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This (unemployed) IT consultant used his geek...

I don't want to say that women have been underrepresented in aeronautics in the United States; there have, in fact,...

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It's a lonely world out there -- even surrounded by millions upon millions of other people, there just might not be...

My wife and I are both in our mid-thirties. We have two kids, one of whom is in college, but we must look young, because we still get carded in restaurants,...

Each week, Ariel Waldman serves a tasting of the latest in sex and tech.

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Eric Anderson is a travel agent to the stars--the ones in outer space, that is. If you've got $30 to $40 million and...

Far be it from me to wax romantic about foreign-nationalistic past ideals of bold futurism, but let's face it: the...

In 2006 TokyoPop, the company that popularized manga in America, launched the...

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This month, the emoticon turned 25 -- that's older than me. Does...

Hey, kids: the word of the day is diacetyl.

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So, last week I told you about eldritch horrors from beyond the stars bent on our destruction. The...

When I gave my keynote at Penny Arcade Expo, I wanted to give context to the whole reason we all gathered in Seattle. To do that, I tried to take the audience...

Each week, Ariel Waldman serves a tasting of the latest in sex and tech.

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Space, as we all know by now, is the final frontier. Hence, billion-dollar programs built to go and see and, perhaps...

As you may already know by now, everyone's favorite sleepy deep sea...

As I have long suspected, Howard Phillips Lovecraft's tales of eldritch horrors beyond mortal ken were seeded with...

I love video games as much as many of you do. Hell, I spent the last six months of my life up until my big move west...

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Sometimes, in the name of art and upstanding journalism, we are forced to immerse ourselves in cultures we ourselves...

TRUE FACT: No matter how mundane, or even disagreeable, the product or idea in question is, even the most stalwart...

There is a communications revolution happening right now. It crosses generations, and it scares the absolute shit out of a lot of people who benefit from...

I'm not exaggerating. This is not hyperbole. I'm exhausted and I can't touch, taste or smell, I'm guessing because...

Each week, Ariel Waldman serves a tasting of the latest in sex and tech.

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I don't know if it's something in the pixels or if the constant flow of friend requests are finally getting to some...

When applied in a sufficiently awesome and innovative way, science is one of my favorite things. Not entirely unlike...

What is the coolest thing you could possibly imagine ever in the history of the cosmos?


If, like me, you imagine...

Long before fly DNA became inextricable from that of Jeff Goldblum, there was Wolbachia.

On Thursday, the...

Each week, Ariel Waldman serves a tasting of the latest in sex and tech.

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Recently I was talking with a new-to-social-networks friend of mine about what the hell we're doing with all these...

As a resident of San Diego for the past 10 years, I am proud to bring to the newswire the distinguished lineage of...

If goofy old Marilyn Monroe movies ever taught me anything, it's that being a gentleman's illicit plaything can be...

This last weekend, I delivered the keynote address at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle.

PAX is a huge gathering of gamers of all sorts: table top gamers,...

By now, bitching about the current remake trend in the film industry is like mocking President Bush: it may feel good,...