Girl Geek:
Internet trolls
Netiquette: A girl geek's guide to Internet trolling on forums. What is a troll? Here's how not to be one, and what to do if you find trolls under the bridge in your forum. Don't feed the trolls!
Why won't they protect us online?
Cyber stalking: Why are they not doing more to protect us online? A personal experience of abusive emails and other forms of cyber stalking.
Cell phone romance
Technology: Mobiles / cell phones have changed the ebb and flow of teenage romance. They can end relationships, empower shy wallflowers and be used to coerce people into 'sexting'. How much do you love your phone?
RPG Games Guide - part I
RPG Games: How to choose the right RPG game for you. Especially if you're a girl gamer who's moving from games consoles to the table top. It's time to roll that D20..
Pretend to be a time traveller day!
Time travel: December 8th is 'Pretend to be a time traveller' day, so we're telling you in good time. Although you can pretend to be a time traveller every day. Or simply be one.
Battle of the game consoles - controls at the ready!
Game consoles: All market products battle to win the war against their competitors. One of the biggest consumer wars ever is the epic battle between computer game consoles, with Xbox 360, PS3 and the Wii scrabbling to be the best and outsell the rest. Game consoles deathmatch!
How to become penpals
Penpals: Build your letter writing and craft skills with foreign penpals - swap crazy sweets with them (be wary of Denmark they have salty liquorice), send them music and artwork... A penpal makes the world a better place. Here's how to become penpals.
Writer's block
Creative writing: All those who love creative writing eventually encounter the dreaded writer's block. Mistress Geenyus brings you the best creative writing tips out there for curing writer's block - all in 1 article!
Comic Boom - The end of Comics?
Girl Geek: Comics have been leaping out of print and, capes aswirl, onto our cinema screens. With an endless supply of comics to plunder, does CGI and movie fan interest spell the end for comic books?
The NATO phonetic alphabet
Girl Geek: Charlie, Foxtrot, Tango! Using the NATO phonetic alphabet to spell out your name or address over the phone is a thrill tantamount to espionage. Plus you can create your own code words...
Games hitting a cinema near you...
Girl Geek: Computer games like Resident Evil and Silent Hill get turned into films. Movies like, er, Ice Age and Harry Potter become computer games. It's a great big franchise love-in. But are they any good?
Which girl gamer type are you?
Girl Geek: Goddess, Nobody or Equal? Which girl gamer type are you? It depends not only on what you're looking for but who you're playing with in the magical world of gaming...
Anime deathmatch - Subbed vs. dubbed
Anime: It's time for a Sub vs. Dub deathmatch. Ding ding ding! Ooh, it's an age-old issue for foreign film lovers and anime fans - what's better? Watching dubbed anime or anime with subtitles?
Which girl gamer type are you?
Girl Geek: Goddess, Nobody or Equal? Which girl gamer type are you? It depends not only on what you're looking for but who you're playing with in the magical world of gaming...
Byki - learn basic foreign languages online. For free.
Geek: "Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow" - Oliver Wendell Holmes. Zeta was puzzled to discover her friend could suddenly speak Icelandic. Out of nowhere. For no reason at all. So she forced them to show her how they did it.
Film adaptations: Lights, Camera, and turn to Chapter 1
Girl Geek: Ever been to see a film that happens to be based on your all-time favourite book? Ever walked out of the cinema feeling crushed? Are film adaptations quite frankly an abomination?
Life lessons from romance novels
Girl Geek: Reading. It hasn't exactly got the coolest reputation in the world - at least among those not in the know. However, all the sexy girls know that the best aphrodisiac is to saunter into a club wearing not much except a T-shirt that says "So many books, so little time"...
Read this article: Life lessons from romance novels
Reading is the new sex
Girl Geek: Reading. It hasn't exactly got the coolest reputation in the world - at least among those not in the know. However, all the sexy girls know that the best aphrodisiac is to saunter into a club wearing not much except a T-shirt that says "So many books, so little time"...
Real superheroes - Get cape, wear cape, fly!
