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• Piece Me Puzzles iOS App: Art for Kids
  I recently had the chance to try out two apps from Fashionbuddha, in their new Piece Me Puzzle line of apps. The first is Piece Me Birds and the second is Piece Me Circus, and each features seven simple puzzles. One thing that sets these apart from other puzzle apps I've seen is the focus ...
  10.20.11

• Create Your Own Member of the Lego Hero Recon Team
  Lego has a lot to offer kids and grown-ups in the put-stuff-together genre of toys. Kits, models, playsets, and even interchangeable minifig parts have wide appeal. For kids who like playing with things like action figures, however, there is a relatively new toy available: The Lego Hero Recon Team. The Lego Hero Recon Team is a ...
  10.20.11

• Wordstock Interview: Ryan Alexander-Tanner
  I came across Ryan Alexander-Tanner at Wordstock, where he had copies of his book To Teach: The Journey, in Comics. It's one that I haven't read myself, but had heard of, so I stopped to chat with him. Alexander-Tanner works with kids and comics, leading comics-making workshops and using comics to teach writing and literacy. GeekDad: ...
  10.20.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Thursday, Oct. 20 by Joe Jonas
  Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
  10.20.11

• Gallery: Dark Lord Conquers Earth in Star Wars: The Complete Vader
  How strong is Darth Vader's grip on humanity? A new book charts the Dark Lord's utter domination of Earth's imagination, showing off rarely seen variations on George Lucas' antihero, from international movie posters to an Oklahoma butter sculpture. Plus: Enter to win a copy of The Complete Vader.
  10.19.11

• Why Google Doesn't (and Shouldn't) Care About Tablets Yet
  Why isn't Google racing to get out ahead of the tablet market, pushing the envelope on pricing and capabilities, and generally looking to disrupt the whole show?
  10.19.11

• Dork Tower Wednesday
  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.
  10.19.11

• Tough and Lovely: The Tuff-Luv In-Genius Case for iPhone 4S
  After damaging the screens of my trusty iPod Touch and my iPhone within the span of a single week, I began to realize that I may be the kind of user who requires a bit more coverage from a device case. Sure, the shells I had in place on both units did a fine job ...
  10.19.11

• GeekDad Batman: Arkham City Swag Review
  October 18 has finally hit; and you undoubtedly have in your grubby little gamer mitts your very own copy of Batman: Arkham City. It's the game you've been dreaming of since before you even finished the first Rocksteady and Warner Brothers Batman masterpiece. According to professional forecasting algorithms, the midnight release of the game was ...
  10.19.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Wednesday, Oct. 19
  Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
  10.19.11

• With He Thinks He's People, Rob Crow Returns to Smart Indie Pop
  The founder of Pinback, Goblin Cock and other rock bands cranks out a new solo album filled with pop-culture apocrypha. Crow chats about his latest record and his varied responses to the latest geek entertainment offerings, from DC Comics "New 52" to arty TV show American Horror Story.
  10.18.11

• Winged Robot Is Time Machine to Origins of Flight
  A new study provides some fresh data for what primitive wings were used for before bird ancestors could fly — and not from fossils, but from a winged robot.
  10.18.11

• The Looney Tunes Show Comes to DVD
  Unlike a lot of other parents and friends I've talked to, I am not enraged by the very existence of new Warner Bros. Animation property The Looney Tunes Show. I get it; it's an animated sitcom. It's The Odd Couple, except with Bugs and Daffy in the all-important dual roles of best friends and constant ...
  10.18.11

• Unleash Your Creativity With The Lego Ideas Book
  There seems to be an involuntary reaction when you are introduced to a pile of Lego bricks. You can't help but pick them up and start clicking them together; this tactile experience is only enhanced by the creativity that you involuntarily show when building with bricks. Ask six people to build a simple car or ...
  10.18.11

• Free Your Toys and Join #OccupyLegoLand
  As the #OccupyWallStreet protests spread around the globe this weekend, intensifying in some places into open conflict with authorities, it was inevitable that the movement would strike at the heart of GeekDad's cultural landscape: LEGO. #OccupyLegoLand is an (affectionate) parody page that gives voice to LEGO minifigs, working in horribly exploitative conditions, even as billions of ...
  10.18.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Tuesday, Oct. 18
  Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
  10.18.11

• Dork Tower Monday
  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.
  10.17.11

• GeekDad Exclusive: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Giveaways
  Disney is releasing Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides on Blu-ray 3D & Blu-ray Hi-Def Combo Pack tomorrow (Tuesday 10/18). This fourth installment of the Pirates series follows Jack Sparrow and Barbossa as they embark on a quest to find the elusive fountain of youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are ...
  10.17.11

• GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: Presto Chango Geek to Maverick
  In the movie Top Gun, Maverick is the Aristotelian ideal of cool -- the non-thinking, seat-of-his-pants antithesis of everything geek. But did you know that all it takes is basic physics to transform one into the other? Use basic physics formulas to transform: Please show your steps, and don't get your tighty-whiteys in a bind about capital ...
  10.17.11

• GeekDad Gadgets: Mechatars - The Online and Offline Combat Robots
  Do you or your kids like video games? How about robots - robots that are robotic monsters from another dimension? Of course you do! That is why you read GeekDad! Well, let me tell you about Mechatars. Mechatars, by iloveRobots, combine the best of online gaming and remote controlled robotic toys. Cloud computing technology allows the ...
  10.17.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Mon., Oct. 17
  Google's daily brainteaser tests your search skills.
  10.17.11

• Wordstock Interview: Shannon Wheeler
  Shannon Wheeler is an incredibly prolific cartoonist. He's probably best known for his underground comic Too Much Coffee Man, but he has also drawn comics for the New Yorker and has several other books that have come out recently. He won an Eisner Award this year for his comics collection I Thought You Would Be ...
  10.16.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Sun., Oct. 16
  A daily brainteaser that will put your search skills to the test!
  10.16.11

• The 15 Geekiest Episodes of PBS's Arthur (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
  Our household has always had a kind of special connection with PBS' Arthur, because it's one of the first kids' shows I remember specifically sitting down to watch with my daughter. The show debuted in September 1996, so it's almost the same age as my daughter herself ¿ although she's in high school now, while ...
  10.15.11

• GeekDad Gadgets: Rover App-Controlled Spy Tank
  "Q" in A View to a Kill had a remote control spy tank that could broadcast video and sound back to him. The unit was about as big as a canister vacuum cleaner and needed a van full of equipment to control it. In 1985, when the movie was released, it probably would have cost ...
  10.15.11

• Wordstock Interview: Vera Brosgol
  Last weekend at Wordstock, I sat in on a panel with Jonathan Hill and Vera Brosgol, both Portland-based cartoonists who have published books with First Second Books this past year. They both shared a bit about their process and read a little from their books. Since I'd just read Anya's Ghost myself, I decided to ...
  10.15.11

• GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution: Trick or Treater's Dilemma
  This week's puzzle continued my Halloween theme by pitting a Trick or Treater named Eddie against his neighborhood. Before I get to the winner I will give the solution. Here is the puzzle as it was presented last week: Puzzle: Find the most efficient route for Eddie to take to hit all the houses and the distance ...
  10.15.11