Sorry! After careful consideration, we’ve decided to remove this post from GeekDad in deference to Bill Watterson’s well-established desire not to permit merchandise based on his work.
Star Wars + Calvin and Hobbes = Best. T-Shirt. Ever.
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By Matt Blum
- August 21, 2010 |
- 10:42 am |
- Categories: Everything Else
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As If Salmonella Wasn’t Scary Enough — Dalek Eggs!
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By Dave Giancaspro
- August 21, 2010 |
- 10:00 am |
- Categories: Armchair Geek, Projects and Activities
Image Courtesy of Flickr User PungoM
Kuriositas, the person behind this nice piece of work, has posted some directions for making your own egg Dalek. Check the process at The Kuriositas blog. If you make your own child of Davros remember to post it to The GeekDad Flickr Pool
Next will be the bacon Tardis … which I’m sure will be a stop on Matt Blum’s Great Bacon Odyssey
Awful Library Books Are Awfully Entertaining
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By Jonathan Liu
- August 21, 2010 |
- 9:30 am |
- Categories: The Internet
Three words you probably don't want to hear together.
Ah, the 1970s.
A simpler time, when kids played outdoors and parents weren’t burdened with concerns like whether superheroes were bad for their kids or if their car seats actually kept their kids safe. Yep, back then all you needed was a couple large cardboard boxes and a utility knife to build your own car seat. None of this fancy five-point harness LATCH-system fancy-schmancy business. Just a semi-solid seat that raised your kid up high enough to fly out the windshield in a head-on collision.
This gem is one of many from Awful Library Books — click through to see the full page, from a 1974 book entitled Nomadic Furniture. Mary and Holly are librarians from Michigan who love to collect interesting specimens from libraries, and there are some incredible finds, often submitted by readers.
Check it out! You never know what you’ll find, Leonard Nimoy’s poetry or a book all about living in the future (i.e., 2010).
Please note: GeekDad does not recommend making car seats out of cardboard. Try robots instead.
Thanks to Nate B. for the tip!
GeekDad Puzzle Of The Week: Barring Further Complications Solution
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By Dave Banks
- August 21, 2010 |
- 9:00 am |
- Categories: Armchair Geek
Gosh folks, maybe this week’s puzzle was just too tough. Of everyone who entered (and there were a lot of entries), only Steven Strell answered correctly. So he gets a $50 gift certificate from ThinkGeek.
Solution:
As many people ascertained, the bar code can be deciphered to the following numbers:
9 0 4 9 7 0 3 0 4 5 5 0
But we certainly wouldn’t stop there — those numbers mean nothing.
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Metroid: Other M — Samus Speaks
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By Z
- August 20, 2010 |
- 11:14 am |
- Categories: Electronic Geek
Nintendo is really pulling out all the stops in preparation for the release of the Team Ninja-helmed Metroid: Other M late this month. Earlier this week, for example, I received a care package in the mail containing a Nintendo Points cards and instruction to download and re-experience 1994’s classic Super Metroid, as Other M will bridge the gap between that title and the GBA outing Metroid Fusion.
Though it fleshes out Metroid canon by tying the events of these two games together, Metroid: Other M also departs from a recurring motif by giving a voice to our long-silent protagonist. The following newly released trailer casts Samus as autobiographer, and thus serves as a handy recap of the events leading up to this latest chapter.
MathGirl Number Garden is a Free Download, Today Only!
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By Jenny Williams
- August 20, 2010 |
- 10:26 am |
- Categories: Electronic Geek
Image: MathGirl Games
Today only for App Friday, MomsWithApps is featuring MathGirl Number Garden as a free download until 8pm Pacific Time. Each Friday, they feature a family-friendly app to download to your portable device for free. Check them out each week!
This week’s app, MathGirl Number Garden, is a fun counting game that is more fun and more useful than it first seems. And with the added element of a beautiful garden that you can create and change, it’s great fun for kids of all ages. See our recent review for a complete description.
Watch out for MathGirl’s next app, MathGirl Addition House, in a few weeks.
Robot Parade
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By Adam Zaner
- August 20, 2010 |
- 10:00 am |
- Categories: People, Projects and Activities
Robot Parade from Jared Foster on Vimeo, via the TMBG Facebook page.
Create Your Own Edible Clone Trooper Army
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By Daniel Donahoo
- August 20, 2010 |
- 9:30 am |
- Categories: Projects and Activities
Like many GeekDad households, mine is all about Star Wars and computer games and video nights and treats. Well, for your next Star Wars screening, why not get down to the delicious business of creating your own Clone and Storm Trooper candies. Or they might just be the perfect thing for the next Star Wars or Clone Wars themed birthday party you hold. The recipe and instructions come courtesy of the instructables.com community.
(via Neatorama)
Dork Tower Friday
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By Matt Blum
- August 20, 2010 |
- 9:00 am |
- Categories: Armchair Geek
Dork Tower #859 by John Kovalic
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.
Tags: Dork Tower, John Kovalic
Geeks of Note: Meg Cabot Embraces the “Geek” Label
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By Corrina Lawson
- August 20, 2010 |
- 8:30 am |
- Categories: Armchair Geek, Places
Meg Cabot admits it. She’s a total geek.
I had the pleasure of interviewing the bestselling author while attending the Romance Writers of America conference in Orlando in late July. In person, she’s is like a grown-up version of her writing voice: friendly, open, irreverent and very smart.
Cabot is the author of the Princess Diaries series and the young adult paranormal Mediator and Avalon High series. Her latest book for adults is Insatiable, a modern retelling of the Dracula story from Mina Harker’s point of view. We talked about her books, her readers, Harry Potter, e piracy and her love of Macs, not necessarily in that order.
I had heard her speak at a previous RWA luncheon where she talked about her love of science fiction, so the first question I asked was if she considered herself a geek.
Her answer was affirmative. She’d just visited the new Wizarding World of Harry Potter attraction at Universal Studios in Florida which she enjoyed very much, with some reservations.
“You have to tell them [Geek Dad's readers] about this because they’ll want to know,” she said. “The ride through Hogwarts [Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey] is not in HD and if you’re going to wait two hours, the video shouldn’t be fuzzy.”
She wished the ride had included more of the fun stuff from the books along with the scary stuff. “There was no dining hall, no moving stairs, no Harry & Ron’s bedroom.” She did decide to sort herself into Hufflepuff during the ride, however. She has a longer review of the entire visit at her blog.
When we moved onto her books, I told her that I’d noticed something of a transformation trend in her writing: for young readers and young adults: the girl on the outside, sometimes a geek, is transformed through adventure and experience to a person with more confidence. Or, in the case of the Airhead series, is literally transformed into a supermodel. Sorta of a geek fairy tale.
I asked her if this was based a bit on her experiences.
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