Girl Geek: Sick of holding out for a hero? Time to don the cape and mask and become a superhero (okay, masked vigilante) yourself. They're all over the television and are always hitting us on the big screen - so, if you can't beat them, join them. Seriously. Mookychick will show you how to become a superhero (okay. Masked vigilante).
Vampire lore in Twilight... Breaking the mould?
Girl Geek: Instead of the familiar garlic/ash/sunlight/silver-fearing vampies of traditional lore, Stephanie Meyer has broken with tradition to present us with a bunch of superhuman sparkle fairies. Is it a premise taken too far... or not far enough?
Is Twilight really a work of fiction - or a voyeuristic fantasy?
Opinion: It's easy to hit back at the idea that the Twilight books are misogynist. Now online communities are taken by storm that it's Stephenie Meyers' very own sexual fantasy... And it's not what's being said, but who's said it...
Is Twilight really a work of fiction - or a voyeuristic fantasy?
The Twilight saga - misogynist? I'm sixteen, not stupid.
Geek Girl: 'Twilight' is popular fantasy fiction for teenage girls: A series of books where a vampire falls immortally in love with a mortal girl. Fantasies aside, would any self-respecting girl truly expect a vampire lover to take her away? And should any self-respecting parents fear it?
Opinion: There's a certain phrase which we're all beginning to hear increasingly often. It's a turn of speech which can send Annis Cordy into a rant so vehement that the only thing that calms her is the thought that her tirade is one step below making snide comments about 'the youth of today'. The phrase? "I don't read".In memory of a cyber buddy
Girl Geek: 
Ruby Mae has spent time honing her craft in a british TV comedy forum. She spent time getting to know the people on that forum, even if she never met them face to face. This piece is in honour of a friend of hers - a friend who died of a heart attack. A friend she never met face to face - but a friend, nevertheless.
Why I Love OWbN LARP
Girl Geek: 
Live action roleplay is probably one of the ultimate forms of geekery. Wendy Withers chats about why she loves dressing up as a crazed artist in 'One World by Night' even more than making Tara and Willow get it on in 'The Sims'...
Hiding in the cyber bushes: Harassment online
Opinion: What would you do if someone would not leave you alone? What about if they started spreading lies about you? What if they went through your mail and your diary? Calling you names? What if this abuse and invasion of privacy was all through your computer?
Eighties toys that seemed a good idea at the time
Girl Geek: You bought them, you re-homed them to your closet, now we remind you of the flash in the pan wonders of yesteryear.
Try telling your teacher your pet rock ate your homework... the nostalgia alone may get you off the hook.
Girl gamers... But what has the gaming industry ever done for us?
Girl Geek: Up until recently, computer and console games were thought of as something monosyllabic teenage boys played, locked away in their rooms. Have they now become something a group of women would enjoy on a girls night in?
Your life... as a video game
Opinion: Ever seen a film or played a computer game and had it act like a filter so you see the whole world that way for a few minutes or hours? Liv tells you how to make the most out of playing your life like a video game.
Once bitten, twice shy: The female werewolf
Girl Geek: 
The pros and cons of female werewolves... do we want to see crazy naked hairy ladies creating havoc on our movie screens? Er, yes...
Female werewolves? I can't have a hairy chest, that's messed up...
Most awesome thing on the internet
Amber plays the old 'type the hell any old thing into google and see what happens' in order to discover if the internet is, indeed, awesome. Oh man, is it awesome. Wait, that last sentence should have had a question mark.
Build a blog kingdom!
Girl Geek: 
Smotlock is not a girl geek. He is clearly a boy (Look! Beard!) but that has never stopped him from exploring words and becoming the despotic king of his own internet kingdom. Smotlock gives you the cardinal rules for building your blog into a worshipped power zone. With great power comes great responsibility....
A new kind of superhero
Girl Geek: 
Superheroes have been back on our screens with a vengeance in the last few years, and we love them to bits but they're getting too dark to function. As Bonnie Tyler said, we need a hero... but what kind of superhero will fit the bill?
Homo textus uber alles
Girl Geek: 
Scientists announce that we have now evolved through mobile phone usage to the point where our thumbs are as flexible as our index fingers, and Magda Knight has a bubble bath.
And there's more...
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