Geek Dad

Have a youngling — or younglings — to whom you'd like to impart a bit of your geeky ways? Let Geek Dad ($12) be your guide. Written by Ken Denmead, engineer and editor of Wired's GeekDad blog, this 240-page tome is a collection of geeky projects and activities you can do with your little ones, like launching a video camera with balloons, creating a comic strip, making geeky crafts, and constructing the "Best Slip n' Slide Ever." Just remember: these are projects for you to share with your kids, not for you to tinker with yourself out in the garage.