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10 iPod games for those who don’t have the Touch

July 9th, 2009, 11:33 am by Jayson Peters

08classic_famRecently I was reading Old iPods Have Still Got Game, an interesting post by Paul Govan at Wired’s GeekDad blog.

I am still toiling in the dark ages with my 30GB iPod Classic — what we used to call a “video iPod” Back in the Day. I even installed a new battery rather than upgrade when the shiny new iPhone and iPod Touch came on the scene. Don’t ask me why.

Paul’s post describes being pleasantly surprised at Texas Hold’em Poker. I considered simply mentioning it and linking to his story, but then I decided to take it a step further and highlight a bunch of additional iPod Click Wheel games for luddites like me. Each costs $4.99. Here are 10 that caught my eye. Read the rest of this entry »

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Regeneration or Degeneration?

July 2nd, 2009, 5:14 pm by Chris "KeL" Adams

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Wired is reporting that cellular biologists from the Max Planck Institute are making headway in their studies of the regenerative abilities of salamanders. They’re hopeful these advances can be used to help humans regrow missing limbs  as well.

This is a nice thought, but we all know how this is going to end. Those scientists would know as well, if only they kept up on the comic book lore. Over 45 years ago in The Amazing Spider-Man #6, Dr. Curt Connors tried this very experiment using reptile DNA. He successfully regrew his missing arm, but was also transformed into The Lizard. Connors has been cured of his affliction and relapsed to battle Spider-Man countless times. He’s even a front-runner to face off against the web-spinner in the next Spider-Man movie. Is this really the sort of menace we want to introduce into the world?

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@nerdvana in ‘100 Geeks You Should Be Following On Twitter’

May 13th, 2009, 8:21 am by Jayson Peters

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So being a geek and a dad, I regularly read GeekDad, a blog at Wired.com dedicated to “raising geek generation 2.0.” The editors and many contributors maintain a tone and style that have influenced me as I ventured into the world of blogging about things like video games and science fiction. (And there’s plenty for you GeekMoms and Geeklets, too.)

They were such an inspiration, in fact, that last month when they sought volunteer writers to round out their ranks I considered throwing my hat into the ring. But they got such an overwhelming response that the call for applications was closed before I had a chance to submit mine!

Today they have an article by head GeekDad Ken Denmead entitled “100 Geeks You Should Be Following On Twitter.” Intrigued, I clicked through to read more, and discovered that I was already following many of them, with surprising exceptions like Bill Amend of Foxtrot fame and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. These oversights were immediately corrected.

But I was delightfully surprised to see my own name (Jayson Peters, “Geek blogger”) and this blog, Nerdvana, sandwiched between Geek Girl Diva (”Geeky blogger and affiliates manager for Entertainment Earth”) and Alison Lunde (”Code monkey and sarcastageek”).

Thanks, GeekDads! So there you have it — all the cool people follow Nerdvana on Twitter. And so should you!

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‘Wired Science’ program features Arizona

November 6th, 2007, 10:35 am by Jayson Peters

The newsmagazine program Wired Science airs 8 p.m. Wednesday Nov. 7 at 8 p.m. on the Valley’s PBS affiliate, KAET-TV (Channel 8). This week’s segment, “Peak Water,” will feature an Arizona issue that should concern all of us. PBS provides this description:

You might be familiar with the phrase “peak oil”—that’s the idea that oil, a finite resource, is running out. But there’s another impending crisis, one that all the Prius drivers in the world can’t stop: “peak water.” Water’s a disappearing commodity too and nowhere more so than in the American southwest. Wired Science visits Arizona and Nevada to see how the driest communities in the country are simultaneously managing a desert population explosion and ever scarce water supplies.

For a preview, head on over to http://www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/video/218-peak_water_preview_.html

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