Dennis Detwieller's Call of Cthulhu inspired, dice-pool powered horror role-playing game is available as a free PDF download.

A team of superpowered government agents seek to protect the United States from threats foreign and domestic. SILVER Agents is run by Berin Kinsman, of UncleBear.com fame, and is presented in a play-by-post format. The game is invitation only, but all are welcome to eavesdrop.

Berin at UncleBear.com is putting together a new gaming podcast project that looks at the intersections of gaming culture. He writes: "The premise is to do a series of interviews between gamers and non-gamers, between gamers of different tastes, or with non-stereotypical gamers". It sounds like a cool project, and sounds like it has the makings of an excellent documentary showing a slice of geek life that could even interest the normals.

A massive index of role-playing games, providing the game's title, its creator, edition, year published, and a brief description. The 1,000+ entries are listed by alphabetica orderl, year, and language.

Nuketown maintains numerous RSS feeds, the two most important of which are the main feed and the podcast feed, which are accessible via the following web addresses:

Nuketown Radio Active returns after a month-long, baby-induced hiatus with news that Lucas Kenneth Newquist has arrived! Things then take a technological turn with a discussion of various tools and Web sites to enhance your geeky productivity.

The podcast is rounded out by a review of the first of the books on my my Summer Reading List: Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street, a graphic novel written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Darick Robertson.

What is the Geek Tree? It's a Christmas tree with a speculative fiction theme. And what's speculative fiction? Speaking broadly, it's a uber-genre comprised of science fiction, fantasy and horror, though in the case of the Geek Tree, it's primarily sci-fi. The tree is re-built annually by Ken Newquist, Nuketown's editor. Questions, comments and suggestions about the Geek Tree can be sent to Ken via this form.

A huge database of calendars published via Apple's iCal program. Science fiction offerings include convention calendars, sci-fi TV schedules, and even a Lord of the Rings calendar with important dates from Tolkien's mythos.

SCIFI.com's official Wiki contains over a thousand entries relating to the speculative fiction genre, and since it's a wiki, you can add entries of your own.

Lucas Kenneth Newquist was born at 6:13 p.m., Wednesday, June 14, weighing 8 lbs. 3 oz. and measuring 22" long. He has a full head of his mother's red hair, and we'll see whether his baby blues turn into his father's blue eyes, his mother's brown, or something in between (like his sister's). Sue and the baby are doing well, and big sister Jordan likes her new baby brother well enough, though she's still advocating for a sister.