June 1st is

Fans of Knights of the Dinner Table can now get a weekly web-fix while waiting for their monthly editions to arrive. Kenzer & Co. are posting original KODT strips to their Web site three days a week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday).

An e-mail hoax is urging folks to find and delete the harmless "jdbgmgr.exe" file from their Windows-based computers. This self-induced minor labatomy kills the Java Debugger Manager -- which really is represenated by a teddy bear icon -- can cause certain Java applets (small programs in their own right) -- to act buggy.

I got my hands on the revised edition of Star Wars d20 this week, and after paging through it quickly I'm fairly impressed.

Believe the hype. Spider-man is a solid superhero movie that deserves the skyscraping profits its earned since it's opening weekend.

Nothing makes me more nauseous than cries for goverment intervension in order to "Save the Children". The latest effort to promote an ever-more paternalistic government comes from California Democrat Joe Baca, who’s introduced legislation making it a crime to sell graphically violent or sexually explicit video games to kids without parental consent (as reported in this MacCentral article)

On its face, most people will probably agree with this. After all, we wouldn’t want 12 year olds getting their hands on Grand Theft Auto, with all of its over the top violence, car-jacking and other assorted crimes, now would we? I know I wouldn’t want my kids playing it, but as parent, I’d make *sure* my kids weren’t playing it. Not just as my house, but at their friends houses as well. Because hell, that’s what parents do.

Nuketown is closed to fiction submissions. After June 2002, the fiction section will be closing down (although it will live on in the archives) and it is not likely to re-open any time in the near future.