A e-mail from alleged Cracker Barrel founder “Junior Johnson” is circulating inboxes, promising folks a $50 gift certificate if they forward an e-mail to nine of their friends. It’s a hoax.

I've been using Mac OS X for about three months straight now, long enough to have experienced the extremes of Apple's next generation operating system. I'm running the 10.1 release on my dual USB iBook (the second generation, white-colored low-end Apple Macs) -- it has a 500 mhtz G3 processor and 384 meg of RAM. What follows is a look at what I like -- and don't like -- about the new OS.

My 30th birthday is coming up on the 17th, and that means that I'll probably be hearing the inevitable question:

Life is hell on gaming.

My Dungeons and Dragons campaign's been running for about five years. I've got about 10 active players ranging in age from early 20s to early 30s. Most have girlfriends. About half are married. A few have kids. A few are thinking about kids. All have day jobs and horde free-time like gold-starved dwarves.

A review of the Psionics Handbook, a supplemental rulebook for Dungeons and Dragons that allows characters to unleash the power of their minds.

The restless dead have risen from their graves. Whether because of interstellar radiation, comet debris, toxic pollution, or alien microbes, the undead are staggering down streets and highways, intent on slaying (at best) or devouring (at worst) the living. And some how, some way, the heroes of All Flesh Must Be Eaten must find a way to live another day.

A review of Apple's new iBook laptop computer, as well as a few observations on its OS X operating system.

Nuketowns long hiatus is over. Originally, the hiatus was supposed to end in September, and did in a way. After the atrocities of September 11, I focused on writing about the attacks, and pretty much ignored the nuts and bolts of the site.

Over the last month I've spent a lot of time working on Nuketowns guts, and as a result, the database is finally working the way it's supposed to, automatically building the home page based on the current date. The "index" pages are almost done, and Im working on display options thatll let people sort through the database in all sorts of cool and froody ways.

Notes from the Nuff about Apple's OS 10.1 operating system, Wired's X-Box feature, Yahoo Internet Life's Lord of the Ring's lowdown, and MacAddict's December Mac-fest.

Prometheus is the quarterly newsletter of the Libertarian Futurist Society (