A Disappointing End to the Patriots’ Season
by It’s always tough when your playoff season ends with a loss. It’s really tough when the team lays an egg like the Patriots did today …
Author: Doug Cornelius
Trust Agents
I finished reading Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust, the new book from Chris Brogan and Julien Smith. …
Kendall Square Gets a Motto and a Logo
Kendall Square in Cambridge has gotten itself organized. The Kendall Square Association has formed itself to “to improve, promote and protect Kendall Square through the …
Top NASA Photos of All Time
For the 50th Anniversary of NASA, the Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine has published the Top NASA Photos of All Time, with 50 indelible images …
Books I Read in 2009
Since Jack Vinson published the list of the books he read in 2009, I thought I would too. Although, I left off the dozens (hundreds?) …
My Take on Makers by Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow tells the story in the near future of a two hardware hackers who fall in with microfinancing venture capitalists and invent the “New …
World’s Tallest Building Opens This Week
The Burj Dubai is at least 2,683ft from its base to the tip of its spire. That’s more than half a mile, the equivalent of …
The Princess and the Frog
The Son and I went to see The Princess and the Frog while being snowbound at my in-laws. It wasn’t very good, but it did …
GeekDad: The Book
It’s coming May 10, 2010 and currently available for preorder on Amazon.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – A Swedish Crime Novel
A Swedish crime novel sounds like an odd mix. But apparently Swedish crime novels are taking off. Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo …
Mission Flats – A Great Crime Novel for Your Bookshelf
What do you look for in your crime novels? Plot twists? Good cops doing good things and bad cops doing bad things? Good cops doing …
Peace in the Galaxy
Thanks to the LEGO Space Police keeping us safe from the Alien Outlaws. At least that is the story in our house with the latest …
Merry Christmas – Banjo Style
Bela Fleck playing The First Noel, Oh Come Let Us Adore Him, Jesus Joy of Man’s Desiring, Joy to the World during a banjo Jam …
GeekDads Unite and Fight the Snow
Last Saturday afternoon was GeekDad day at the Wired Holiday Store in New York City. I played chicken with the weekend blizzard and traveled down …
GeekDad Holiday Store in New York City
Join Ken Denmead, Editor of GeekDad, Matt Blum, Assistant Editor of GeekDad, me (!), and some other GeekDad writers at the Wired Holiday Store in …
So Your Kid Wants to be a Civil Rights Lawyer
Our Courts is a web-based education project designed to teach students civics and inspire them to be active participants in our democracy. They have produced …
The Business Side of LEGO
The Daily Mail has a a great story by James Delingpole on the business side of LEGO: When Lego lost its head – and how …