First up this week is our new Miss USA who is apparently a bit of a Star Wars geek!
The Mary Sue has an awesome list of 8 real women who deserve their own movies! #8 is 2 women who killed Nazis and it goes up from there!
IO9 has some great mash up art with It’s the Great Dalek Charlie Brown. It is so adorable!!!
Heroes and Heartbreakers has a list of the most hardcore geek heroines! Quite a read.
Ok, I am wiped this week so I am just sharing 1 video! I will return next week with more links!
Ok, so lets kick off some geek!
To start with a guy in Australia built a Hover craft! How cool! (via Dvice)
Over on GeekDad you can meet an actual Lego Master Builder.
Mamapop has a great primer on all the Doctor Who’s!
There are new gamer stats out. It looks like adult women have past up teenage boys! Finally! (via The MarySue)
I totally geek out over a cool kinetic statue so I just had to kick off this week’s Geeky Links with this one I found over at BoingBoing!
Engadget has an article on Adjustable Strength Metals. How is that not cool?
Ok, I had been hearing how funny this was all week so I had to go get it! Adam Savage said on Twitter that if he would have known that it was going to be so big he would have pushed it further;).
The Nerdist is getting a BBC America show based on his podcast! (via The Hollywood Reporter)
Lina at Girls Read Comics Too has a great piece called Female Friendship: Image Not Found?
I found this at the Nerdist!
Ifanboy has a great piece on the Top 5 Superhero Prisons. The art is just gorgeous!!!
Bitrebels have 8 tips on feeling awake without caffeine. Maybe I am the only geek who needs the help;).
Mental Floss has a Big Bang Theory quote quiz! What did you get? (I missed 2;)
So I have a few, very interesting geeky links for this week!
Starting off, did you hear that NBC passed on David E. Kelley’s Wonder Woman? After the whole costume snafoo, I am not all that surprised. But I think someone will pick up at least the pilot. (Entertainment Weekly)
How does “optical multi-touch force field” sound to you? It sounds awesome to me!!!! Engadget has a great article and video on it!!! (What? To many exclamation marks? 😉
Boingboing has a great R2D2 trashcan! It is a total kick!
Who says that science isn’t pretty;)? This is a picture of the foot and mouth virus. Did you know that it is only contagious for 2 days? (via New Scientist)
How does a $25 computer sound to you? Game developer, David Braben, has developed one. It lives on a usb stick and is designed to use in schools. Super cool! (Geek.com)
I know that I am not the only person who is very interested in Portal 2! It seems to be the hottest new game! Check out the Xbox 360 review! (via The Married Gamers)
Do you remember the Smithsonian Museum asking about the games that everyone thought should be in the museum!!! They have posted the 80 winners! Did your make the cut? I love that Donkey Kong and Pac-man are on the list! I think it is fitting that Portal found a spot too! (via Smithsonian)
Check out the best Tetris game ever! (Geek Mom)
It looks like there is a motion controller for pc gamers!!! Woot! (GizMag)
It looks like Enders Game will be made into a live action film. Let me rephrase, the rights have been acquired. Â I wonder if it is going to be shelved for a while or if they will make it quickly? (The Mary Sue)
Gotta love love Perdue’s world record Rube Goldberg machine!
Well, there is a new lawsuit in the geek world. Apple is suing Samsung for copying the iPad and iPhone. (Engadget) Is Apple ramping up to sue Google? I hope not because that make life complicated and more expensive!
The Nerdist has a great piece on Doctor Who’s Sarah Jane in memory of Elizabeth Sladen, who passed away this week.
So I can’t be the only one who wants to know about the new Nintendo console, right? Nintendo’s star designer lets out some of the details!!! (via Video Game Writers)