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Articles Written by: BRIAN LITTLE
Why: I asked Chris Anderson to have me on basically as a way of giving myself an outlet for sharing the cool, geeky stuff I keep running across on the Web. Also, I was still a relatively new GeekDad at the time, and I figured that if I planned to raise ...
From BRIAN LITTLE,
Wired,
15 Mar 2009
This is not the sort of thing I'm equipped to try, for a variety of reasons, but Mikey Sklar and his girlfriend Wendy were looking to build an enclosure for their PV battery bank. They eventually settled on a dome of rebar, remesh and papercrete. His ...
From BRIAN LITTLE,
Wired,
18 Feb 2009
My own geeklet is a delightful four-year-old girl who plays with dolls and her toy kitchen. But right along side Daddy's collection of vintage matchbox cars are her classic metal Tonka trucks, and her Tinkertoys. She enjoys being read Disney princess ...
From BRIAN LITTLE,
Wired,
17 Feb 2009
National Geographic is currently running what may well be the coolest series I'll never see: Morphed. Episodes thus far include , Before They Were Bears and When Whales Had Legs. Each episode examines the evolution of a particular modern animal from ...
From BRIAN LITTLE,
Wired,
13 Feb 2009
Ever wondered what your ancestors looked like? No, I don't mean Great Great Great Great Great Grampa Seth. I mean your waaaay-back ancestors. We're talking Lucy-era here.
Well wonder no more, fans of evolution. The Open University's "Devolve Me" site ...
From BRIAN LITTLE,
Wired,
13 Feb 2009
I started out as a graphics geek, long enough ago to remember pasteboards and waxers, and to define "font" as something on a strip of Compugraphic film. Then came digital type, and tools like Fontographer that suddenly allowed mere mortals to create ...
From BRIAN LITTLE,
Wired,
10 Feb 2009
The original Captain Kirk reacts upon seeing the trailer for JJ Adams' Star Trek XI for the first time. I can honestly say I'm surprised at his response. I watched the clip fully expecting to see Shatner go completely ballistic. While he does look ...
From BRIAN LITTLE,
Wired,
10 Jan 2009
We've posted some cool geek cakes here at GeekDad. Some of them have been pretty awesome, but as a fantasy reader, I thought I'd seen the pinnacle when I found the flickr gallery of Astro-Lopithecus and the astounding dragon cake pictured here. The ...
From BRIAN LITTLE,
Wired,
8 Jan 2009
What better way to bring together three of the great loves of geek men: meat, fire, and...Star Wars? No, really. I mean, how many times have you stood in the summer breeze grilling a few tubesteaks and thought "Golly, if I could just find a way to ...
From BRIAN LITTLE,
Wired,
3 Jan 2009
What do you get when you go hunting for "a way to divide a cube equally in three-dimensional space? If you're Naoki Yoshimoto and the year is 1971, you get the Yoshimoto Cube, a peculiar "polyhedral toy" that allows the transformation of a gold cube to ...
From BRIAN LITTLE,
Wired,
2 Jan 2009
