Stuart is entirely too aware of the men with guns all around. But the scary little military man next to him is now smiling beatifically, disarmingly so. He says they will start with “Jump ( Read more... )

The military courier cannot run fast enough with the box in his hands. It has journeyed past mountains, over seas, through the air to reach its destination and the One who caused it to be summoned has just about reached the end of his patience ( Read more... )

Ah, you found us. I can't begin to tell you how pleased we are to finally have another prospective member for our group. I'll be honest, you aren't the first we've invited this year. But you are the first to successfully unravel the salted evidence trail back to us ( Read more... )

I stopped by Peets Coffee for a quick iced latte and you know who I saw sitting there all how-dyo-do friendly like with each other, just sitting there together at a little table having a totally civil conversation ( Read more... )

I am going to assume that you haven't been encased in a solid block of ice for the last year and have therefore heard that there is a pretty significant global economic crisis in full swing at the moment. And probably for a great many future moments as well ( Read more... )

In August 2007, I put out an invitation to a few circles of my acquaintance to participate in a lexicon, a cooperative/competitive game invented by Neel Krishnaswami and played via wiki. If you've ever read Milorad Pavich's Dictionary of the Khazars, it's a lot like that. As a game.

The New Faith of the True Emperor was intended as a dark epic ( Read more... )

"Software Hero", in which you pick a classic piece of software and have to code it in real time on a simple faux computer keyboard. Can you totally shred your way through Adventure for the Atari 2600? Do you have what it takes to get VisiCalc 1.0 written on Expert mode? Grab a second controller for two-player "Pair Programming" play ( Read more... )

Lucasfilm and LEGO building blocks have released a couple of videogame adaptations of the STAR WARS films for the various consoles and desktop systems. Despite having a Playstation 2 (a gift from my brother) I never really felt like cracking it out for use until these happened, at which point I played the crap out of them. Now they're releasing the ( Read more... )