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• Last Week's Doctor Who: "The Almost People"
  SPOILER ALERT: While we will discuss what happened in last Saturday��s episode, we��ll avoid talking about any future plot details. NOTE: This is the penultimate episode of the first half of season 6. When last we left The Doctor, he had just discovered that he had a Flesh doppleg��nger, or g��nger. Let's call him DoctorG, to try ...
  06.11.11

• New Heavy Elements Need Geeky Names (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
  The journey to gain official status can be a long trip. Take Elements 114 and 116, for example. First created in a lab a dozen years ago, the isotopes were the focus of a few collaborative teams of scientists working to prove their existence back in 2004. After three years of review, a committee of ...
  06.11.11

• GeekDad Challenge of the Week Solution: Printable Zombie Maze
  There were some spectacular answers to this week's puzzle, including the quote from Jim: "Printed by dad, solved on paper by son, redone in color on PhotoShop by son." That, in short, is why we write and read at GeekDad. Cheers, Jim for making my day. Also notable was possibly the geekiest thing I've ever seen ...
  06.11.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Saturday, June 11th
  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? ...
  06.11.11

• NATO's Newest Bombing Tool: Twitter
  In the early days of the Libya war, U.S. commanders were adamant that they didn't communicate with the Libyan rebels about what targets to bomb. As it turns out, they don't need to. They've got Twitter. NATO officials conducting air strikes on forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi don't have soldiers on the ground to spot for ...
  06.10.11

• Who's Ready For Super 8?
  I love a good science fiction story and--as a fan of J. J. Abrams LOST--I've been anticipating the release of Super 8 for months. The plot has been kept under wraps, but here's what we know so far: It's 1979 in a fictional town called Lillian, Ohio, where a group of teens set out to ...
  06.10.11

• Dr. Sudoku Prescribes: Mystery TomTom
  This week��s prescription is a themed calcu-doku puzzle where the numbers to enter are unknown.
  06.10.11

• 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.
  06.10.11

• Pentagon's New Factory: Your DNA
  Darpa is sick and tired of waiting around for Mother Nature. Instead, it wants to take the life-making business into its own hands -- and manufacture new biological forms in a factory of mix-and-match bio-bits. A recent call for research by the Pentagon's mad science agency proposes a new program called "Living Foundries." The idea is ...
  06.10.11

• Crane Disaster Caught on Film...
  It's a safe bet that just about anyone reading GeekDad has seen the series of photos of a mishap involving a crane lifting a submerged car out of the ocean at dockside. I've lost count of the number of times the pictures and accompanying story has been forwarded to me by email, so I ...
  06.10.11

• Dude, Where's Cesar's Car? The Super Civic Quest
  Cesar the Luchador has lost his prized Honda Civic, and has refused to compete in his title bout against el Burrito Caliente until the car is recovered. In this online puzzle hunt RPA created for Honda, participants must hunt through a series of popular online websites for a chance to win music downloads, Facebook Credit, ...
  06.10.11

• Space-Based Solar Power: An Overview
  Let's face it: we live in world that provides a quality of life that exceeds the dreams of historical kings and emperors. At the touch of a button, we have light, heat, clean water, instantaneous communication, boundless access to information, miracle medical technology, and a near-endless variety of food. Whether we realize it ...
  06.10.11

• Even Kids Can Help Save the Planet
  You don't have to have a degree and a lot of experience to find ways to use our resources more efficiently. Two years ago, at the age of 7, Mason Perez��hypothesized��that he was wasting a lot of water when washing his hands. By simply turning down the water pressure using the valves already installed under most ...
  06.10.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Friday, June 10th
  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? ...
  06.10.11

• "Punch it, Chulley!"
  As one of the blog's resident fashion nerds, part of my morning routine includes checking my favorite daily t-shirt sites. Today's haul proved particularly enlightening, and, I dare say, topical. As many of my fellow geeks are waiting patiently for this fall's release of these amazing Star Wars/Muppets figures at the nearest available Disney park, ...
  06.09.11

• Legends of the Joystick: Where Are They Now?
  Gene Luen Yang and Thien Pham, author and illustrator of the recent Level Up graphic novel, have been having fun with classic video game characters over at Tor.com. Each four-panel comic is a sort of "where are they now?" with famous characters like Mario, Centipede, Q-bert, and Frogger. So far there are only four strips ...
  06.09.11

• Meet an Actual Lego Master Builder!
  Imagine being at a social gathering and someone asks you, ��So, what do you do for a living?�� How cool would it be to answer, in all honesty, ��I��m a Lego Master Builder.�� That��s what Steve Gerling gets to say. And, according to him, the looks of shock and awe he gets when he answers, ...
  06.09.11

• The Impending Robopocalypse
  The buzz around Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson started over a year ago with the announcement that a movie would possibly be made about his not-yet-finished novel about a robot uprising. Since then, early reviews and speculation have kept interest and hopes high as the release date neared. I got my hands on my pre-ordered ...
  06.09.11

• Let's Put on a Show!
  I was hanging out with my nephews over the weekend. Jack and Henry are aged 8 and 4 respectively.��A couple years back, Jack took tap dancing lessons. When he outgrew his shoes, and became a wee bit self-conscious about being only boy in the dance class, he hung up his vaudeville dreams.��But now the shoes fit Henry. ...
  06.09.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Thursday, June 9th
  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? ...
  06.09.11

• Army Seeks Social Media Gurus to Save Afghan War
  Know how to Tweet? Or how to put words into the mouths of foreign security functionaries? If so, the U.S. Army wants you to help un-quagmire the Afghanistan war. A new solicitation from the Army seeks communications experts to run the full spectrum of outreach and messaging for the war effort. A new "Web Content/Social Media ...
  06.08.11

• MoonBots Registration Deadline Quickly Approaching
  If you're looking for a great summer project for your kids, a neighborhood group or youth organization, the MoonBots Challenge is one you should examine closely.�� The challenge encourages teams of three to five youths to explore space, robotics and science through an exciting STEM-based program. The competition consists of two phases; in the first ...
  06.08.11

• Peanutweeter Brings Peanuts, Twitter Together With Hilarious Results
  Pairing the sharp observations of Twitter users with Charles Schulz's beloved comic strip characters makes for wicked humor.
  06.08.11

• New Heavy Elements Need Geeky Names
  The journey to gain official status can be a long trip. Take Elements 114 and 116, for example. First created in a lab a dozen years ago, the isotopes were the focus of a few collaborative teams of scientists working to prove their existence back in 2004. After three years of review, a committee of ...
  06.08.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Wednesday, June 8th
  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? ...
  06.08.11

• GeekDad, Underwire Team Up for Exclusive First Look at Flashpoint: Emperor Aquaman
  DC Comics will release Flashpoint: Emperor Aquaman #1 on June 8, but Wired.com brings you an exclusive sneak peek to "wet" your whistle and help "tide" you over. GeekDad has teamed with Underwire, another of Wired's entertainment blogs, to "hook" you up with the first four pages. Okay, now that I have all of those fishy ...
  06.07.11

• Geekly Reader: Time for Kids Big Book of How
  In a followup to their Big Book of Why, Time for Kids has published the Big Book of How, a collection of 501 facts on diverse subjects like animals, sports, buildings, and emergency preparedness (though nothing about zombies, I'm afraid). With 67 chapters and 22 "How To" sections, the book is a combination of interesting ...
  06.07.11