Ken Newquist “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” That’s one of the great opening lines in speculative fiction — or hell, any kind of fiction. It immediately evokes mystery, drama, adventure and an entire Old West mythology. It doesn’t merely tug at the mind — it rends. It compels. It forces … Read more
A review of Alderac’s d20-based Stargate SG-1 Roleplaying Game.
Warcraft III is a real-time strategy game in which players take on the role of one of four factions in a bid to save — or damn — reality from a demonic invasion. The game’s divided into three modes: story (single player), customized game (single player) and multi-player. In story mode there are four thematically-linked … Read more
iBook Power Cords are Pretty: iBooks and PowerBooks ship with power cords that have small lighted disks at the end that plugs into the Mac. This disk glows orange if the computer is charging, and green if it’s at full-power. StarGirl’s recently become obsessed with this disk, and is now aggressively trying to grab hold … Read more
In 1999/2000, an e-mail hoax surfaced claiming that a man in Hawaii died after being exposed to rat urine in the back room of a supermarket. Although it offered good advice — always wipe off your soda can before drinking from it — the content’s were false. The hoax has gained a few paragraphs since … Read more
Ogre Cave (www.ogrecave.com) is a multi-person blog offering news and commentary about speculative fiction gaming in its myriad incarnations, from board games to role-playing games to card games. The site’s updated several times a week (and occasionally, several times a day) with short news updates, such as White Wolf Games lawsuit trying to stop Sony’s … Read more
About four months ago, my faithful iBook began having problems. When I’d lift the laptop’s screen, it would fade to black, and would stay that way unless I kept it at exactly the right angle. A few weeks after the problem began, the right angle disappeared, and the screen stayed dark. A search at www.macintouch.com … Read more
All through my high school career and a good chunk of my college one, I spent a fair amount of time questing for the soundtrack to the movie 2010. I finally got it in my sophomore year (1992), when my girlfriend at the time found it for me in a CD store up in State … Read more
Over the last decade or so of my professional life, I’ve had the displeasure (and occasionally terror, frustration and a bunch of other un-nice words) to work with a program called Quark Xpress. For those of you fortunate enough not to have had to deal with the program, Quark is a pagination program — it’s … Read more
The recent spate of viruses and worms to hit the net — notably Sobig, Blaster and Mimmail — have once again proven that people need to keep their antivirus programs current, their computers patched, and a skeptical and wary on any unexpected (or even expected) e-mail they receive. It’s also shown that the major anti-virus … Read more