| Parenting News | |
| Fri, Feb 27 2009 - 9:28 PM | |
| Store a granola bar inside a glasses case | |
| Karen, if I were smart like you, the contents of my purse might not be covered in granola dust. I store my daughter's granola bars in a hard-sided glasses case in my diaper bag. They fit perfectly, t... | |
| Fri, Feb 27 2009 - 9:11 PM | |
| Save spring prunings for edging and fairy house construction mater... | |
| It's sunny in Portland today, and I was out in the garden in earnest for the first time in months. I pruned a neglected hydrangea, and while standing back to admire my handiwork, I naturally started... | |
| Fri, Feb 27 2009 - 4:22 PM | |
| Ridley Scott's "Robin Hood" set to be an all-Australian affair | |
| There has been ongoing debate about whether Russell Crowe would be the Sheriff of Nottingham or Robin himself in Ridley Scott's upcoming version of the classic tale, but it appears casting have taken... | |
| Fri, Feb 27 2009 - 3:14 PM | |
| DT Friday Meta-Freakout: Intuitive Toxicology And The White Male E... | |
| The regular DT Friday Freakout will return next week, so that we can present you with this special DT Friday Meta-Freakout. A couple of weeks ago, this NY Times reader's interest was understandably pi... | |
| Fri, Feb 27 2009 - 2:00 PM | |
| Like The Matrix - for Plants | |
| I sometimes wonder whether my nature and gardening posts are a little too low-tech for GeekDad. Not this time. A couple weeks ago the boys and I took a mini-field trip to a local hydrofarm. On a tin... | |
| Fri, Feb 27 2009 - 1:30 PM | |
| Top 10 Cool People I Want to Meet at Wondercon This Weekend | |
| Image via Wikipedia I'm headed for Wondercon in San Francisco today, and while I have a couple interviews planned (and the West Coast premiere of the new Wonder Woman animated movie to watch), one of ... | |
| Fri, Feb 27 2009 - 1:20 PM | |
| Uppababy RumbleSeat Reaches Press Release Stage | |
| Unless there's a hands-on editors' preview involving muffins and gift bags which I didn't get invited to, the Five Stages of Web 2.0 Product Launch are as follows: I. Purloined phonecam shots II. Trad... | |
| Fri, Feb 27 2009 - 1:00 PM | |
| Crayon Pixel Art | |
| I'm sure most of us have hung some crayon art on the fridge, but certainly not anything like this. Artist Christian Faur uses the crayons themselves to make killer pixel art. According to the webs... | |
| Fri, Feb 27 2009 - 12:30 PM | |
| New York International Children's Film Festival Opens Today With B... | |
| The New York International Children's Film Festival, the largest festival for children and teens in North America, starts today and runs through March 15. According to the Daily News, the festival is... | |
| Fri, Feb 27 2009 - 12:00 PM | |
| Wedding Proposal Is A Snap at LEGOLAND | |
| The foundation for a strong marriage might be a 2 x 6 plastic brick. Earlier this week, a Colorado couple were engaged at LEGOLAND in California. The proposal was the creative concoction of Troy Cobb,... | |
| Thu, Feb 26 2009 - 9:37 PM | |
| Flower: The Interactive Poem/Videogame | |
| Now I've entered my parental gaming years it's not often I finish a videogame in one sitting. Even compelling shorted experience like Portal and Braid have to be portioned up into smaller sittings. B... | |
| Thu, Feb 26 2009 - 7:02 PM | |
| Prolong museum visits with a scavenger hunt | |
| Melynda's hack is perfect for Spring Break prep: If I want to spend a little more time at a nature center or museum than I think my kids might, I'll get on the Internet the night before a visit and ma... | |
| Thu, Feb 26 2009 - 6:57 PM | |
| During visits, stash outerwear in a bag so you won't lose bits of ... | |
| Such a simple, smart way to deal with the on-again-off-again winter paraphernalia. From Sara: Just another reusable shopping bag trick. I've been bringing an empty bag into places like the library or... | |
| Thu, Feb 26 2009 - 6:30 PM | |
