Geek Girl:
Why I Want to Be a Mermaid
Everyone has wanted to be a mermaid. One girl never gave up her dream. Okay, she may still not BE a mermaid, but...
Instagram | Art or Baa?
Is Instagram art or a sheep in hipster clothing? Do the quirky feet, artsy sunsets and urban scrawls mean anything at all?
How to Tackle Tumblr
As well as being a water cooler for teens, Tumblr is a place filled with the mad, the fantastic, the educational, the inspirational. Find it.
Steampunk Gift Ideas
Here are some nice, mainstream steampunk gift ideas. By mainstream, we mean subgenre, but readily available to those who are more shoppers than makers.
Evolution of Greeting Cards
Greeting cards began to mark life cycles in nature and ward off the vengeful spirits of the New Year...
Top 10 Wrong Unicorns
A unicorn should either be the physical embodiment of rainbows and light or a grizzly horny thing with good PR that only unaccountably chills out in the presence of virgins. We've collected some of our favourite wrong unicorns. Damn you, internet.
25 Of The Best Steampunk Desktop Wallpapers
If you have a PC or laptop, we strongly encourage you to peruse these rather awesome steampunk desktop wallpapers. Please do look at them with your eyes. Take the brass goggles off first.
Mini Mooky Guide to the Anonymous Hacktivists
Anonymous hackers are held to be a bunch of internet trolls hacking popular websites for lulz, but there's a lot more to it. Read our mini guide to Anonymous hacktivists... l33t before we all even knew what it meant.
James Cameron reaches bottom of Mariana Trench
Nearly 7 miles deep, the Mariana Trench is Earth's most alien realm. Film maker James Cameron made history yesterday by being part of the second ever manned vessel to successfully reach it
Top 10 Steampunk Gadgets
The DIY Steampunk ethic means there's a plethora of gorgeous Steampunk gadgets and oddities out there - we choose ten of the best. The Steampunk creed? Be splendid.
Down the rabbit hole - Philosophy and social comment in 'Alice in Wonderland'
Book reviews: You may think that Alice in Wonderland is just a children's tale you happen to take too seriously. Good news - there are more than a couple of reasons to completely justify your obsession with it! And people will be delighted to join you in discussing social issues in Wonderland over tea and treacle...
DC Comics relaunch - no more Uncanny X-Men
DC Comics will relaunch all its titles in September 2011 and cancel the Uncanny X-Men. Well, that's the bathwater gone. Wait - where's the baby?
Appgasm
Welcome to Mookychick's newest comics/zeitgeist column, THESE FILTHY TIMES. Today, comics fiend and man about town Filthy Nevs asks if comics apps are killing the comics industry.
Conceptual Gaming - The Endless Forest
Imagine a 'social screensaver' PC game where your only mission is to explore, play and discover. 'The Endless Forest' is a feat of conceptual gaming.
How to create a fully-rounded RPG character
In RPG or roleplaying games, you'll get the most joy out of a well-developed character and people will start shaping the game around your character, too. Here's how to avoid cliches and create a living, breathing RPG human being!
Trigger warnings: How to keep your blog safe
Many mooks like to keep a little corner of the internet aside for their own blog-esque musings. One mook talks about trigger warnings - ways to spot danger signs if your nice, safe blog is in danger from evil eyes.
Why should you choose an action movie for a date?
Going to a movie is THE tried and tested date activity. But what's a safer bet - action film or rom com? Okay, here's a clue - it's the action movie. For jolly good reasons. Here's why.
Mass Effect - the movie
Mass Effect: the movie has been in the works for nearly a million years. From voice actors to paragon/renegade crossovers, what could the studio do to please the gamers as much as the movie fans?
10 Reasons why real life is not like the movies.
We’ve all seen the films. Girl loses boy; boy finds girl; girl gets boy. Good triumphs over evil; the wicked are punished; and justice serves up her richest trifle for those most deserving. Unfortunately, real life doesn’t follow suit...
Gaming guide to the Xbox
Video games. It's a 'boy thing', right? Not anymore. Girl gamers are picking up the controller and developing the fine art of button bashing. Here's an xbox gaming guide for Jane Eyres yearning for a touch of Black Ops...
Calling John Connor: Rise of the machines
Just how advanced is our world? We've seen the sci-fi movies and absorbed the Japanese poptek culture. Now let's take a look at the futuristic science...
Unconventional romance video games? BRING... IT... ON
Video games are getting increasingly unconventional with their romance. We're allowed to hook up with African Americans, same sex partners, drells and elves. And now Dragon Age 2 may let us get it on with a suave dwarf. Good! Let's crack the glass ceiling!
