Ken’s Twitter Stream

fitzwilliefitzwillie: Truism:if an email starts with "If you're having trouble viewing this email..." then you probably don't want to anyway.
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fitzwilliefitzwillie: "Lego Friends Samantha Carter" http://t.co/C3aT9LYc
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KeriMorgretKeriMorgret: Wonderful calendar (with email option!) of Bay Area Science events. http://t.co/CR7Aorgy cc @fitzwillie
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fitzwilliefitzwillie: "LEGO USS Reliant From Star Trek II:The Wrath of Khan" http://t.co/wpFNjnEM
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DanCitizenDanCitizen: @fitzwillie Real dads do cloth diapers. Read Daddy Dan's Guide to Diapers http://t.co/4PwaOL9M
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heaathherrrheaathherrr: RT @dhewlett:“@fitzwillie:"A Hilarious New Web Series From Stargate’s David Hewlett" http://t.co/M13fkdZj” Thank you GeekDad!
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glenn_evansglenn_evans: RT @dhewlett:“@fitzwillie:"A Hilarious New Web Series From Stargate’s David Hewlett" http://t.co/M13fkdZj” Thank you GeekDad!
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KeriMorgretKeriMorgret: @fitzwillie I wonder how many patents they have on the sorting and automated robots. Betting they did storage bins in-house,too.
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fitzwilliefitzwillie: @KeriMorgret The automation is mind-boggling!
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EnaxuEnaxu: RT @dhewlett:“@fitzwillie:"A Hilarious New Web Series From Stargate’s David Hewlett" http://t.co/M13fkdZj” Thank you GeekDad!
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Glass Robot Invasion From Oregon

Sure,you could build a robot with things like circuit boards and solder and allen wrenches,and it could,you know,do stuff. Or,you could do what Eric Bailey does:Take some glass into your home-built-and-wired workshop and use some serious heat to turn it into a slick-looking retro-bot. Art? Check. DIY? Check. Geek? No [...] [...]

100 Games + 100 Cupcakes = Sweet!

We’ve posted about cool cake art on GeekDad before,and about cupcakes,and of course about games. But we’ve never posted about all three topics at once,until now. A graphic design and jewelry artist named Robin Dahlberg and several of her housemates made a set of one hundred of the most awesome cupcakes ever. Each [...] [...]

You,Too,Can Make Amazingly Beautiful Fractals With Apophysis

I’ve loved fractals since I was a kid. I remember writing lots of programs to generate them when I was in high school,including (just because I could) programming my graphing calculator to display a monochromatic version of the Mandelbrot set. Fractals are the perfect intersection of math and art,but they’re not easy for [...] [...]