Author Archives: Kens-GeekDad-Posts

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. Continue reading →

This post is a continuation of my series of profiles for teams competing in the MoonBots educational competition. In brief, MoonBots challenges teams of students (aged 9-18, with adult ‘team captains’) to essentially mimic the requirements of the $30,000,000 Google Lunar X PRIZE using free CAD software like LEGO Digital Designer and Google SketchUp […] Continue reading →

The GeekDads talk about Comic-Con, Maker Faire Detroit and Matt’s newfound sex-symbol status. 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 our kids in the digital age, and about our obsessions with […] Continue reading →

The Avengers are coming this Fall! But it’s not the Joss Whedon live-action movie. This time we have the new animated Avengers series geared a little more for the kids. Continue reading →

If you follow friend-of-GeekDad and all around most excellent geek Wil Wheaton on Twitter, you’ll know that earlier this week he was bemoaning the fact that he would be turning 38 today. He tweeted “…it feels much, much older than 37.” Especially because his age was no longer a prime number.
His Twitter fans ponied up […] Continue reading →

Many amazing things dropped at SDCC this year, and we’re still sifting through the piles of awesome to see what we missed as we watched the flurry of tweets. And one thing that has totally floored us a couple days later is this trailer for the upcoming DC Universe MMO. We heard the reports about cool voice casting being involved, but if this trailer is any indication of the tone and action that the game will carry, then count us in. Watch this, and then we dare you to disagree (which of course some of you will likely do, but that won’t dampen our excitement!). Continue reading →

Our good friend (and former contributor) Bruce Stewart passed on a heads-up about the really cool kid-maker video podcast Make is running this summer with Sylvia and her maker dad, TechNinja. The first video in the series is about rockets (can’t beat that!) and looks to be a great way to get your kids up and creating this summer. Continue reading →

GeekDads Dave Banks and Jonathan Liu are at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend, and tweeting up a storm. We’ll be collecting their 140-character reports (with pictures) on a semi-regular basis so you can follow the fun! Continue reading →

The GeekDads talk about Antennagate, the 41st anniversary of the moon landing, and chat with special guest John Annealio of the Functional Nerds podcast. 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 →

This week the 2010 version of Comic-Con kicks off in San Diego, and the annual collective nerdgasm of movie/TV/videogame news gets us hyped up better than a Mountain Dew, Jolt, Red Bull and triple cappuccino cocktail.
Every year, there’s blah news, there’s good news, and then there’s knock-our-geeky-socks-off news. While we aren’t holding our collective breath […] Continue reading →