Star Trek: The Next Generation turns 20 this year, and I'm working on a special documentary for the obligatory DVD box set. It's been really fun and cool...

According to a magnificent feature at 1Up.com, forty years ago this week, Ralph Baer...

Just before the end of Spring break a few weeks ago, my wife and I took our kids camping for a few days. I'm not the biggest fan of camping, but we've done...

About a week ago, I fired up last.fm as I sat down to work, and it started playing a station "based on music similar to Belle...

As I sat down to put together this week's Geek in Review, I was faced with a choice: scream and rant and rave and foam at the mouth for two thousand words...

There's this great xkcd that illustrates how you can start reading about the Tacoma Narrows Bridge at Wikipedia, and...

When I was in high school and started seriously gaming, my friends and I played different games in different locations. One guy's mom was a Crazy Christian,...

I first played NES on a department store display in 1986. It was in a place called Zody's, which in the mid-80s preceded and was then made obsolete by Target.

Some people whistle while they work; I listen to music. Depending on where I’m working, I’ll listen to iTunes or Amarok,...

I'm not a huge fan of monopolies. As a consumer, and as a creator, I want to have as many choices and options as I can for interacting with content and...

In Part I of this turgid tale, WILLIAM FUCKING SHATNER told your humble narrator, "I'd never let...

If you're a longtime reader of my blog, you know that I refer to the first bald captain of the Enterprise as WILLIAM...

When I first tried Linux around 1995, it was nearly as user-unfriendly as Windows ME. The fonts were ugly, connecting to the Internet -- at a blazing 56k,...

I don't remember the first SF book I read, but I can clearly recall the first SF book I read that made a serious impression on me: Ringworld. As...

12:05 PM on Wednesday is typically the highlight of my week, because it represents the longest amount of time between the publishing of the Geek in Review...

I was born in 1972, and came of age in the 1980s, which means that I am of the video game generation. Though my family started with the Odyssey2 before...

When I was younger and had a level of disposable income that was inversely proportionate to my level of serious responsibility, I was a major comic book...

The friendly local game, comic or music shop is an endangered species. Here's why we should work hard to save them.

I walked up to the register...

“Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology”
-John Tudor

In the early 90s, I walked...

I am in Las Vegas right now for the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show, taping a couple of shows for InDigital, and...