Superheroes are nerd ecstasy
A well-rounded superhero (and supervillain, for that matter) is ecstasy for nerds. A brooding superhero with persona, philosophy, ethics and worldview? Food for thought. And not just the junk popcorn variety.
Waking early - the heroic minute
Girl Geek: M performs an experiment to wake half an hour earlier each week to see what happens when the world sleeps. There's a classical term for it: The heroic minute..
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?
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"...
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...
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?
For your eyes only - reading for pleasure
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...
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 becoming the despotic king of his own internet kingdom. Smotlock gives you the cardinal rules for building your blog into a worshipped power zone.
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.
What are stars made of?
How big are stars? How big is the universe? How big are we? Let's scoot up above our bodies and our smallness and look at something romantic and life-changing and big, for a change. How do stars live and die and become funny little us?
Déjà vu!
Mind mysteries: Now you see it ... now you see it again! Or did you? The déjà vu experience can be just as confusing as the reports on studies that have been conducted into it. But perhaps we can unravel the mysterious phenomenon!
The book of Face
Geek World: Yep, it's another article on Facebook. Why? Because Facebook, with all its photos, news, comments, tags, applications, instant messaging and fan clubs, could be misused to become 1984 Returning. At first it was a network used by students. Now it's swarming with all sorts of people from all walks of life. Mookychick explains why Facebook is yet another step towards Huxley's Brave New World...
Colour symbolism and meaning - why does colour have meaning?
Geek World: We at Mookychick Towers were wondering why colour has any symbolic properties at all. This idea that black is moody, chic, evil... or that pink is fun and vibrant, or that purple is mysterious, dangerous and mad... WHY?
How to start turning your amateur photos into art
Geek World: Happy snapper photos and MySpace posing shots are the first step. Now it's time to start giving your amateur photos the edge. You don't need expensive equipment to have an artistic approach to photography - you just need to start building your artistic eye.
Outer Space Oddity
Girl Geek: Space is romantic, gothic, omnipresent and... odd. It's really very strange indeed. From dark matter to space cartwheels and impossible planets, space has offered us more beauty and puzzlement than a bag full of unicorn horns.
The mooky guide to mobile broadband
Geek Girl: Mobile broadband. What is it? Is it a good thing? Can you eat it? NO! But it does let you connect to the net on the move. The way things are going, it won't be long before fixed broadband connections become as obsolete as the home phone is heading to be, so better catch up with the future now...
Can you read this? Then we're not all dead...
Geek World: The CERN black hole project: Wow, wouldn't it be nice if each universe has been created by its predecessors' inhabitants reaching a stage of evolution at which they can recreate the Big Bang and thus start the whole thing over again?
Quick guide to the coolest dinosaurs ever to walk this earth
Geek World: Dinosaurs were a dominant species that became puzzlingly extinct (humans, take note). Forget about relationships/jobs/life for a moment and pay tribute to some of the most blood-curdling creatures to ever walk this earth.
How To: Programming 101 for GirlGeeks
Geek World: Coders always get jobs, sometimes in the game industry (awesome), and girl geeks get surrounded by men who look far more handsome than stereotypes suggest and always have something interesting to say. Take your first steps towards becoming a coder.
Basic photography tips for all
Geek World: Who's been disappointed with the final results of a 'great' photo they've taken? Here are a few basic photography tips to bear in mind, whether the images you're capturing be arty or personal.
Photography Tips for Amateurs - and Digital Cameras for Professionals
Geek World: These days almost everyone likes taking photographs. So, most of us could use a few helpful hints and tips. These tips will make your shots look clearer, more attractive and more professional. And we look at some really expensive digital cameras, too.
Girl Gamers and Wii - a revolution?
Gaming used to be a boys' club, but girl gamers have come into their own in the last five years or so. In an attempt to make the real big bucks, Nintendo plan to bag a few more girl gamers with their glorious white Wii. Find out how they plan to entice girl gamers into their snare...
The coolest mobile phone of all time
Mookychick has been on the look-out for the perfect mobile phone, and by Georgio we think we've found it!
Internet memes
Every now and then, some pointless phrase or webpage (a 'meme') will infect a web surfer and start to jump from one mailbox to another. The REAL trick is to start your own. Mookychick shows you how!
Fan fiction - by the fans, for the fans
Book reviews: Whether you love it or hate it, fan fiction is a cult phenomenon. Harry Potter dating Draco? Romping hobbits? Spock and Kirk behaving illogically? Despite the controversy of copyright laws, fan fiction is now so deeply entrenched in internet culture that - for better or for worse - it's truly beyond our control...
Feminist Geek Girl
Girl geeks shall inherit the earth. From girl gaming to gadgets, science and women in technology, we aim to cover the world of geek from a female perspective.
