Author Archives: Daniel-Donahoo
Top 10 Geeks from Downunder
Despite the distance, we are holding our own in Australia when it comes to fostering geek culture. So, here is an introduction to some high profile Australian Geeks you should get to know. Feel free, anyone who lives on this side of the equator, to make your own nominations in the comment box.
1. Dr Karl
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Tagged Australia, bret mckenzie, dr karl, flight of the conchords, geeks, People, Top 10, triple j
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The Wii Laptop Brings Portable Wireless Gaming
This is definitely the most impressive and good fun modification/hack I have seen in quite some time. Not being at all up to speed with a soldering iron, I respect those of you who engage in this type of activity.
I await a video that shows some actual game play. But, think of the possibilities – […] Continue reading
Tales2Go: Great Stories, on an Okay App
Tales2Go is an an app that delivers stories for your children straight to your phone. Nothing extraordinarily new about that, and the company knows it. They are pitching to the crowded app store market that this is quicker and easier than downloading and syncing stories via podcast or audio file. They are promoting the delivery […] Continue reading
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Tagged App Store, Armchair Geek, len cabral, odds bodkin, storytellers, storytelling, takes2go, tales
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Twitter Geeks all over The Shorty Awards
Last year and earlier this year, GeekDad spent some time making sure you were all aware of the best geeks to keep track of in 140 character form.
So, we are pleased to see that many Geek Tweeps and some good friends of GeekDad have made the final nominations for this years Shorty Awards. Over 250,000 […] Continue reading
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Tagged award, geek tweeps, People, shorty awards, The Internet, Twitter
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Age Appropriate Geek: What Age Should My Boys First Watch Star Wars? (GeekDad Wayback Machine)
My boys are 7 and 5 years old. They love to draw. Their latest drawing craze has to draw Star Wars scenarios. They draw stick figures with Darth Vader helmets, recreate a decent picture of R2-D2 and everyone is holding a light saber (yep, even R2-D2).
You see, my boys have not seen any Star Wars, […] Continue reading
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Tagged Armchair Geek, Movies, Star Wars
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Mrs. Cassidy’s Classroom: Media Literate 6-year-olds
I have recently become a fan of Kathy Cassidy. She is a blogger and “teacher of a class of six-year-olds in Moose Jaw, Canada who are inviting the world into their classroom to help them learn.” What Kathy means by this is that she is working on developing her students media literacy alongside their numeracy […] Continue reading
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4 Parenting iPhone Apps to Avoid
For some reason it appears that every idea that anyone has for a new iPhone app becomes reality. So much so that when anyone poses a problem requiring a solution, someone inevitably replies – “there is an app for that”. This does make traversing the iPhone App store quite a challenge and finding quality apps […] Continue reading
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Tagged apps, children, iPhone, Parenting, The Internet, Toys and Technology
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Impress Your Geeklets: Be a Comic Book Artist.
At GeekDad we are fans of opportunity, given the opportunity we have had to share our passions and ideas with you here on this blog. So, we give a hats off to the UK’s Mohawk Media who have brought us the graphic novel adventures of 80s cult figure and A-Team member, Mr.T.
Mohawk Media have put […] Continue reading
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Tagged artists, comic artists, Comics, Mr T, opportunity, People, portfolio, Projects and Activities, The A Team
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The Periodic Table (in Cupcake Form)
Thanks to the wonders of twitter and twitpic, and a Brisbane-based tech/entrepreneur guy called Jono Haysom who tweets at @JonoH I present to you – The Periodic Table of Elements in the form of deliciously iced baked goods!
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Tagged cupcakes, periodic table, Science, Science and Education
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Advent Calendar for Web Geeks
It has been running for a few years now, but this is a little reminder for all those coding and designing GeekDad’s out there that 24ways.org the advent calender for web geeks is doing it all again in 2009.
What is it?
24 ways is the advent calendar for web geeks. Each day throughout December we publish […] Continue reading
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Tagged advent, css, design, Everything Else, Hacking the Holidays, web design, web geeks
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