| links for 2009-02-26 | |
| Penny Pinching Parent: Homemade "Moon" Sand | |
| Thu, Feb 26 2009 - 3:00 PM | |
| Spiderman the Musical! (Music and Lyrics by U2) | |
| No, it's not April Fool's; this is for real. Some of the same folks behind the very popular Lion King musical are producing Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark, a Broadway Musical, and Bono and The Edge fr... | |
| Thu, Feb 26 2009 - 2:52 PM | |
| The Skeeving Of Lot 1069: Little Kid Stuff From The Michael Jackso... | |
| Never having visited Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch myself, I can only assume that you entered it through a giant gate carved with the phrase, "Abandon all commonly accepted notions of the term 'ag... | |
| Thu, Feb 26 2009 - 2:30 PM | |
| LEGO Business Card | |
| As if I needed another reason to think that working for LEGO would be the most awesome job imaginable, Alexander Kjerulf just blew my mind with these customized minifig business cards that LEGO employ... | |
| Thu, Feb 26 2009 - 2:00 PM | |
| Phillip José Farmer Crosses the River | |
| It is with great sadness that we report the passing of science fiction author Phillip José Farmer, most famously known for the Riverworld series of books that told the story of humans from all eras o... | |
| Thu, Feb 26 2009 - 1:00 PM | |
| Enjoy the Sounds of Classic Arcade Videogames | |
| Another example of why I love the internet. This fellow, back in the day, taped the ambient sounds of video games being played, and stored the recordings away for the future. Well, the future is no... | |
| Thu, Feb 26 2009 - 11:43 AM | |
| God Save The Queen! The Peanut Regime! Four English Kids Can Now E... | |
| Trail mix for everybody! Our long peanut-allergic nightmare may be over. Allergists at Cambridge Hospitals have published the results of an experimental treatment course for peanut allergies that succ... | |
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| Parenting News | |
| Fri, Feb 27 2009 - 9:28 PM | |
| Store a granola bar inside a glasses case | |
| Karen, if I were smart like you, the contents of my purse might not be covered in granola dust. I store my daughter's granola bars in a hard-sided glasses case in my diaper bag. They fit perfectly, t... | |
| Fri, Feb 27 2009 - 9:11 PM | |
| Save spring prunings for edging and fairy house construction mater... | |
| It's sunny in Portland today, and I was out in the garden in earnest for the first time in months. I pruned a neglected hydrangea, and while standing back to admire my handiwork, I naturally started... | |
| Fri, Feb 27 2009 - 4:22 PM | |
| Ridley Scott's "Robin Hood" set to be an all-Australian affair | |
| There has been ongoing debate about whether Russell Crowe would be the Sheriff of Nottingham or Robin himself in Ridley Scott's upcoming version of the classic tale, but it appears casting have taken... | |
| Fri, Feb 27 2009 - 3:14 PM | |
| DT Friday Meta-Freakout: Intuitive Toxicology And The White Male E... | |
| The regular DT Friday Freakout will return next week, so that we can present you with this special DT Friday Meta-Freakout. A couple of weeks ago, this NY Times reader's interest was understandably pi... | |
| Fri, Feb 27 2009 - 2:00 PM | |
| Like The Matrix - for Plants | |
| I sometimes wonder whether my nature and gardening posts are a little too low-tech for GeekDad. Not this time. A couple weeks ago the boys and I took a mini-field trip to a local hydrofarm. On a tin... | |
| Fri, Feb 27 2009 - 1:30 PM | |
| Top 10 Cool People I Want to Meet at Wondercon This Weekend | |
| Image via Wikipedia I'm headed for Wondercon in San Francisco today, and while I have a couple interviews planned (and the West Coast premiere of the new Wonder Woman animated movie to watch), one of ... | |
| Fri, Feb 27 2009 - 1:20 PM | |
| Uppababy RumbleSeat Reaches Press Release Stage | |
