now available to US customers in both DVD and Blu-ray versions. We first mentioned this collection as part of the ...

From BRAD MOON, Wired,  30 Oct 2009

Get A Booklife

Just a quick note to let you know that Jeff VanderMeer’s highly recommended writer’s guide,  Booklife: Strategies And Survival Tips For The 21st-Century Writer, is now shipping.  VanderMeer is well known to Geekdad readers; in fact, yours truly is ...

From BRAD MOON, Wired,  26 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Cory Doctorow

Wood Barrel Pen Flirts With Steampunk Look

A writer’s gotta have pens, even in this modern day.  While I usually spend my time attached to a variety of keyboards (or virtual keyboards), there are some things that still demand actual ink-based handwriting. Because I write by hand so infrequently, ...

From BRAD MOON, Wired,  24 Oct 2009
Related Topics: WIRED Magazine,  Montblanc

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