The new object is larger than Pluto and even further out, but astronomers are debating its potential planet status (as well as that of Pluto). Read the full story.

While I wasn't overly thrilled with Tiger, but it seems like some of Steve Jackson's complaints -- particularly dealing with Spotlight -- are off base. He says Spotlight's too slow on his G4 PowerBook, but even on my iBook G3 it moves along at a brisk pace. Read the full story.

Discovery arrived safely at the station, and now the crew is carefully examining the orbitor for signs of damage. Meanwhile, the rest of the fleet has been grounded until NASA can resolve an issue with a huge chunk of foam that fell of the external fuel tank during launch. Read the full story.

Awesome. Read the full story.

Interactive text games -- similar to the legendary Zork -- are staging a comeback thanks to the iPod and cellphones. Read the full story.

My quest to create widget-based role-playing game utilities for Mac OS X's Dashboard is proceeding slowly, but I am making progress. With any luck I should have the first working widget in about a week for folks to try out.

Thoughts on political opportunism and the Grand Theft Auto "Hot Coffee" fiasco. Read the full story.

Michael Stackpoole stops by to chat with the guys while they drink beer brough by another guest: a listener named Paul. Included is the usual hodgepodge, including regular features, ramblings about Canada and podcasting, and a discussion of Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars. Read the full story.

Good news abounds in Radio Active #12, which includes an announcement about a change in my day job that will let me walk to work. Really. It's also got an announcement about the Atomic Swindlers contest winners and the happy news that Radio Active has joined the ranks of The Science Fiction Podcast Network. It's not all chat though -- there's also a short review of the Xbox version of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II as well as a review of Stephen King's very un-King-like horror novel From a Buick 8.

Like the proverbial cobbler who's kids go shoeless, I've been neglecting Nuketown's technological underpinnings for the last few months, focusing more on cool stuff like getting Radio Active out than mucking around with the lingering Cascading Style Sheet errors.