Thoughts about Nuketown's upcoming Monster Week extravaganza leads off Episode #49 of Nuketown Radio Active as I discuss about the movies I want to review and ask listeners for suggestions. With the monsters out of the way, I talk about my progress on the geek fitness front and my experiences registering for GenCon 2007. In Netheads, I take a look at the upcoming SimCity game for Nintendo DS, suggest folks check out the Dire Cafe social networking site, ramble on about Pirate solitare, and discover a Geek Dad Blog at Wired.com. Finally, this week's review is the board game Catan for Xbox 360, a computerized version of the classic German board game Settlers of Catan.

The first day of GenCon registration was a frustrating, aggravating experience that took an hour and a half to complete, with most of that time spent trying (and failing) to "check out" and purchase my events. I'd be astounded by just how badly registration behaved … if I hadn't heard how it took hours to complete registration last year. Instead, I'm just disappointed by a process that clearly needs some quality time with some load-testing specialists.

Discovery Channel has Shark Week. I want Nuketown to have a Monster Week. I thought about doing this last summer, but simply didn't have the time with Luke having just been born. This time around though, I really want to due it.

The idea is that for one week, Nuketown will be all monsters, all the time. I'll have written reviews of seven classic modern era monster movies, some editorials on what makes a good monster movie, reviews of a monster book or two, links to monster goodness around the web, a DVD-style commentary track for one lucky film, and perhaps an "Actual Play" session featuring adventurers battling some monstrous horror using the Savage Worlds rules. It'll be an homage to the creature features of old ... but focusing on flicks released after 1975.

The demise of Dragon and Dungeon magazines captures the front page of Geek Gazette's June/July edition as editor M. Scott editorializes on the wisdom of ditching print for an all-online edition … and charging for said edition. Also included in this edition are reviews of Spider-man 3 and Ghost Rider, a rundown of fan film web sites, a discussion of radio shows, a preview of the Mutant Epoch science fiction RPG, and thoughts on how to start your own hobby shop. Download the issue from the Geek Gazette home page.

Cory Doctorow's posted some thoughts on how to deal with the trolls that inevitably show up in online forums and proceed to sow chaos, poison and discord among a previously happy community. It's partly in response to Tim O'Reilly's suggestion that we have an official "Bloggers Code of Conduct" establishing rules for posting comments to a site (such as no anonymous posting) designed to prevent trolls from getting a foothold.