A new Kinect Sports 2 Basketball activity was unveiled today as part of Microsoft’s $1M sponsorship of the Right to Play charity. The sponsorship will provide funds and technology for the charity’s 2012 program. Right to Play is a worldwide …
Continue ReadingI hate New Year’s resolutions. Especially the part where the internet is flooded with copycat articles full of tips, tricks, top-ten lists, and celebrity declarations. The changing of the calendar doesn’t make the date special, and broadcasting their intent doesn’t necessarily help people achieve personal goals. Every year at this time, I compulsively dodge those […]
Continue ReadingPurchase this 10″ x 26″ letterpress poster and 100% of the profits will be donated to Acumen Fund’s mission to end worldwide poverty. Must order by December 17th, no delivery until after the holidays.
Continue ReadingWhat do you do when your husband comes to you and says that he wants to grow a beard? I cringed. My husband has never been the type of guy to have facial hair of any kind. When he explained to me that it was a campaign to raise fund for breast cancer research, my […]
Continue ReadingLiving simply is important to me. I also love to give gifts. I reconcile this by giving ethical presents whenever possible. You know what I mean, purchases that help out a worthy organization. You can often buy such gifts at your local museum, house of worship, or any non-profit knowing that a portion of […]
Continue ReadingStriiv is a nifty little device. To call it simply a pedometer would be doing it a disservice because there’s all sorts of things going on behind its little touch screen. I’ve been using it daily since I was sent one to review a few weeks ago. Out of the box (and even while […]
Continue ReadingA few days ago, I had the distinct privilege of competing in the only race I have ever been in, not counting elementary school field days. Every year, my town of Shreveport, Louisiana has two different charity events: Run with the Nuns, a motorcycle rally that benefits children’s health programs in our community, and […]
Continue ReadingThe show kicks off with an interview with Amber Love about Women of Wonder Day, an annual auction and in-store event where you can bid on beautiful art and collectibles in support of domestic violence charity programs. Then Nicole is joined once again by GeekMom Cathe Post to talk about her weekend with her husband and daughter at the […]
Continue ReadingI grew up within miles of an Ikea, so moving to Maine was a bit of a shock. No flatpack furniture, no cheap but stylish sofa, no awesome kids section, no meatballs! When I had my son back in 2009, a college friend who shared my love of Swedish design sent him one of his first […]
Continue ReadingMy two girls are turning one of their bedrooms into a restaurant. There is a pink tea cart parked in front of the door with a sign that reads “Please Wait. Not Open.” and I can hear the clinking of their Beatrix Potter tea set. I’ve been given a lovely appetizer tray of Wheat Thins […]
Continue ReadingSome of my favorite Star Wars collectibles are the ones I snapped up in Tokyo (like this banner shown above) So, it’s no big surprise to see the Japanese celebrating the release of the films on Blu-Ray by making the subway handrails look like light sabers… By the way, Japan can still use help. If […]
Continue ReadingLike board games? How about getting board games into the hands of needy kids? Tasty Minstrel Games, a board game publisher in Tucson, Arizona, is sponsoring a toy drive for Toys for Tots. While I haven’t yet gotten to play …
Continue Reading2007: the year of the very first Nerdapalooza. Though the event was conceived by Californian John “Hex” Carter, the first festival conducted under the Nerdapalooza banner was coordinated on the far corner of the country by musical comedian Rob Tobias. …
Continue ReadingTo celebrate their 100th anniversary, The Company Store, known to me and many others as a good place to buy sheets, is holding a design contest for kids to create a brand new comforter design. The winning design will be …
Continue ReadingAidan Reed is five years old. More than anything, he loves monsters. Dressing up as monsters, playing with monster toys and especially drawing monsters. Then in September a real-life monster reared its ugly head and Aidan was diagnosed with acute …
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Continue ReadingAfter the trick or treating is over, the decorations stored, and the costumes have been put away, we are left with one thing: tons of candy. We limit our geekette’s candy to one to two pieces a day, if that. The best thing is, she kind of self-limits. We have the candy sitting out in a plastic […]
Continue ReadingWizards of the Coast recently announced a pledge to donate up to $22,000 to Penny Arcade’s Child’s Play organization in honor of the Magic 2011 launch. The Child’s Play organization, which provides game materials to children in hospitals, is made …
Continue ReadingIt will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with their writing that Wil Wheaton and John Scalzi are awesome, weird, and awesomely weird people. As if more evidence of this was needed, they have now come up with what …
Continue ReadingAbout a year ago I stumbled across something called An Awesome Book by Dallas Clayton. I’ll get right to the point: it is, in fact awesome. I liked it enough to buy a copy myself, and recently I wrote to …
Continue ReadingEveryone’s favorite webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language is coming out for the ever-reliable dead-tree platform tomorrow. In other words, we’re finally getting our xkcd book. The book releases tomorrow, but not in bookstores; it’s only sold online. If …
Continue ReadingOn Sunday the wife and I packed up the eldest geeklet and headed into Dallas for a fund raiser for Equality Now. Can’t Stop The Serenity of North Texas was sponsoring a Women’s showcase featuring 5 different acts. We couldn’t …
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