Mini-Link: Non-RPG geekiness

Since I actually posted today’s article yesterday morning, here’s a very short something about my non-RPG interests.

Like a lot of tabletop RPG aficionados, I like geeky stuff. My favorites are about technology, vintage video games, movies, cool TV series and doing stuff with kids.

So far my blog list for those is rather limited. I haven’t seriously checked BoingBoing or Lifehacker, the top movers and shakers of the geek blog food-chain yet… and I just gave each one a rank boost on Technorati. Sigh.

I currently get my geeky news from 3 blogs:

• Critical Hits from my web buddies Dave, Bartoneous and friend. A great source of gaming (RPG and video), geeky youtube and just general cool stuff. They feature a weekly poll that is always interesting.
• Geeknews.net: Andy and Patrick give us the skinny on DIY projects, Vintage video game clothing, and all things enviro/techno/cool. A word of warning, Andy has a strange pirate fetish
• Geekdad: Another collective blog (geeks seem to aggregate) I’ve discovered only last week when I stumbled on a series on some old D&D modules they found in the basement and other RPG goodness. Has a very strong ‘do cool stuff with your kids’ theme to which I subscribe 100%. I found that particular post about letting your kids do dangerous things very interesting. Maybe I should apply to become a contributor to talk about non-RPG things.

Speaking of playing with kids, here’s another group of children friendly webgames:

Miniclip’s E-rated category of flash game. I like Raft Wars a lot.

Oh and on the topic of playing with kids, the Wii’s most excellent Super Mario Galaxy might be too hard for 4-6 year olds, but the cooperative mode where your child catches starpieces with the Wii mote while an adult plays the game makes for a very nice interactive activity.

Have a nice week.