On this episode of Radio Active, geek fitness gets a gut check, Nuketown delves deep into statistics, I discover a new path to gaming adventure with the Pathfinder RPG alpha, I try two new online productivity tools and offer my thoughts on how to write a better role-playing game adventure in less time.

Presently on hiatus, the long-running Quantum Muse webzine publishes an eclectic mix of science fiction, fantasy and horror short fiction, with occasional doses of uncategorizable fiction mixed in.

Home of the dire shark, UncleBear.com's been published since the mid-1990s in one form or another. The site's changed a lot over the years, but it remains true to its geek (or rather, post-geek) core, offering essays, commentary, and news about all the things that geeks love. Regular features include reviews of bad movies, the Random News Table collecting game and geek headlines from around the web, and posts about long-running game development projects like the light-weight RPG Imagination's Toybox and the generic espionage game DoubleZero.

A speculative fiction Web and graphic design company. In addition to its design and consulting offerings, GreenTentacles also features speculative-fiction themed articles and news for the speculative fiction professional.

The mother of all gaming conventions, held annually in Indianapolis, IN. Four days of role-playing, card, board and strategy games (as well as just about any other kind of game you can imagine).

A libertarian think tank whose site features daily commentary, news about upcoming events and conferences, audio and video podcasts, research papers and more.