Plug-ins for Privacy: Click n’ Clean and Bloody Vikings
Welcome to another edition of Plug-ins for Privacy! I’m featuring two very different plug-ins for this edition. One of these plug-ins makes standard browser controls more complete, and the other one…...
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Valve’s Portal Takes Us to a Computer-Centric Future
The long journey begins with a single click — your thoughts gone awry — as you enter a new virtual world beyond imagination. You take your first few steps into this place. It looks like you’ve been...
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World Cup Soccer for Geeks!
If you haven’t taken notice yet, you’ll soon be surrounded by the fun and fervor of the quadrennial soccer tournament officially known as the FIFA Women’s World Cup. Admittedly, sports don’t grace the...
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9 Things Parents Should Know About Transformers: Dark of the Moon
1. What’s it about? Robots in disguise. The Autobots are fully integrated into American society when a discovery is made in Russia that leads to a secret buried on the surface of the moon — a secret...
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7 Great Activities for Techie Kids and Dads
I believe technology provides some really fun activities for techie kids and Dads to do together. In my book “Do I Get My Allowance Before or After I’m Grounded?” I talk about all the ways that...
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New Scooby Animated Movie Brings More Mysterious Fun From Those Meddling Kids
The latest animated adventure with the Mystery Inc. gang arrives Saturday when Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur airs on Cartoon Network before coming to DVD and Blu-ray Sept. 6. It’s good timing to...
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Jamie Benning Reviews the Star Wars Blu-ray Set
For better or worse, the day is finally here – George Lucas’s magnum opus is out today on Blu-ray. I’m sure you’ve all heard by now that they’re not the versions we all know and love, and they’re not...
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ThunderCats Roar Back With ‘Epicness,’ Moral Lessons
The rebooted animated series' inaugural season resumes Friday night with "Berbils," in which the band of refugees encounter a village of robot bears in need of assistance. Watch an exclusive clip from...
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5 Wishes for the Next Generation of Game Consoles
Some forward-looking suggestions for what we hope is around the corner in the next round of console wars.
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GeekKid Gabe visits the Aperture Science Laboratories
I was completely taken by surprise at how quickly my son took to Portal. I once heard that a good game has simple rules, but can be endlessly variable. The rules for Portal are simple. The portal gun...
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BrickFair Proves the Love of Lego Is Everywhere
On Saturday, January 14, 2012, I packed the family in the car and drove the two hours from Huntsville to Birmingham, solely to attend AL BrickFair 2012 at the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center. While...
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How Do I Protect My Toys From My Kid?
“It’s a toy.” She repeated her answer three times, each time accentuating the word toy. It’s the same tone and technique she uses on the kid for the words “milk” “bedtime” and “poopies.” “It’s a...
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MLB’s “Ultimate Father-Son Sweepstakes” Made My Baseball-loving, Star...
My six year old daughter loves baseball (when she was three she invited Manny Ramirez to visit her school). She also loves Star Wars (which she consideres the ultimate princess movies). And she loves...
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Rockford’s Rock Opera is a Gorgeous Children’s Story in Music App Form
The children’s storybook is a timeless art form. With artistically drawn or painted imagery and captivating, fantastical stories, they help young imaginations explore new worlds during the nightly...
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Wayback Machine | The 10 Scariest Things I Watched as A Kid
It's October. That means movie theaters are overflowing with blood and sharp objects, zombies are taking over shopping malls, and the total number of Kit-Kats you can cram into your mouth at once is...
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Page Turners | Tony DiTerlizzi’s Top 10 Books for Creeping Out Kids
Reading creepy stories always set the mood for this festive holiday in the DiTerlizzi household. Here are some favorites that have endured for years.
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A Smile for Marie Curie on Her Birthday
Today is the birthday of Marie Curie, one of the most famous and ground-breaking woman scientists in history. 2012 also marks the 101st anniversary of the award of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Marie...
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The State of Oak Hampton vs. Robt Ochoa
My name is Robt Ochoa. I am a hard-working, honest citizen and I have never been in any kind of trouble before. Which why I was very surprised when about a month ago I received a summons to appear at ...
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Tell Your Kids Mashed-up Bedtime Stories
Tired of telling the same old stories to your kids, night after night? Guest blogger Jeff Ryan suggests you try mashing up the classics for fun.
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After Mass Effect: Redefining Videogame Storytelling
Once the reigning master of videogame storytelling, BioWare is getting some serious competition from indie studios.
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