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Don’t Move. They Can’t See You if You Don’t Move (GeekDad POTD)
Image by GeekDad’s own JRBooth, and uploaded to the GeekDad Flickr Group.
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Put a Monolith on the Moon? Best. Idea. EVER.
Over on his Ironic Sans blog, David Friedman has posed the ultimate idea for a Kickstarter (microfunding) project: putting a replica of the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey on the moon. He’s thinking it’ll take $500,000,000, and wants 5 million geeks to donate $100 each. I think the industrious GeekDad community could design that […] Continue reading
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Tape Your Kids in Their Rooms to Keep Them in at Bedtime
Great tactic to try with kids who keep popping out of their rooms at bedtime. Like all such things, it takes a steely resolve by you, the parent, to pull off, but setting visible limits like this makes a lot of sense. I wonder if using glow-in-the-dark tape would help or hurt the process?
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Awesome Crashed AT-AT Made of Snow
Obviously after Luke got after it with the snow-speeder. Reddit, found via Nerdapproved Continue reading
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Teaching Droids to Survive the Mall
Interesting Cal-Tech research based on the idea that robots and androids will never gain general acceptance until they can navigate crowds in the same intuitive, interactive way people do. Continue reading
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I Said Now I’ve Got My Magic Bus (GeekDad POTD)
Who needs a kit? Improvised LEGO vehicles are the best!
Image by Flickr user korymatu, as added to the GeekDad Flickr Group.
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Doctor to Marry His Own Daughter, Create Rift in Time and Space
BBC America has announced that David Tennant is engaged to Georgia Moffett. Tennant very popularly played the 10th incarnation of The Doctor on BBC’s long-running Doctor Who. Moffett played his daughter (actually a quasi-clone based on his DNA) in one episode during his tenure. As if that wasn’t strange enough, Moffett is also the real-life […] Continue reading
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Dark Helmet Wants You (GeekDad POTD)
I find your lack of faith disturbing. May the schwartz be with you!
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Now He’s a Jedi – DIY Lightsaber Build
Very cool home-built lightsaber with lights, sounds and more (sorry, no plasma). Of course, we don’t all have metal lathes handy, so your ability to copy may vary.
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Classic Board Games as Oil Paintings
Artist Tim Liddy paints photo-realistic reproductions of the covers of classic, play-worn board game boxes.
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