Burt Rutan talks about his company's famous suborbital flight, his difficulties with regulation, and the future of the private spaceflight industry. Inspiring stuff. Read the full story.

I love my Macs, but I know they can be a little frustrating for the uninitiated, particularly those who come to the platform from Windows with absolutely no experience on the Mac. My goal with this blog entry is to help ease the transition a bit by addressing some of the frustrations that I've seen Mac neophytes rant about.

Why hackers are returning to the Macintosh (and yes, that's a good thing). Read the full story.

Radio Active #3 is finally available for download. I'd finished most of the production last week, and foolishly thought I'd be able to work on it over the weekend. Why I thought this--given that my daughter's birthday party was Saturday, and Easter was Sunday--I have no idea.

I decided to catch up on my podcasts today, and spent this morning's commute listening to a few of my favorite podcasts, as well as trying out something new.

It's been a long time since I did one of these columns, mostly because most of my gaming wishes came true for Christmas and I went hogwild during Bastion Press's big January sale, buying five new source books. I've finally worked my way through all those books and the itch to expand my collection is now returning.

The new PlayStation Portable looks and plays great, but Sony crippled its digital media capabilities by forcing people to use it's proprietary memory sticks and UMDs. Read the full story.

The threat of the 809 phone scam--in which individuals try to trick people in the U.S. into calling a seemingly-national, but actually-international phone number--is blown ridiculously out of proportion by an e-mail circulating the net.

Some thoughts on Alderac's official announcement about Spycraft 2.0, set to be released in July 2005. Read the full story.

The latest Apple PowerBooks have built-in sensors designed to sense when the computer's about to crash into something (which is about the only time that Macs crash at all) and puts the computer into collision mode. No big deal, IBM does that with some of their laptops, right? Well hackers have figured out how to harness this tilt-sensor to actually control programs ... as in, tilting the computer forward to skip a track in iTunes, or using it to control a simple game. Read the full story.