Ken Newquist I managed to take a break from my ongoing home improvement efforts and record a podcast! This one opens with an announcement about Radio Active’sFinding Serenity book contest, and then launches into reviews of the OgreCave Audio Report, the Librivox audio book project, and Edge of the Edge podcast. The show wraps up with a … Read more
A List Apart has redesigned their Web site, and I’m liking the new and improved version. The new take is less constrained than the previous incarnation, and allows the site to spread out across more of the browser screen (the previous versions seemed designed for 640 px wide screens, which led to some very long, … Read more
Snopes debunks a new myth that Katrina refugees arriving in Utah sparked off a crime wave. Read the full story.
Back when I was a freshmen in high school, scrambling to class while clutching my Dungeons & Dragons rule books closely to my chest, one of my favorite movies was Labyrinth. In an era long before Lord of the Rings or the Chronicles of Narnia had been filmed, in which the fantasy also-rans Willow and … Read more
The third of the weekly shows gets underway with a short review of the sci-fi western movie Serenity and then takes a look at two gaming podcasts: Pulp Gamer and Dice Make Bonk. This week’s book review is The Great Book of Amber which collects all ten books of Roger Zelazny’s excellent Chronicles of Amber … Read more
My gaming group is comprised of mid-twentysomething-to-mid-thirtysomething gamers who love role-playing, who enjoy delving deep into the intricacies of a plot, running down leads, fleshing out a setting, and generally immersing themselves in the campaign. Yes, there’s hacking, and yes, there’s slashing, but we’re just as likely to spend a night doing nothing but role-playing. … Read more
Show #16 features news about the Radio Active theme song (well, news that we’re looking for one), a look at the Yog Radio Podcast, some thoughts on hotdogs, buns and the free market, and a comparison of the similarly themed (and similarly mediocre) new science fiction series Invasion and Surface. Getting the Podcast Download the … Read more
By now, most geeks know that Serenity — the movie based on Joss Whedon’s failed scifi series Firefly is being released on Friday. The rest know … but wish everyone else would shut up about it. We’re obsessed with Firefly, worshiping at the altar of Whedon like crazed cultists clad in brown and cursing in … Read more
If you are looking for photos of the 2005 flood, please read this entry — The Editor The Delaware River flooded its banks after the remnants of Ivan — combined with another storm — dumped a huge amount of rain on the Lehigh Valley. Sue, Jordan and I walked down town to snap a few … Read more
Looking back through the archives, I was stunned to see that I hadn’t written one of these little gaming wish lists in months, since way back in March 2005. I think that’s do to a couple of factors — for one, I got a heck of a lot of gaming stuff for Christmas, and its … Read more