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Build Your Kitchen With LEGO

And really, why not? Love this kitchen island, clad entirely in LEGO.
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Dork Tower Friday

Read all the Dork Towers that have run on GeekDad.
Find the Dork Tower archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower Website. Continue reading

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8 Things Parents Should Know About How to Train Your Dragon 3D

What better way to spend the weekend than soaring with dragons and sailing with Vikings? How to Train Your Dragon 3D combines the two for a fantastic adventure about a scrawny Viking’s coming-of-age and his friendship with his village’s mortal enemy: a fearsome dragon he improbably wounds in battle and then nurses back to health.
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PAX East is Almost Here! Do You Know Where Your GeekDads Are?

Session Friday 7:00 Wyvern Theatre (somewhere in the Hynes Convention Center)
“How young is too young for The Hobbit? What should my kids’ first LEGO set be? How can I control my disgust if my child tells me he likes Jar Jar and the Ewoks? When should I buy my kids their first […] Continue reading

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Dork Tower Wednesday

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Great Geek Debates: Legend versus Labyrinth

Ahh, the eighties! A formative time for many of us GeekDads, and a time of energetic, if not always excellent, experimentation when it came to fantasy and science fiction in film. Take for example the topics of our current GGD: two mid-eighties U.S./U.K. fantasy films about young women coming-of-age through quests resulting grave, impulsive mistakes […] Continue reading

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Dork Tower Monday

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Mythbusters Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage Interviewed by Kevin Kelly

Saw this tweeted on Saturday and had to share it: our favorite Mythbusters Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage being interviewed by Wired co-founder and legacy GeekDad Kevin Kelly for the Commonwealth Club of California. Enjoy! Continue reading

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Dork Tower Friday

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The iPhone of Pinewood Derby Cars

GeekDad reader and true geeky dad Jason Beck sent along this awesome picture of the pinewood derby car his son Carter and he made for a race at their Cub Scouts troupe pack. I bet that car handles like a dream, but occasionally drops calls.
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