Author Archives: Ken-Denmead
10 Things Parents Should Know About James Cameron’s Avatar
This movie is making an impact at the box office and all over the internet. The advances in film-making technology are impressive, and the question as to whether Mr. Cameron could follow up Titanic with another truly significant film seems to have been answered. But what about the children?! Is this a movie to take […] Continue reading
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Best of the Geek Decade – Music
And last, but not least, the tunes our kids like – wonderfully out of the mainstream, and very geeky!
Best Music:
They Might Be Giants (Brian & Brian’s Son, Jenny’s entire family) Yes, they’ve been around for years. But their kid stuff is relatively new. And now the kids understand when you chant “Particle man, particle man” […] Continue reading
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Dork Tower Monday
Time for our first proper thrice-weekly dose of Dork!
You can find the Dork Tower archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower Website.
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Tagged Armchair Geek, Dork Tower, John Kovalic, Munchkin, webcomic
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GeekDad Live From the Wired Holiday Store in NYC!
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GeekDad Day at the Wired Holiday Store This Saturday
If you haven’t heard the word via Twitter or elsewhere, here’s the official plug: GeekDad has been invited to curate three “GeekDad Days” at the Wired Holiday Store in New York this year, and the LAST one is this coming Saturday from 1:00pm to 2:30pm local time. We’ll be doing build challenges with LEGO bricks, […] Continue reading
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It’s Always Dorkest Before the Dawn: Dork Tower Comes to GeekDad!
It still amazes me when cool stuff like this happens to us, but I’m not one to look a gift-muskrat in the mouth. Starting Monday, Dec. 21, GeekDad will be happy (nay, ecstatic!) to start presenting the thrice-weekly geeky comic joy that is Dork Tower, by John Kovalic.
If you know of Dork Tower, then you’re […] Continue reading
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Tagged Apples to Apples, Armchair Geek, Comics, Dork Tower, John Kovalic, Munchkin, Web Comics
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Our Future Robot Overlords Hone Their Skills at the 2009 Combots Cup
It’s been a while since robot-combat graced the TV airwaves, but it’s still alive and attracting geeks from all over with a bloodthirsty gleam in their eyes. And if you’d like to witness a bit of robo-carnage yourself, you’re in luck. Saturday and Sunday, December 19-20, the 2009 Combots Cup happens at the San Mateo […] Continue reading
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The GeekDads Episode #57: She Didn’t Take the Paris Hilton Roles
The GeekDads talk with John Kovalic, creator of Dork Tower and illustrator of Munchkin and Apples to Apples, and make a SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. Enjoy!
GeekDad.com is the parenting blog at Wired.com, edited by Ken Denmead, Matt Blum and Chris Anderson. It is a community of like-minded geeky parents writing about our experiences raising […] Continue reading
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TrueHDR Brings High Dynamic Range Photography to Your iPhone
As phone cams go, the iPhone’s is nothing special. It’s not particularly worse than the rest of the crowd (even other phones with higher pixel counts and flashes don’t necessarily get better images), but no one expects to get any really artistic results out of it either. One of the biggest drawbacks of such a […] Continue reading
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GeekDad Day at the Wired Holiday Store FTW!
If you’d been following my tweets this weekend, you might have caught on that I was traveling back to New York for something special: the first GeekDad Day at the Wired Holiday Store. With the gracious support of our friends at LEGO, and the awesome help of Lee Magpili and his amazing Mindstorms builds, it […] Continue reading
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Tagged Adafruit, Hacking the Holidays, Lego, LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0, New York, Projects and Activities, Wired, Wired Holiday Store
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