Doctor Who and the Dalek Teaches Players to Program
The BBC have just announce a new Doctor and the Dalek game that aims to teach players basic programming skills.
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10 Things Sci-fi Promised Us That DID Happen in 2013 (or Thereabout)
Last week I published a list of top 10 things science fiction promised us that didn’t happen in 2013. So, lest you think I’m completely negative, let’s take a look at a few things that did happen in 2013…
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Web Independence Day: 20 Years Ago Today, The World Wide Web Goes Public
Twenty years ago today, without a lot of pomp and circumstance, a world-changing event occurred. It was one of those events where not even the people responsible for it could have predicted its long-ranging effects, one of which is that you’re reading this website.
Continue ReadingInkd Gives Webcomics Their Own Platform
Having noticed a gap in tools for publishing and organizing the many webcomics available on the Internet, Benedict Jones and Justin Salsburey are looking for help to launch Inkd, a digital version of the comics section of a newspaper. This …
Continue ReadingWebkinz Provide a Safe Online World for Kids to Explore
Let me tell you a little bit about my son. He’s obsessed with automobiles. My wife, Natania, wrote about her life with cars back when our kid was three, and his obsession with things that go vroom hasn’t abated a bit …
Continue ReadingTake the CDC Flu App Challenge! (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
Take the CDC Flu App Challenge The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC to their close friends) is looking for a few good apps, and they want you to make them. The CDC Flu App Challenge is open …
Continue ReadingThe Simple Path to Fun Family Photo Keepsakes
Digital cameras have made it too easy to capture any moment in a family’s day-to-day life. The trouble is organizing the really good shots into something memorable. Shutterfly aims to help that with their Simple Path. Shutterfly has been our …
Continue ReadingThe Curious Rise of Rebecca Mayes
My posts are usually objective, mildly authoritative and thoroughly third person. Here though, I want to share something more personal – to track one particular journalism journey I’ve had the past year that started with an unusual idea and resulted …
Continue ReadingYe Olde Map Maker is a Gamemaster’s Best Friend
Last Friday I needed to whip up some quick dungeon maps for my Saturday night Dungeons and Dragons game. I was planning on bringing my players into the Shadowfell for the first time and their first stop through the portal …
Continue ReadingSam Loyd: Classic Puzzles and Riddles
Have you seen this puzzle that’s been making its way around the net lately? Count the number of men, wait for them to shift, and then count them again. Confused? Or did you spot the secret? As it turns out, …
Continue ReadingOnline Museums, From Interesting to Unique to Freakishly Strange
There are many great museums in the world, but sadly most people will only ever get to visit a fraction of them. Fortunately, a lot of them have an excellent online presence—along with a huge number of less-great museums, many …
Continue ReadingIt’s Earth Day Every Day at EPA Web Site For Kids
What better way to celebrate Earth Day than to get your kids involved. A wide range of activities have been planned specifically for today or this week, but what about ongoing environmental awareness and programs? The EPA Student Center helps to fill that role. The EPA Student Center is a web portal run by the […]
Continue ReadingMicrosoft Encarta to End This Year – Are You Going to Miss It?
Microsoft Encarta, the encyclopedia-on-a-disc (and later website), is going away in October of this year. In many ways, it was like training wheels for kids learning how to research topics on their computer, but in recent years has becoming increasingly pointless with the depth and (relative) accuracy of Wikipedia, and even just googling topics with […]
Continue ReadingAll Hail Our New Secretary of Geek Affairs, Once More!
(This is a repost of Ken Denmead’s article of March 20, with new graphics and updated links.) If you’ve been following the blog lately, you’ll know there’s been a tournament going on over at the website of Paul & Storm, geeky musicians (you can see them in many a J-Co concert video). Actually, it’s more […]
Continue Reading“The Streamy Awards” Want Your Vote – But There Is a Problem
The first annual "Streamy Awards" are going to be presented on March 28, 2009 in Los Angeles, and the award show sponsors are asking for your votes. "The Streamys" have been created to honor outstanding achievement in shows that were originally produced for broadband distribution. The problem I am having is that the nominated episodes […]
Continue ReadingAll Hail Our New Secretary of Geek Affairs
If you’ve been following the blog lately, you’ll know there’s been a tournament going on over at the website of Paul & Storm, geeky musicians (you can see them in many a J-Co concert video). Actually, it’s more of an election, really, to determine the Secretary of Geek Affairs – the person responsible for representing […]
Continue Reading“Hello, I’m a Marvel… and I’m a DC” (Wolverine vs. Rorschach)
The folks over at ItsJustSomeRandomGuy have posted some great parodies of the "I’m a Mac/I’m a PC" Ads. (I am a sucker for action figure videos!) The one is a especially chocked full o’ hilarious. Click the link or watch the embedded video: Via io9
Continue ReadingGeekDad is Part of the Web 2.0 Alphabet
"G" is for GeekDad, and that’s good enough for me. And for Abby Kirigin, who has very kindly included GeekDad as part of her Alphabettr project, a directory of cool people and sites. Thanks Abby!
