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Apr 16, 2012, 4:36 PM

Downtown driving range: Intuit closing Seattle’s 2nd Avenue for golf stunt

Update: See this follow-up post with pictures from the event. Intuit, the company behind the Quicken financial software, is shutting… Read More

Apr 11, 2012, 1:01 AM

Comedian Jon Stewart rips Google glasses and Instagram’s $1B valuation

The weird and wild gyrations of the technology industry are certainly open to ridicule. And comedian Jon Stewart of The… Read More

Apr 4, 2012, 12:53 PM

Coming to Bravo: A reality TV show starring Cheezburger’s Ben Huh

“Huh?” That’s the working title of new reality TV show that Bravo announced today featuring none other than Ben Huh,… Read More

Mar 31, 2012, 11:39 PM

Photo Gallery: Weird scenes from Emerald City Comicon

It’s always the pleasantly strange things at Emerald City Comicon that catch my eye. A wizard eating a burrito. Darth… Read More

Mar 31, 2012, 3:45 PM

Comicon poll: Which superhero would you elect U.S. president?

Let’s take a pause for a moment from the heated rhetoric and political grandstanding coming out of the Barack Obama… Read More

Mar 30, 2012, 2:35 PM

Comedy superhero web series premieres at Seattle Comicon

Super Friends meets The Office? That, in a nutshell, is how Seattle production company Moon Bullet Studios describes its new… Read More

Mar 30, 2012, 12:50 PM

Seattle’s Space Needle soon to be inside Angry Birds Space

First, Angry Birds became part of the Space Needle. Now, the Space Needle is literally becoming part of Angry Birds.… Read More

Mar 30, 2012, 11:40 AM

Seattle’s first Science Fiction Film Festival starts ticket sales

With a kick-off Facebook post propelled by a tweet from major science-fiction fan Paul Allen, tickets have gone on sale… Read More

Mar 29, 2012, 11:53 AM

Weekend project: How to build a Star Wars TIE fighter

If you have a spare 30 hours and $300 this weekend, you may want to try a do-it-yourself project that’s… Read More

Mar 25, 2012, 10:47 PM

Paul Allen narrates as James Cameron navigates to the depths of the ocean floor

I never took Paul Allen — the billionaire software tycoon — for a citizen journalist. But that’s what the Microsoft… Read More

Mar 23, 2012, 1:45 PM

Video: Robot basketball and a new generation of geeks

Washington FIRST Robotics is holding its annual regional competition at the Century Link Events Center in Seattle today and Saturday,… Read More

Mar 23, 2012, 12:25 PM

Photo: Space Needle’s Angry Birds slingshot, final version

OK, now I get it. Here’s the end result of the “Angry Birds Space” promotion that Rovio and friends were… Read More

Mar 22, 2012, 3:54 PM

Rovio’s ‘Mighty Eagle’ explains Angry Birds stunt at Space Needle

A big thanks to the hundreds of you who tuned in for our impromptu live stream from the Angry Birds… Read More

Mar 17, 2012, 5:47 PM

Dorky’s Arcade: ‘THIS IS NOT CHUCKY CHEESE!!!’

What is the proper role of the arcade in modern society? Should it be a place for boozing adults, or… Read More

Mar 14, 2012, 3:20 PM

Master Chief, the ultimate Microsoft security guard

I spent some time today over at Microsoft’s Worldwide Public Safety Symposium, and spent some time inside the company’s Global Security… Read More

Mar 8, 2012, 2:11 PM

Geek Made: Graypants creates intricate design products with your garbage

The silver lining in a slow economy is that smart people get scrappy. With a knack for design and access… Read More

Mar 8, 2012, 12:19 PM

Video: Rock star Dave Dederer at the GeekWire Summit

At the conclusion of yesterday’s GeekWire Summit, we were honored to be joined by one of our favorite Seattle-based musicians,… Read More

Mar 5, 2012, 9:06 PM

Check out this awesome basketball-shooting robot

Forget about “Linsanity.” Check out this sharpshooting basketball robot, created by students at Seattle’s Aviation High School. The robot will… Read More

Feb 26, 2012, 5:26 PM

The difference between Apple and Microsoft, Google’s grub, and other quotes of the week

The best comments, quotes, tweets and random zingers we heard this week … “This sums up the difference between Apple… Read More

Feb 24, 2012, 9:23 AM

The condom of the future? Planned Parenthood offers high-tech rubber with QR code

Here’s a social media experiment that we didn’t see coming. Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest has begun distributing 55,000… Read More

Feb 21, 2012, 1:59 AM

Geek Humor: Stephen Colbert calls Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos a vindictive man

Comedian Stephen Colbert returned to the airwaves Monday night, and he didn’t waste any time taking a few cracks at… Read More

Feb 21, 2012, 12:39 AM

How these geeks pulled off one truly amazing light show at CenturyLink Field

What happens when you turn a bunch of photographers, artists and sports geeks loose on a pro football and soccer… Read More

Feb 10, 2012, 5:18 AM

Classic PC game by Bill Gates makes comeback on iPhone

It might be hard to believe nowadays, but there was a time when Bill Gates himself was writing the software… Read More

Feb 3, 2012, 10:53 AM

Redfin exposes gritty underbelly of real estate with Twitter feed @REConfidential

Who knew that being a real estate agent entailed so many odd encounters. But thanks to Redfin we are now… Read More

Feb 3, 2012, 9:58 AM

Why this tech company is using potty humor for its 30-second Super Bowl ad

Ok, I’ll admit it, I am a bit of a sucker for the Super Bowl ads. And each year before… Read More

Feb 2, 2012, 2:12 PM

Geek Made: How to make apple cider … with a bicycle

As I pedaled on a bright red Schwinn, with the sweet scent of Gala apples around me, I realized that… Read More

Feb 1, 2012, 11:35 AM

Snow from an R/C plane: You’ve seen the great pictures, now check out the cool video

There was a huge amount of interest in our post a couple weeks ago explaining how Zach Sweetser, a 17-year-old junior… Read More

Jan 23, 2012, 5:53 PM

Redfin’s ‘hunky’ IT department exposed in charity calendar

This is pretty funny — and slightly disturbing. Redfin, the Seattle-based online real estate company, has produced a very tongue-in-cheek… Read More

Jan 23, 2012, 7:02 AM

Behind the scenes: Teenager captures amazing aerial snow pictures from R/C plane

Zach Sweetser, a 17-year-old junior at Bellevue’s Interlake High School, has been an aviation enthusiast since he could talk, and… Read More

Jan 19, 2012, 12:18 AM

Bring on the nerds! Jon Stewart’s hilarious look at the SOPA fight

The Stop Online Piracy Act certainly has generated plenty of controversy in recent days, highlighted by the Wednesday blackouts of… Read More