The International Consumer Electronics show came to an end less than a week ago, and Boxee seemed to steal the spotlight both on the show floor and in awards...

This week at CES Unveiled, a company called Power Mat technologies created a lot of buzz around a product designed to charge mobile devices "wirelessly."...

Have you ever played a dating sim where your character wanders around aimlessly among a sea of impossibly-large breasted anime figures? If your answer to...

It tears through the skies at staggering speeds, completing a flight around the earth in less than two days at a grueling 600 miles per hour. Sporting...

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I am sick of the bar scene.

I never thought I would see this day. Five years ago, I was terrified to step into a nightclub. Two years...

Help...

SuicideGirls has a new app for the iPhone called Seduce a SuicideGirl

Meet...

(This is a continuation of a series of articles on the fundamentals of conversation. The first one is here.

There is temptation--especially when you'’re single and lonely--to think of the single, lonely people as the only ones with romantic woes.

When I was...

In every new relationship there are moments of truth. They are small moments. Many of us don’t even recognize them or even remember them after they’ve passed.

Today we're going to get a little controversial. That's right, we’re going to talk about the C-word.

The C-word gets thrown around a lot. It used to...

On New Years Day, 2000, NYPD raided an underground bunker and uncovered a human experiment. Was it a cult? Was it art? Was it the future?

They found...

Holy crap, guys!! The San Diego Comic Con schedule is finally up. And man, it’s chock-full of...

HEY KIDS!! OctEgon here. I’ve been itching for an excuse to work on a monthly column on everybody’s favorite alternative softcore art-porn electronet...

Death is back in style. Just ask blogger and scholar Ben Abraham, who's currently...

Greetings Earthlings and welcome to our second...

We love the content of our games: the characters, the environments, a great...

Before I go on a tear about this bizarre new game Blueberry Garden, we should chat...

I discovered that I’ve encountered many things in my life without knowing their names. When I was in college I dated a cutter. I didn’t know he was a “cutter”...

A few years ago a friend was showing me his tattoos at a geeky event I organized.

I'm no expert on superhero comics. But in the pile of comics in our living...

It’s a cliché – when life gives you lemons – make lemonade. In my case, a friend had an '83 Toyota Supra that had seen better days. But rather than take...

It's week three and we're still in the "getting to know each other" phase,...

The...

We're on the playground, a pack of girls and boys, huddled around a fortune...

Welcome to the first monthly recap of Science and Technology news, which we’ve imaginatively called Science Digest 1.0.

With Arthur C. Clarke's...

Since I saw Star Trek a little over a week ago, I’ve struggled to write an adequate review of the movie, and what it meant to me, as someone who...

No one, but no one, is sexier than a spy -- no one, that is, except a female...

One thing that makes us geeks is the hive mind that we share. Hardcore opinions run through our consciousness like the stripe on a skunk. Star Wars...

At the end of this month, I'm going to Detroit for a small ubergeek convention called Penguicon. I'm on eleventy million...

Oh, Peter Sagal. Has thou forsaken us?

"To put it succinctly, looking back, I wish I had spent less time learning Elvish in order to teach it...

Those wacky Japanese are at it again with their love...

While all D&D characters begin as a collection of numbers (on paper, my Eladrin Avenger is 14,12,14,14,16,12) those numbers don’t mean anything without...

In times like these, you would think that now wouldn't be the best time to try to sell a vintage comic book, especially one as rare as "Action Comics No.

I have a strange fascination with servants. I’m not saying this as a blue-blooded person who thinks that the “help” are quaint. I’m fascinated with them...

I divide my time between two towns that I call home, Boston, MA and Charleston,...

Years ago, I had a conversation with my son about my record collection, and he couldn’t believe that we used to put records in crates that were heavy and...

The biggest story at New York Comic Con turned out not to be. I didn't hear a single fan whining that the headlining guest, J. Michael Straczynski, had...

President Barack Obama is a nerd. A geek. A dork.

Last March, he said:

I...

Long before he was the most dangerously incompetent governor California has ever had, Arnold Schwarzenegger was the biggest action superstar on the planet,...