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Welcome to LesbianGeek, your home for all geek grrl news, be it science-fiction, gadgets, RPGs (tabletop), Anime, Comics and more. LesbianGeek is sister site to LesbianGamers.com--the site for all your Lesbian Gamer news and gossip (yes they do Xbox, Nintendo Playstation and all that guff).

We realized that a lot of lesbians love video games, but even more adore gadgets, sci-fi, tabletop RPG, anime, comic books and the realm of the geek (and we use that term affectionately!). This is your lesbian geek home on the net.

       

Rin's Anime Column - Intro & Strawberry Panic

Anime fans or those just getting into anime, we've got our very own anime specialist on hand in the form of the lovely 'Rin'. She'll be bringing us her regular column 'Rin's Anime Column - Lily Colored Lenses', which will be full of anime news and reviews with a lesbian slant.

We'll let Rin herself explain what the column name means, unless you anime aficionados have already worked it out. This first column looks at 'Strawberry Panic' and gives you an in depth review of the story and characters.

CHECK IT OUT HERE!

Tim Buckley Interview - Ctrl-Alt-Del

Ctrl-Alt-Del creator Tim Buckley has kindly taken part in a Q&A for us here at Lesbian Geek and sister site Lesbian Gamers. Buckley is the talented mastermind behind popular webcomic 'Ctrl-Alt-Del' and 'The Sillies'.

If you'd like a little insight into what Buckley thinks about the recent furore over the miscarriage storyline he ran, or how he came to include a female gamer as a regular in his webcomic (yay him!!), this interview is for you. He also tells us who he'd turn gay for (since this is the question we usually end Q&A's on, Rove style).

Full Interview with Tim Buckley HERE.

Empathy comic - Cool stuff

Empathy is a comic by the rather talented Vinson and Alisha. The central protagonist of the comic is Sydney Quinn, she's a converse wearing lesbian  who gets into all manner of misadventure. Artist and writer of Empathy Alisha states "The converse are the first clue to Sydney's sexual orientation (because what kind of lesbian are you if you don't have converse? Come on ladies! All the cool lesbians are doing it!)". Well I'm not sure if I'm cool, but I have Converse sneakers.

Check out Empathy HERE and we suggest you do! Also be sure and take a look at one of the panels in issue one (page twelve) to see just what kind of websites the rather cool Sydney Quinn visits in her web surfing time.

Thanks Alisha.

Google Lively Lesbian Gamers & Geek

Google Lively has launched and we've been playing around with it for a little bit and have a few thoughts. We've also set up a room, which assuming the embed code it gives you works, will be after the jump in this very post. We'll be popping in from time.

Lively is a sort of Second Life for Google and it works in your browser. Mac users, there's no support for you guys yet, it's Windows Vista/XP only at the moment. It's simple to download and setup. You can customize your avatar, though how much choice you get depends on the avatar you choose.

If you're feeling bored, why not give Google Lively a shot (you'll need a Google account email), you might like it, either for a short while - we think the novelty might wear off - or the long term. Our Lesbian Gamers / Geek Coffee House after the jump.

IKEA Hacks - Change up your IKEA guff

If there's is one huge yellow and blue building a lot of lesbians like to enter it is of course IKEA. It seems also that lesbians love to work in IKEA, at least in the three major stores at each side of the globe I've frequented from time to time. That is why we found this site of interest.

IKEA Hacker is a site dedicated to changing and modifying IKEA furniture. There are some truly ingenious things at the site including an IKEA MameBook gaming table which might be of interest to our sister site Lesbian Gamers.

If you like the idea of getting more use out of some old IKEA stuff, give this site a look, it's very cool.

Fracker bike - BSG Frackers mama

Fracker bike, sounds like something you'd scream if you got a puncture on a lonely rain soaked road doesn't it, but it isn't it's actually a Japanese push bike. Yeah we know, there's been a fair bit of BSG lately here at Lesbian Geek, but we saw this and thought 'what the frak?'

The 'Frackers Mama' is a bike made in Japan for parents. It comes with a child seat attached and has the usual bike type guff, like gears, and wheels... and things. Maybe Viper pilots use this when they take to the streets... who knows. Either way we thought it was funny.

via [dwt]

Cylon sex change - miniature fact!

Sex changing cylons, what the hell? I was at GenCon Oz yesterday - which on a sidenote was a waste of time, the images on their website are very misleading, it was tiny!! Not worth the entrance fee - anyways, I picked up a few of the Battlestar Galactica MiniMates I didn't have when one particular package caught my eye.

I include said package after the jump. I do believe it is proof that the MiniMates cylons can alter physical form and even gender. You read it first here folks.... imagery of wonder after the jumperoo, along with some Gencon complaints....

Do they really exist...

Geekdom covers many facets and one of them may well be an interest in the unknown. For this reason we’ve decided to post part of an email we received at LesbianGeek HQ from a woman who doesn’t wish to be named.

Oooh it’s all very clandestine isn’t it, and stranger still seems to hint at the fact she’d met someone some goth geeks might wish to meet. All will become clear in the first of our ‘I knew this woman’ series of posts.

Now if only someone would send us some Tru:Blood so we could check it out for ourselves....
Full story after the jump....

The Middleman geek TV

Wendy Watson is a geek. She's the female lead in The Middleman, a show by ABC Family that is sort of like a weird cross between Doctor Who and B. J. Fletcher: Private Eye. Wendy Watson is played by Natalie Morales, who is sort of like a cross between Rosario Dawson and Spencer from South of Nowhere.

Whether you'll like The Middleman is a good question, it's very camp, covered in cheese and has cheap special effects. If you like Doctor Who and the wit of something like 30 Rock or Buffy, you might want to give The Middleman a shot.

DS Star Wars Stylus - Pointy geek dream!

DS Lightsaber stylus... OMFG... sorry but can you believe these things? They're official Nintendo DS styli and they're Star Wars Lightsabers that actually light up! These little lovelies are listed on Amazon.com and are ready for Pre-order, to be released on Jul 31, 2008.

There's also a three stylus set that doesn't light up and when you think about it, is actually more user friendly, just not as cool. This post is gaming geeky we're crossing it over with sister site LesbianGamers.com, so if you're over there, don't worry, you are seeing double, but it's not a mistake. Now, where's my credit card....