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Nerd Notes: Tattooed teeth, the battleshoe and a Borderlands proposal

Eric Schmidt interviews Tina Fey at Google HQ. Highlights include Tina telling Eric he would be the kind of guest… Read More

Nerd Notes: Bill & Ted 3, Yoda bat and the best of Sakura-Con

The Harvard Business Review tried to have a very serious discussion with Ben Huh about cat pictures, misspellings and Fail… Read More

Photo Gallery: 50 Amazing Characters from Sakura-Con

As I strolled through Sakura-Con at the Convention Center in Seattle on Saturday I was suddenly transformed into another dimension… Read More

How one Seattle company is looking to capitalize on The Royal Wedding

A few days ago, someone asked me if GeekWire had any plans for covering the royal wedding. At the time,… Read More

Nerd Notes: Easter bunnies will fail, whales will sing and AT&T will survive

Whale songs hit the charts. Turns out whales aren’t just singing to get laid. AT&T is not going to crumble,… Read More

Nerd Notes: Whales inspire pianos, bugs inspire robots and marijuana inspires Ziggy

How to fix any computer by The Oatmeal. Kohler introduces new $6,000 “smart” toilet. The perfect place to spend the… Read More

Ken Griffey Jr. is a pilot, flies a plane with giant parachute

This was news to us, but apparently Seattle Mariners legend Ken Griffey Jr. has been working on his pilot’s license.… Read More

The urban dwelling of the future, built like a Lego set

The future of urban dwellings may be making its debut in a SoDo warehouse today. The Seattle architecture firm of… Read More

Another victim of technology: Nordstrom piano players?

We got a bit of a chuckle after Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. slammed the iPad for U.S. job losses, with… Read More

Nerd Notes: A Kinect controlled armchair, a chameleon attacks and a president steals a pen

An official Rise of the Planet of the Apes trailer is released featuring slick CG apes, courtesy of Weta Digital… Read More

Foursquare nerds, unite: Your day has almost arrived

As an avid Foursquare user in Seattle, Brian Groth knows he isn’t experiencing all the benefits that someone might see… Read More

Nerd Notes: Kid sides with Vader, Google Earth wackery and an Angry Birds birthday

Some kid chooses the Dark Side over the Jedi Academy and makes a couple of Disney workers extremely uncomfortable. Apparently… Read More

The Daily What, Zillow and Justin Bieber nominated for Webbys

Nominations were released this week for the 15th annual Webby Awards, the Oscars-style bash for Internet innovation, creativity and other… Read More

Getting to know our Space Shuttle consolation prize

OK, so we didn’t get one of the real Space Shuttles. But the thing we got looks a lot like… Read More

Nerd Notes: The Winklevoss twins go away, video games go for the Grammy and Brazil plays with LEGOs

Judge tells Winklevoss twins to take the money, settlements don’t come in pairs. Google launches a daily trivia game, a… Read More

Nerd Notes: Woz seems lonely, YouTube seems bored and Apple doesn’t seem to like horses

Woz says he’d mull return to Apple if asked — which he hasn’t been. Geek Zodiac. Too bad geeks don’t… Read More

Coming soon to our local Laser Dome: Bieber Fever

Seattle’s Pacific Science Center Laser Dome is one of our favorite local attractions — a geeky night out that everyone… Read More

Nerd Notes: Shakespeare’s Terminator 2, Microscopic Microchip Art, and tweeting for beer at the ballpark

Kevin Zelco (@MsBeerVendor) is taking beer orders (and tips) at Safeco Field via tweets. A @MrUrinal would round this venture out… Read More

Nerd Notes: Commodore Revived, Bill and Ted Return and Snake Makes a Fashion Statement

Commodore USA revives the 64. LOAD “*”,8,1 FTW. Seattle startup Evri’s mobile app EvriThing Baseball is your big ticket this… Read More

Death Cab for Cutie plans historic livestream of new music video at 4 p.m.

I am really curious to see how this turns out. At 4 p.m. today, the Seattle/Bellingham band Death Cab for… Read More

Rare supercar crashes in Seattle: Details from police report; driver still a mystery

A crash in Seattle typically wouldn’t generate interest beyond the region, but car geeks around the country are buzzing about… Read More

Nerd Notes: Volcanoes, sports, sneakers and moonbuggys

Sci-fi fantasy novelist George R.R. Martin feels cheated by the “Lost” finale. Lost co-creator Damon Lindeloff feels like starting a… Read More

Nerd Notes: 10 lessons from Angry Birds, 2 Thor posters and 1 Playmobil Apple Store

10 Lessons from Angry Birds that can make you a better CIO. No, slingshotting birds at the IT staff didn’t… Read More

Paul Allen to reroute Columbia River, floating game trucks and other April Fool’s Day jokes

For whatever reason, the tech industry just loves April Fool’s Day. Big companies, small companies and everyone in between likes… Read More

Nerd Notes: QuickBar dies, Sagan sings again, and Floodzilla

The reviews are in on Amazon’s Cloud Player. Adobe dreams up an iPad Photoshop App. If A Glorious Dawn didn’t spark a… Read More

Nerd Notes: Biz on Zuck, Skype in the Classroom and Noah Wyle +1

$500 Million: Too low for Twitter? Biz drops the juicy details about Zuckerberg’s courting (it happened in a car…) on Howard Stern. Nintendo announces the next console… Read More

Nintendo releases 3DS, and it already has one huge fan in Jimmy Fallon: ‘This is insane’

Gaming nerds spent Saturday night waiting in lines across the country in order to gobble up Nintendo’s new 3DS, which… Read More

Seattle band looks for big hit: ‘(Don’t Wanna Be Your) Facebook Friend’

Afraid of Figs describes itself as Seattle’s “most most prominent dried fruit related geek rock band.” That seemed like a… Read More

How Stephen Colbert made Nathan Myhrvold blush

It’s a little rare to see Nathan Myhrvold rendered speechless. After all, the former Microsoft chief technology officer seems like… Read More

Now Playing: Post-it Wars

There’s a lot of troubling stuff happening in the world right now, and people are looking for new ways to… Read More