Radio Active Promo: Good Ol’Fashioned Future
The good ol’fashioned future promo for Nuketown Radio Active. Download the promo.
Ken Newquist
Nuketown Redesign Blog Updates
As I mentioned in Radio Active #31, this month I will be transitioning Nuketown from its current configuration to a new, Drupal-based content management system and a shiny new layout. To avoid having to maintain two sites while I migrate the database from one to the other, I will not be making any updates to Nuketown for the next week to two weeks.
All will not be quiet however. If you want to track the progress of the migration, please read my Atomic Age blog over on Blogger, which will be updated almost daily. Look there for announcements about the second round of beta tests, screen shots of the latest versions, and quasi-technical rundowns of problems remaining and solved. Comments and feedback via the blog or Nuketown’s own feedback form are welcome and appreciated!
Muddling through X-Men 3’s Final Stand
When Bryan Singer left the X-Men franchise to direct Superman Returns, I couldn’t help but feel a little dread. The first X-movie got off to an uneven start (mutagenic wave? killing off Senator Kelly?) but was ultimately satisfying. X-Men 2 succeeded on all fronts, evoking the comic books, introducing new characters, and telling a satisfying … Read more
Radio Active #31: Geek Moms, Summer Reading List, X-Men 3
The podcast opens with the old X-Men cartoon theme song in honor of X-Men 3: The Final Stand and the launches into a review of geek mom and geek parenting web sites. There’s no fiction review this time around, as I’m still slugging my way through George R.R. Martin’s A Feast for Crows but I … Read more
Welcome to the New Burg, Same as the Old Burg
The Nuketown redesign picked up pace this weekend as I finally sat down and focused on it for a couple of hours. In the process I wrestled the new site’s visual design into place, ending up with a fusion of the current blog-like look and the experimental magazine-still site I was playing around with. If … Read more
Responding to The Karaoke Transcripts
In early to mid-May, Berin Kinsman posted a series of thoughtful essays on the nature of geekdom to Uncle Bear. Called “The Karaoke Transcripts” (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Denouement) the essays inspired plenty of intelligent debate, and I contributed my fair share of comments. Since things have been slow at … Read more
Antipodean SF Uncovers the Flip-Side of Flash Fiction
I used to read a lot of webzines, but got out of the habit in the early 2000s when their numbers declined and my free time disintegrated. This month, in addition to striving to read more in general, I’ve specifically attempted to return to my old webzine ways. Antipodean SF features something you don’t see … Read more
Radio Active #30: Zombies, LEGO Serenity, Cell, Jonathan Coulton
Zombies are the topic of the day with Radio Active #30, which features a review of Stephen King’s zombie-novel Cell and Jonathan Coulton’s Thing a Week song “Re Your Brains”. Sites of Note looks at Joss Whedon’s Serenity re-done in LEGOS, applauds All Games Considered on their one-year anniversary, and takes a look at Geek … Read more
DVD Rack, May 2006: Triangulated Clones with a Flightplan
I took a break from watching Nowhere Man on DVD this month and last to get caught up on some movies, including The Triangle, The Island, The Aviator and Flightplan. The Triangle Inspired by the resent arrival of a review copy of The Triangle soundtrack (Amazon), I’ve started watching the SCI-FI mini series on DVD, … Read more
Drupal, Nuketown and You
If you’re wondering why Nuketown’s been pretty quiet for the last few weeks, it’s because I’ve been continuing to work on the beta. I’ve got a design that I like — it needs some tweaking, but it accomplishes my goal of changing up the site enough to be different while retaining enough for it to … Read more