Ken Newquist Somewhere in America, someone is flashing their high beams at a car with their lights off … invoking sudden death as gangbangers unleash a hail of bullets into their car, or so a hoax email would have us believe. In truth, there is no such crime being committed, not today, and not in 1993 when … Read more
As a whole, Geek Nation isn’t the healthiest group of people around. We eat too much junk food, we sleep too little, we work too much on computers, and we almost never exercise. That’s the perception, and looking around at my friends and myself, I think there’s a lot of truth to it. I for … Read more
The big news this week is about the new Nuketown web site and some of the content that’s soon to grace its Web pages. Balancing out the self-congratulatory ramblings and pleads for comments is a review of the Battlestar Galactica Season 2 Soundtrack, including several tracks from the CD courtesy of LaLa Land Records. There’s … Read more
Science fiction writer Cory Doctorow turns the conventional wisdom that pirated SF novels are bad for the industry in his Locus Magazine column “Science Fiction is the Only Literature People Care Enough About to Steal on the Internet”. He raises two major points: 1) that the economy, as it has in the past, is changing … Read more
I’m working on my latest Knights of the Dinner Table “Summon WebScryer” column, and have decided to return to the Eternal Well of Podcasting for a third time. Normally I don’t like to keep hitting the same topic, save for my various “GM/Player Tools” columns, but in this case I think it does a service … Read more
A few months ago I picked up Animal Crossing: Wild World for the Nintendo DS, partly because I’d heard good things about it, partly because its a kid-friendly game I can play with my daughter, and partly because I’m always looking for games for my DS that are different from the norm. What surprised me … Read more
Historically I’ve ignored video blogs as I almost always have more time to listen to shows than watch them. That changed when NeutronLad was born, and I now find myself up at 3 a.m. with nothing but bad infomercials and reruns of SportsCenter to keep me company. Yes, yes, I know there’s Tivo, but we don’t … Read more
After six months of hard work, a year’s worth of speculation, and a decade’s time spent on the Web, the new Nuketown is online. The redesigned site features a new look that evokes earlier iterations of the ol’thermonuclear burg, while updating it with a slightly glossier feel. New features abound on the site, which is … Read more
Nuketown Radio Active returns after a month-long, baby-induced hiatus with news that NeutronLad 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: … Read more
NeutronLad 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 … Read more