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Comics Spotlight On: The New Frontier

Happy Comics Release Day! Given that I picked on DC earlier this week for their Cry of Justice mini-series and their continual reliance on gore and death, I wanted to spotlight something they did very right. DC: The New Frontier. When someone asks me why I love superheroes, this is the story I give them. The New Frontier was [...]

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Dork Tower Wednesday

Dork Tower #805 by John Kovalic 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. Read More Dork Tower Wednesday is a post from: World's Geekiest Dad ... and all my favorite geeky [...]

Dork Tower Wednesday is a post from: World's Geekiest Dad ... and all my favorite geeky toys.

Dork Tower Wednesday

Dork Tower Wednesday is a post from: World's Geekiest Dad ... and all my favorite geeky toys.

Giz Explains: How You’re Gonna Get Screwed By Ebook Formats [Giz Explains]

Giz Explains: How You’re Gonna Get Screwed By Ebook Formats [Giz Explains] is a post from: World's Geekiest Dad ... and all my favorite geeky toys.

HTML5 vs. Flash: The Video Benchmark Deathmatch [Online Video]

HTML5 vs. Flash: The Video Benchmark Deathmatch [Online Video] is a post from: World's Geekiest Dad ... and all my favorite geeky toys.

Video: Walking Lego Mecha

This amazing Lego mecha is, according to the authoritative Brothers Brick, the first walking Lego mecha that “also boosts aesthetics”. We take that to mean that it actually walks by picking up its feet rather than shuffling along like a burned-out meth-addict. Either way, the IR-remote controlled bot, named Element Commune, is a fantastic build by [...]

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Seatbelt Cutter and Window Smasher for Paranoid Drivers

If you have watched too many episodes of Criminal Minds, you probably already have a panic room in your home, ready for when golf-club and baseball-bat wielding psychopaths invade your house. But what of the other place where you spend so much of your time? What if you car plunges down a steep ravine into [...]

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The Top 10 Movies That Should Never, Ever Be Converted to 3D

Photo by Alan Levine; used under Creative Commons Attribution license. Why, really, did the 3D movie trend start? Does anybody remember, before the trend began, thinking “You know the problem with movies? They’re too two-dimensional?” We didn’t think so. 3D is so entrenched in the movie industry now that commercials for the upcoming remake of Clash [...]

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Weave Your Way to Glory: Teragati for the iPhone

1. Hey, no problem.. 2. Hmm, getting a little crowded here. 3. Yowza! So, the App o’ the Day is Teragati, brought to you by Mike Tsao of Attachment Computing (and a stay-at-home dad). Mike described it as a mix of “old-school Galaga mixed in with Doodle Jump-style gameplay” and it’s perfect for a little bit [...]

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Just How Fast Is Cisco’s New Router? Really Freaking Fast

Cisco Tuesday announced a new router, the CRS-3, that it says is capable of delivering 322 terabits per second. Now, we don’t usually cover routers and similar enterprise hardware here in Gadget Lab, but this one’s worth a brief mention. Let’s leave aside Cisco’s breathless hype (it will “forever change the internet” — yeah, we’ll believe [...]

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