I never played Space: 1889, but when I saw this brief on 20by20room.com, I had to check it out. Basically, these are "full-cast audio adventures" record to CD and set in a world in which man went into space in the 1800 using the sort of "fantastic science" seen in the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells and Jules Verne. Looks pretty cool. Read the full story.

Want to reduce the national debt? How about this for a radical concept: instead of increasing tax rates, why not decrease spending? Read the full story.

When the mainstream sees Grand Theft Auto, they see mindless violence, rampant mayhem, and destruction without purpose. When gamers look at it though, they see something different: freedom to explore. With my new Dark City campaign, I'm trying to capture that freedom in a pen-and-paper role-playing game.

Matt Snyder (of 20by20room.com fame) recently posted a RPG meme topic to his blog. In it, he poses 15 questions about people's gaming experiences. Here are my answers.

Joss Whedon's announced that Serenity -- the big-screen version of his short-lived series Firefly -- is now being released in September instead of April. He says the movie had too much competition in April (or words to that effect) and that the September move would give it more visibility. Read the full story.

This is why we need private industry involved in manned space flight: innovative ideas that reduce the cost of getting into (and staying in) orbit. In this case, it's an inflatable space module designed for human habitation. Read the full story.

Dissecting the charity pretensions behind the Band Aid reunion. Read the full story.

The bill -- which needs Senate approval -- would regulate suborbital flights. On the plus side, it would prevent the FAA with going nuts on pilot and passenger safety issues, while rightly protecting the non-involved public from having a spaceship crash into their house. Democrats had tried to add safety rules to "protect" passenger pioneers (apparently by making sure that the regulator burden killed the industry, thus making sure no one could die -- yes, that's sarcasm). Read the full story.

There's nothing quite like spending a Saturday playing nothing but board games. That's what the guys in my gaming group did this weekend, starting around 10 a.m. on Saturday and playing through until nearly 2 a.m. Sunday.

Is your home wireless network secure? If not, read this article, which talks about how to go about locking down your network. Read the full story.