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Parents–especially geeky parents–love taking pictures of their kids. Gigabytes of pictures. Now we’d like you to share your memories with the community by uploading photos of your family participating in DIY projects, games, and other geeky activities.
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A bloated, time-shifted Puss in Boots, viewable in the clip above, and immersive 3-D rounds out Shrek Forever After’s promise. Which is good, because the Dreamworks franchise has lost much of that promise. [This is a guest post by Scott Thill.]
Billed as the franchise’s final chapter, Shrek Forever After is bound to rake in millions, […] 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 →

As you read above, today’s official Dork Tower could be considered slightly NSFW because it uses some very specific imagery to point out the absurdity of an ad campaign many geeks may be familiar with. We think it’s hilarious, but then we’re geeks.
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RoboGames is this weekend in San Mateo, CA and over the last two weeks we’ve been holding a giveaway for some cool items connected to the event. Finally, we’ve selected the winners (using random.org to pick numerically from the comments).
Winners of the RoboGames Trading Cards (1 Pack per Winner)
4th- “GirlsAreGeeks”
4th- “radicalx”
4th- “kentkb”
4th- ”brianosaurusrex”
4th- ”ilblissli”
Winner of the 4 […] 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 →

RoboGames is the “World’s Largest Robot Competition” and an annual exposition of robotic art and mayhem here in the Bay Area, featuring ten different combat and automation challenges in dozens of different weight and design classes. You’ll see everything from flyweight sumo-bots to the killer 340lb-class heavyweight combat units tearing into each other for your […] Continue reading →

It seems to be the common conception that young Americans don’t value their privacy, and information about themselves, in the same way or as much as older Americans do. However, as I’ve noted before on this very blog, the studies simply don’t bear out this stereotype. A new study, entitled “How Different are Young Adults […] 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 →

Parents–especially geeky parents–love taking pictures of their kids. Gigabytes of pictures. Now we’d like you to share your memories with the community by uploading photos of your family participating in DIY projects, games, and other geeky activities.
Submit a picture* of your family doing something together–preferably something geeky! Perhaps it can be building something together, or […] Continue reading →