Pixar has been making feature-length computer-animated films since Toy Story in 1995, and all of them have been artistic and popular successes; the latest is Brave, which is notable for being both Pixar's first "fairy tale" (in other words, a magic-based story set in a mythic "once upon a time" ...

If you've ever shared the grief of getting destroyed by diseases while playing Pandemic, consoled a friend over continuously bad dice rolls during an entire campaign of Dungeons & Dragons, or done a victory lap around the table after finally winning a marathon game of Puerto Rico, you know that ...

If you've been following role-playing game news, you know that the fate of Dungeons & Dragons is somewhat in peril. Many younger gamers flock to video games, not table-top games. Some old school gamers have abandoned the hobby entirely, or else they play outdated (but perfectly playable) versions of the ...

That darn Achilles has been joyriding around the walls of Troy again, and with Hector stuck to his bumper, no less! The city's best archers have hit Achilles with a thousand errors, but cocky Achilles doesn't seem to get wet in rainstorms and certainly isn't bothered by Troy's rain of ...

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The new NPR trivia quiz/puzzle show "Ask Me Another" is awesomely geeky - it even has geek icon Jonathan Coulton as its house musician!

To recap, I have enough funding to start MindGear, but not quite enough to do the full lab pictured here. I'll look at my financial options and at doing a crowdsourcing campaign soon. My attempt to economize by doing work I could farm out to others (website design, hiring efforts) ...

As I sat with my young son on the couch watching the "plot" of our first episode of the new Transformers: Animated series unfold, I couldn't help but state the obvious.

Congratulations to everyone that sent in a correct response for this past' Mondays Geekdad Puzzle of the Week, "Carets and Vees." Here is the puzzle as presented: For your shot at this week’s $50 ThinkGeek gift certificate, send in the count of counting numbers less than 2 million that are ...

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