A review of the switcher-friendly Mac Mini. Read the full story.

A private, non-profit space venture is seeking to search for extrasolar planets by taking data from telescopes and distributing it to people's computers. Those computers then crunch the data looking for potential planets, a la SETI@home. Read the full story.

Firefox's marketshare growth slowed in February, but it's still managed a .74 increase (as upposed to its full percentage point increases in November and December). Hopefully they'll be able to maintain the .5 and higher rates -- I'd love to see Firefox at 20 or 30 percent, which would do a lot to compel Microsoft to hold to Web standards. Read the full story.

A review of the new two-disc collection of Luc Besson's very weird sci-fi epic. Read the full story.

When I launched Nuketown's latest design in June, I consciously switched it away from an "issue-based" model in which content was published on a set schedule, to a blog-like model, in which content was published when I felt like it. The goal, on my end, was to relieve some of the self-imposed stress of trying to meet a deadline, while simultaneously making the ol'thermonuclear burg more timely by posting every few days.