New Avengers Animated Series Coming This Fall

The Avengers are coming this Fall! But it’s not the Joss Whedon live-action movie. This time we have the new animated Avengers series geared a little more for the kids.

Happy Birthday to Wil Wheaton — You’re Still Prime to Us!

If you follow friend-of-GeekDad and all around most excellent geek Wil Wheaton on Twitter, you’ll know that earlier this week he was bemoaning the fact that he would be turning 38 today. He tweeted “…it feels much, much older than 37.” Especially because his age was no longer a prime number.
His Twitter fans ponied up [...]

The First Pair of Glasses: A Geek Rite of Passage

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Something that many geeks have in common is vision correction. Whether you choose to sport stylishly geeky frames or to wear contact lenses, it’s a pretty common thing to not have 20/20 vision. Personally, I was eight years old when I got my first pair of glasses. We discovered that I needed them [...]

Level One: Delving Into Dungeons & Dragons As A Family

We stood outside the tomb, watching it collapse. Then we got our Experience Points and had pie.
In a moment a quarter-century in the making, I completed my first Dungeons & Dragons quest this month, with my wife and daughter playing their first adventure alongside.
I never got to play D&D for real as a kid. In [...]

Bill Nye, the Eye Health Guy?

Bill Nye (of “the Science Guy” fame) has teamed up with VSP to teach us about eye health. In these VSP EyeFiles videos, he talks about various eye health myths and other information, all while sitting in a laboratory full of bubbling things, microscopes and other science paraphernalia. Each video is short, about two minutes, [...]

Big Bang Big Boom: Stop Motion Animation at Its Finest

If you haven’t seen the latest effort from blublu.org then make sure you have a spare ten minutes before clicking play on the video embedded above. Released at the beginning of this month, this video took months and hundreds of buckets of paints to create. It is a “wall-animation”, but it is so much more and brings much laughter and amazement to the big bang theory. My two boys keep asking to watch it again and again.

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.

There’s Still Time To Enter Our Ponoko/Sparkfun Competition

We’ve had some great entries in so far for our geeky design competition with Ponoko and Sparkfun, but don’t worry, there are still a few days left for you to add yours and be in with the chance of winning the materials you’ll need to make it.
The basic idea of the competition is for you [...]

New “DC Universe” Trailer Has the Best Super-Combat Ever

Many amazing things dropped at SDCC this year, and we’re still sifting through the piles of awesome to see what we missed as we watched the flurry of tweets. And one thing that has totally floored us a couple days later is this trailer for the upcoming DC Universe MMO. We heard the reports about cool voice casting being involved, but if this trailer is any indication of the tone and action that the game will carry, then count us in. Watch this, and then we dare you to disagree (which of course some of you will likely do, but that won’t dampen our excitement!).

Twaggies: Visualizing Tweets One Joke at a Time

If you read Twitter on a regular or semi-regular basis, you’ve surely happened upon a tweet or two that, like the one above, fairly cried out for someone with artistic talent to give it visual expression. Those cries have been answered, finally, by Twaggies.
If the picture above isn’t enough reason for you to check out [...]