Empire Strikes Back Sticker Generator
by Back in 1980, your Star Wars cred could be shown by slapping Empire Strikes Back sticker letters on your book covers and trapper keepers. RestrainingBolt.com …
Planets X and Pluto
I grew up learning about the nine planets. My son is growing up learning about eight planets. In 2006 the International Astronomical Union demoted beloved …
Laser Cats 5
I don’t know how Lorne Michaels got James Cameron to do this movie, but it’s hilarious. Combine Terminator, Aliens and Avatar with Laser Cats. Add …
The Lightning Thief: The First Book in the Percy Jackson Series
One of the challenges of parenting is finding activities that you enjoy and that your kids enjoy. The same is true with reading. There are …
Tracking Your Books and Library Online
GoodReads versus LibraryThing versus Shelfari Back in 2008, I started looking at ways to catalog my household’s book collection: Books and Knowledge Management. LibraryThing was …
Wake Up Dead: A Violent Thriller
Looking for a page-turning crime thriller? Wake Up Dead is violent crime story, full of bad people doing bad things. With a book title like …
A Disappointing End to the Patriots’ Season
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 …
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 …