If you know a geek with a sense of humor and a taste for offbeat stuff, all but one of these products will make a great holiday gift. The last is one you definitely should avoid. BTW, if you hate the ...

Subscribe to Geek Fuel to get a monthly mystery box by mail. Here's what the sold-out December box contained. (Courtesy of Troy Dreier) When I got home the other day, a bright red shoebox full of ...

It’s been 13 years since Freaks and Geeks was cancelled by NBC and since that time, the show has become far more popular than it ever was on network television, where it bounced around from Saturday ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE Do you sit around your pad, wishing there was more use for that Flash ...

It’s a Sunday night at The Astoria Bar, and while not typically a big night in the bar industry, a steady stream of patrons begins to come through the front door around 7:30 p.m. And they mean ...

Hello. My name is Chris, and I’m a geek. This fact should come as no surprise to folks who know me or, indeed, to anyone who has read my stories in this very publication during the past 15 years.

I like the idea behind Swivel: Allow anyone to upload any data set and compare it with other data. At this writing, on the service's first day live, there are 13,364 different graphs on the site. This ...

Or, more specifically, I recently spent a weekend on Whidbey Island with a group of adults searching for a hidden box filled with plastic spider rings, toy cars, pens, stickers, key chains, and fake ...

Seriousness is overrated. Sure, there’s a time to be focused and professional. But there’s also a time to be silly and immature — yes, even when you have an ...

Today is the day we celebrate dads, and I want to say that I have a very cool dad. Two of my fondest childhood memories are sitting on my dad’s lap, reading the Sunday funnies together (Prince Valiant ...

The game show format could always use a twist, something to shake it up, not merely stir it. Geeks Who Drink answers that call with a literal twist, depending on the players’ drinks of choice, that is ...