| Unless there's a hands-on editors' preview involving muffins and gift bags which I didn't get invited to, the Five Stages of Web 2.0 Product Launch are as follows: I. Purloined phonecam shots II. Trad... | |
| Fri, Feb 27 2009 - 1:00 PM | |
| Crayon Pixel Art | |
| I'm sure most of us have hung some crayon art on the fridge, but certainly not anything like this. Artist Christian Faur uses the crayons themselves to make killer pixel art. According to the webs... | |
| Fri, Feb 27 2009 - 12:30 PM | |
| New York International Children's Film Festival Opens Today With B... | |
| The New York International Children's Film Festival, the largest festival for children and teens in North America, starts today and runs through March 15. According to the Daily News, the festival is... | |
| Fri, Feb 27 2009 - 12:00 PM | |
| Wedding Proposal Is A Snap at LEGOLAND | |
| The foundation for a strong marriage might be a 2 x 6 plastic brick. Earlier this week, a Colorado couple were engaged at LEGOLAND in California. The proposal was the creative concoction of Troy Cobb,... | |
| Thu, Feb 26 2009 - 9:37 PM | |
| Flower: The Interactive Poem/Videogame | |
| Now I've entered my parental gaming years it's not often I finish a videogame in one sitting. Even compelling shorted experience like Portal and Braid have to be portioned up into smaller sittings. B... | |
| Thu, Feb 26 2009 - 7:02 PM | |
| Prolong museum visits with a scavenger hunt | |
| Melynda's hack is perfect for Spring Break prep: If I want to spend a little more time at a nature center or museum than I think my kids might, I'll get on the Internet the night before a visit and ma... | |
| Thu, Feb 26 2009 - 6:57 PM | |
| During visits, stash outerwear in a bag so you won't lose bits of ... | |
| Such a simple, smart way to deal with the on-again-off-again winter paraphernalia. From Sara: Just another reusable shopping bag trick. I've been bringing an empty bag into places like the library or... | |
| Thu, Feb 26 2009 - 6:30 PM | |
| links for 2009-02-26 | |
| Penny Pinching Parent: Homemade "Moon" Sand | |
| Thu, Feb 26 2009 - 3:00 PM | |
| Spiderman the Musical! (Music and Lyrics by U2) | |
| No, it's not April Fool's; this is for real. Some of the same folks behind the very popular Lion King musical are producing Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark, a Broadway Musical, and Bono and The Edge fr... | |
| Thu, Feb 26 2009 - 2:52 PM | |
| The Skeeving Of Lot 1069: Little Kid Stuff From The Michael Jackso... | |
| Never having visited Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch myself, I can only assume that you entered it through a giant gate carved with the phrase, "Abandon all commonly accepted notions of the term 'ag... | |
| Thu, Feb 26 2009 - 2:30 PM | |
| LEGO Business Card | |
| As if I needed another reason to think that working for LEGO would be the most awesome job imaginable, Alexander Kjerulf just blew my mind with these customized minifig business cards that LEGO employ... | |
| Thu, Feb 26 2009 - 2:00 PM | |
| Phillip José Farmer Crosses the River | |
| It is with great sadness that we report the passing of science fiction author Phillip José Farmer, most famously known for the Riverworld series of books that told the story of humans from all eras o... | |
| Thu, Feb 26 2009 - 1:00 PM | |
| Enjoy the Sounds of Classic Arcade Videogames | |
| Another example of why I love the internet. This fellow, back in the day, taped the ambient sounds of video games being played, and stored the recordings away for the future. Well, the future is no... | |
| Thu, Feb 26 2009 - 11:43 AM | |
| God Save The Queen! The Peanut Regime! Four English Kids Can Now E... | |
| Trail mix for everybody! Our long peanut-allergic nightmare may be over. Allergists at Cambridge Hospitals have published the results of an experimental treatment course for peanut allergies that succ... | |
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