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Our name may be “GeekDad,” but very little of our content is dad-specific, and we do in fact count four geek moms among our Core […] Continue reading →

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I had the luck this weekend of meeting Camille Verboort, curator of the Three-Minute Picture Show, an annual event where amateur filmmakers take a month to put together the best 180 seconds of drama/comedy/action or whatever they’ve got on “film” and then show it off to like-minded individuals at a gala, black-tie event. Think of […] Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

The GeekDads talk about the iPhone 4 launch, unicorn meat and sending balloons into space. 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 […] Continue reading →

It’s been a while since we did a proper YLOKWW post, and this isn’t really going to be one. I am however going to admit something slightly geeky that may also get me a “bad dad” award somewhere: by the time my kids were in 3rd and 5th grades (respectively), they’d each seen Jaws at […] Continue reading →

As we posted yesterday, teacher Todd Stowe was running a test launch of his balloon-and-camera rig in the morning to try out some new features. Looks like it worked!
The videos kinda stank but the SPOT transmitter was dead-on. The buzzer was better than that. We could hear it from a quarter-mile away. And best of […] Continue reading →

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 →

We told you about teacher Todd Stowe’s previous project, working with his students to launch a camera into near orbit via weather balloon. Well, he’s about to do it again (on his own, as a test run), and this time we can all follow along:
There’s going to be a SPOT Personal Tracker in the capsule […] Continue reading →