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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 →

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 →

With Wondercon 2010 in our sights, we thought it would be fun to revisit the awesomeness that was our chance to interview Bruce Timm, the mastermind behind the last two decades of great animated DC superheroes at last year’s ‘con. Probably the best part of this interview is learning that he’s perfectly happy continuing […] Continue reading →

Everyone always dreams of getting super powers and using them in the eternal fight for good (or, in some cases, fame and fortune). But what if it wasn’t about the BIG issues? What if you could just use a super power to help in day-to-day life?
Now, everyone will jump to powers such as being bullet-proof […] Continue reading →

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 →

The GeekDads talk about Portal 2 buzz, and the new OK Go video. 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 secret ingredient for cool kid’s projects is a low-temp glue gun. It will glue almost anything instantly, including fabric (great for zany fashions or costumes), styrofoam, cardboard, and wood. It’s the “instant” part that really appeals to kids, who otherwise lose interest in projects while glue dries.
[This post by Kevin Kelley originally ran in […] Continue reading →

MONOCHRON – open source retro clock from adafruit industries on Vimeo.
They call it something else (for understandable reasons), but it still satisfies our grumpy old geek rant: “When we were kids, video games had two lines and a dot, and we LIKED IT THAT WAY!”
Hardware hacker “Ladyada” has released an open source retro arcade style […] Continue reading →

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 →

As you might have seen publicized on Thursday, Natania Barron and I did indeed have the honor of speaking to the Philadelphia Alumni Writer’s House at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania last night. The crowd of students and staff were wonderful, with many great questions, and even a few laughs! We livestreamed and […] Continue reading →