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50 Great Star Wars Band Names

The geek hive mind was set to silly this weekend on Twitter, as the tag ran amok. With many of the GeekDad writers contributing to the frivolity, we felt it important to record some of the results for our readers. We’re not giving specific credit on ...

From KEN DENMEAD, Wired,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc

Exclusive Design Image and Movie Clip from The Fantastic Mr. Fox for GeekDad Readers!

We’ve been hearing some very good buzz about the stop-motion animated film by Wes Anderson (based on a Roald Dahl book), coming out this Wednesday. Now, we’ve gotten something even better - an extended clip from the movie (below), and a character ...

From KEN DENMEAD, Wired,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Wes Anderson,  Roald Dahl

GeekDad Gets Some Good Press (Release)

The success of GeekDad has come from community, from pointing out all the cool geeks around us so we can all revel in what we love. Back when we posted a silly little story called “100 Geeks You Should Be Following On Twittter,” we had no idea what ...

From KEN DENMEAD, Wired,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc

GeekDad Favorite Shape Collage Goes Web-App

Back about 8 months ago, I reviewed a fun, free piece of software called Shape Collage. Long story short: it takes a set of image files and turns them into a collage - some kind of shape or, as you can see about, text. Well, the software’s creator ...

From KEN DENMEAD, Wired,  19 Nov 2009

Character Sheet Resume Says “Hire me, I’m a geek!”

Sean McNally is an artist and animator and came up with an original and memorable way to get his resume looked at by game studios: he made it look like an RPG character sheet. Genius, if you ask me, because what *is* a resume but a form of character ...

From KEN DENMEAD, Wired,  17 Nov 2009

The GeekDads Episode #55: Second Fiddle to a Sleeping Bag

GeekDad.com is the parenting blog at Wired.com, edited by Ken Denmead and Chris Anderson. It is a community of like-minded geeky parents writing about our experiences raising our kids in the digital age, and about our obsessions with technology, family- ...

From KEN DENMEAD, Wired,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Chris Anderson

The Official GeekDad Shirt is Here!

Back in the old days, we had one of those sad little CafePress stores that no one ever went to. But now that GeekDad is, um, less-unpopular, something else was in order. And that something else has been provided by our good friends at ThinkGeek! If you ...

From KEN DENMEAD, Wired,  10 Nov 2009

Testers Wanted for the GeekDad 2.0 Closed Beta

If you’ve been following us on Twitter or listening to the podcasts, you’ll have heard the news that we’re working on rolling out a bunch of new community-focused tools for GeekDad. We’ve always felt like we’ve built a good community here, but we never ...

From KEN DENMEAD, Wired,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc

Birthday Cake for a GeekDad

Our friend Terry turned a certain age this weekend. My wife went out to get him a cake and candles. The only fun cake she could find at the grocery store was Iron Man - not inappropriate for Terry. But more geeky, when it came time to add the candles, ...

From KEN DENMEAD, Wired,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Iron Man

Do You Speak LEGO?

What do you call a 4-stud by 2-stud standard LEGO brick? Certainly not “4-stud by 2-stud standard LEGO brick,” I’ll bet. Indeed, we probably all have our own names for many LEGO parts. And that brings up a truly interesting question of language for ...

From KEN DENMEAD, Wired,  5 Nov 2009

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