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About Ken

Ken is a husband and father from the San Francisco Bay Area, where he works as a civil engineer. He also wrote the NYT bestselling book "Geek Dad: Awesomely Geeky Projects for Dads and Kids to Share." Follow @fitzwillie on Twitter.

Famous Images Recreated Using Star Wars Figures

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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for July 12

Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning … Continue reading

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XKCD reveals your visual perception quirks

XKCD reveals your visual perception quirks

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Dork Tower Wednesday

Dork Tower #674 by John Kovalic 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.

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Share It Maybe by Cookie Monster

Carly Rae Jepsen’s single ‘Call Me Maybe’ is a huge pop hit. However, we find the Cookie Monster version from the folks at Sesame Street to be more… palatable, for obvious reasons.

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Important Uses for Duct Tape #47: Defeating Ninja Robbers

Duct Tape Hustle is a fun video about the importance of duct tape in a dramatic situation. It also gets bonus points for having been filmed in our hometown hardware store, and the fact that the one person who dies … Continue reading

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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for July 11

Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning … Continue reading

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New telescope can spot planets orbiting stars outside our solar system

http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/10/3149862/project-1640-telescope-detect-planets

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Cookie Monster Improves Upon “Call Me Maybe”

http://www.nerdist.com/2012/07/cookie-monster-improves-upon-call-me-maybe/

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LEGO Rolls-Royce Jet Engine

http://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/10/lego-rolls-royce-jet-engine/

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