Photo Gallery: The weird and wacky Lego creations of BrickCon

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Editor’s Note: There are all types of geeks in the world: Software geeks. Film geeks. Game geeks. Based on the crowds at Seattle’s BrickCon event on Saturday, there are quite a few Lego geeks out there too. It takes a very special type of person (we’d say patient) to piece together multicolored Lego blocks into life-like… Read More…

How a father-and-son Lego project sparked an iPad game

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Seattle entrepreneur Hillel Cooperman loves Legos. So, each year, the founder of Jackson Fish Market gets excited for BrickCon, a 2-day event which showcases masterpieces made of the plastic building blocks. This year, however, Cooperman is doing something a bit different. He plans to showcase a creation which has a bit of a high-tech twist…. Read More…

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

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Commodore USA revives the 64.  LOAD “*”,8,1 FTW. Seattle startup Evri’s mobile app EvriThing Baseball is your big ticket this season. A simple sandworm size chart and the geekery that ensues (via Veronica Belmont). 57 ways to play with your Legos. Our hats are off to the geek who simultaneously beat four Super Mario Bros. games… Read More…