If you're still bitter about Greedo shooting first (and honestly, who isn't?) check out this site. Read the full story.

A review of the newly-released soundtrack for the Lovecraft-inspired, 80s-era horror movie. Read the full story.

While I know some may balk at this, I think revisiting the characters 10 years later makes sense (though in a sense, haven't we been revisiting them in every movie since the original?) Read the full story.

There's one thing that Bush and Kerry can agree on: 527s must go. So much for free speech in America. Read the full story.

There's an old internet rumor going around that claims a film depicting Jesus and his followers as gay men is going to be released. It's not true. Read the full story.

In Part 1 of this column, I gave an overview of Monte Cook's Diamond Throne campaign setting for Arcana Unearthed and talked about the sort of adventures I'd like to run there. In Part 2, I talk about the races and classes I'd use to achieve the goals set out in the first column.

One of the themes that Monte Cook specifically lays out in Arcana Unearthed is the concept of free will. He writes on page 4:

Although chance and fate seem to guide one's life at times, Arcana Unearthed assumes a world where freedom of choice is more important than the unknown whims of fortune or the predestined plans of importal beings. Characters choose to become mojh, spyrtes, or rune children. Oathsworn choose their own oaths and fulfill them because they want to. Champions pick their causes, totem warriors choose their totem spirits, and witches decide their witchery manifestations for themselves. Characters witching to become great warriors can select the path of unfettered or the warmain.

They're calling the new planet a "Super Earth" because while it has a rocky surface, it's several times larger than our home world. Read the full story.

Take a few dozen characters from numeorus game systems, mix them up in a folder, have players randomly pick characters, and then try and run a game based on the results. That's the Rock Soup RPG in a nutshell. Read the full story.

Scientists are trying to puzzle out how chemicals from the impact of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 have migrated to radically different parts of the planet's atmopshere. Read the full story.

"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads." Read the full story.