Continue ReadingWe’re Going to Need a Bigger Website
Push the button. Push it again. Keep pushing, as many times as you like. Now go here to get it for yourself. (found on Twitter via @Rsquared)
Continue ReadingTRON and Depeche Mode Mashup
Many fan created mashups are bad. This one is not. The perfect blend of 80′s sounding Synth-Pop and neon-glowy Disneyness. TRON would have been a much better experience had it had a Depeche Mode soundtrack. Enjoy! YouTube via io9
Continue ReadingThe Family That Twitters Together, Stays Together
Image via Wikipedia This is a guest post by Alex Jarvis, who writes for us from the POV of the "son of a geek." As of this writing, I am the tender age of twenty, and still living under the same roof that I grew up in – a medium sized suburban home with my […]
Continue ReadingIs Your Family Ready For An Emergency or Natural Disaster?
As recent winter storms here in Ontario have once again illustrated, it’s always a good idea to be prepared for an emergency. We’re big on this concept at Wired, having put out a few emergency guides like How To Survive a Power Blackout and The Smarter Emergency Kit. But, I figure the US Department of […]
Continue ReadingGeekDad Effect? The Situation to be Released as Online Graphic Novel
Many GeekDad readers likely remember author Jeff VanderMeer; we’ve profiled Jeff and some of his work in previous posts. The pirate anthology Fast Ships, Black Sails, edited by Jeff and his wife Ann was featured during Pirate Week, 2008. And in March of 2008, GeekDad offered an exclusive download of Jeff’s novelette, The Situation. You […]
Continue ReadingFelicia Day Tells Us Who the Geeks are Following on Twitter
Geek-favorite actress Felicia Day (she of Dr. Horrible and The Guild fame), posted a handy starter-list of the neat people on Twitter whom geeks are likely to be interested in following. Included are such notables as actor John Lithgow, author Diane Duane, and comics creator Brian Bendis. I’m sure her list will grow, just from […]
Continue ReadingA Tale of Two Online Retailers – UPDATED
Image via CrunchBase If you have read the reports, you know that the 2008 Holiday season was less than stellar for retailers with the one exception being those online. I helped this year with gifts from a couple of different websites. We had issues with each site, but how did the online retailers handle the […]
Continue ReadingGeek Madness: Vote for the Secretary of Geek Affairs
Geeky musicians Paul and Storm have created what might be the ultimate showdown of ultimate geek destiny: …as the first geek President, Barack Obama would do well to reward this important and influential constituency by creating a new cabinet post: the Secretary of Geek Affairs. And it’s up to YOU (the collective you, that is) […]
Continue ReadingDisney Survey Shows Technology Trends For Kids
Disney conducted a recent survey of 11,500 parents about their kids’ technology habits, which provided some interesting results: because children are being exposed to technology at younger ages, it seems some parents are struggling to keep up. The parents are unsure what gadgets are age appropriate and confused about how to keep their kids safe […]
Continue ReadingNational Geographic Gets Into Gaming In A Big Way
National Geographic’s web site has always been an excellent resource for kids, packed with videos, online articles, free games and activities. Taking their brand to the next level, National Geographic recently announced a move into the world of commercial video games. This isn’t a tentative, toe in the water kind of deal. National Geographic is […]
Continue ReadingThe Best of MAKE This Week
Maker Faire Austin 2008 – Kids Stuff!http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/11/maker_faire_austin_2008_k.htmlMaker Faire is fun for the entire family. There are plenty of things to make and hands-on activities for all ages. Take a look at some of the highlights and make plans to attend the next Maker Faire. Gifts for "Music Makers"http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/11/music_makers_gift_guide.htmlMusicians know how important it is to add […]
Continue ReadingThingiverse.com Launches A Library of Printable Objects
Just like Flickr is a resource of Community Commons artwork, Thingiverse — a new website by NYCR cats Bre Pettis and Zach "Hoeken" Smith — aims to become the resource for individuals looking for objects to create with their RepRap fabricators, CNC routers or laser cutters. While thinly populated with "things" thus far, early contributions […]
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