(image) So I was up super early Saturday morning in order to score EDC tickets from a contest on 90.7fm KPFK-Los Angeles* which meant I was able to scoop...

(image) What's the point of a revolutionary new communications and media device if you can't put half naked tattooed girls on it? No Point. So...

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,”...

(image) For as long as I can remember, when it comes to turning science fiction into actual science fact, the go-to source material has been Star Trek.

(image) 9 Reasons Why "Transformers" Will Be a Terrible Movie 1) Michael Bay Why mess around? We both knew he was gonna be on the list. Why bury...

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...

(image) British gamers looking to get their virtual manslaughter on (again) have been given a short, sharp shock by the British Board of Film Classification,...

(image) Net denizens released a collective "Yahooooo!" hours ago when Terry Semel, Yahoo's CEO got a long-overdue foot in his ass. He was...

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...

(image) When it comes to the world of technology, I am not a natural. To me, the Internet is as vast and wondrous and fascinatingly incomprehensible as...

(image) As we sit in front of our computers, adrift in invisible streams of binary code, faced with mountains of information, most of us only rarely give...

(image) [This is a revised version of a story posted earlier today. I took down the original because the crux of the story was based on misinformation.

Last time . . . We headed out of the stage and back past the Hart building. "See that window?" I said. "That used to be Gene's office."...

(image) For Pete's sake, can't you kids stay off of the MySpace for ten minutes? Is that really too much to ask? If you want to talk to your friends...

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...

(image) To promote its upcoming movie, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, 20th Century Fox planned to release 40,000 quarters altered by The Franklin...

(image) I was just cruising through the interwebs, thinking to myself, "my goodness, what a slow news day," and then this story over at Wired...

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...

(image) So, you thought you could hide your affectations? You thought you were being clever signing up for that particularly scandalous website under a...

(image) With all the Star Wars 30th anniversary mayhem taking over the country, science fiction fans might forget that another special anniversary looms...

(image) Anyone with a passing knowledge of super hero comic books for the last 20 or so years knows that, for the most part, female character’s breasts...

(image) I am not ashamed to say that I have learned a great many things about the world over the years from the myriad tales of a young boy and his tiger...

According to a magnificent feature at 1Up.com, forty years ago this week, Ralph Baer became the first person to ever develop and play a computer game hooked...

(image) The term "dark matter," as applied to astronomy, is used to describe -- and I am going to use extremely technical terms here, so please...

(image) A Wii version of Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary is well into development. With this special version of Anniversary, the Wii Remote & Nunchuck...

(image) I hope I don’t pay for this kindness later in life somehow, but earlier today I awoke at the crack of noon to find that I had been invited to participate...

(image) "The La Brea Tar Pits is nothing but tar and bones," our parents used to tell us. But we knew better. When we thought of the bubbling...

(image) Scientists in Australia have recently announced the development of cancer drug that can deliver the deadly medicine directly to the cancer cells...

(image) A new "smart" cap has been developed that will allow physically or mentally disabled people to control a toy car via radio transmissions.

(image) On the eve of Star Wars’ 30th birthday, footage from the making of The Empire Strikes Back has beamed down the net. The documentary is hosted at...

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...

(image) The Internet Really Is A Series of Tubes. Flammable tubes that burn. On the night of May 1st the world’s first hobo-hacker pwned Internet2 from...

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 and Sebastian."...

(image) Welcome to the first article in what I hope will be a weekly feature for the SuicideGirls Newswire where I detail all the wonderful fake things...

(image) When Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in 1963, the possibility of commercial space travel in the 21st century seemed...

Right now every single story on the front page of Digg.com is about the same topic. In fact it's been that way all night as you can see from this screenshot...

(image) Face it Tiger, you just hit the jackpot. This Saturday May 5th you can combine your love of “free” with your love of “stuff.” Happy Free Comic...

(image) Ken Kutaragi, the inventor of the PS3 is dead. To Sony, that is. News of his "retirement" from the company precedes an upcoming report...

(image) Scientists have discovered, for the first time, a planet outside our own solar system that is "potentially habitable," with Earth-like...

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...