It's the Fourth of July and most American readers are out shedding a tear for our once great country while getting drunk, blowing shit up, and listening...

Last night, my wife and I walked our dogs though our neighborhood shortly after dusk. While we walked up our street, I gasped and pointed at the sky.

“Yeah,”...

Saturday night, I was given the tremendous honor of inducting Gene Roddenberry into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in Seattle. For the three of you in...

I was ten years old in 1982, and came of age at the beginning of the electronic gaming revolution, as toy companies realized there was a lot of allowance...

Last time . . .
The crew got the camera and sound equipment together and loaded it on...

Last week, I went to Paramount to film some host wraps for the Star Trek:TNG DVD documentary, and discovered that the old cliché is true: you can't go home...

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,...