Roll Out Down Under

With less than three days to go until the nationwide premiere (four days ahead of the US! Woo!), a link to the official Australian website of the Transformers movie is …

Weapons of Choice

A couple of Sundays ago, around midday, I splurged twenty dollars on a nigh-on seven-hundred-page book. By the evening of the next day, I’d made it to the back cover. …

Bring on Independence Day, 2007…

I’m going to be writing a longer, Christmas-related post later on today, but in the meantime I hope you’ll forgive my nerdish enthusiasm as I point you toward the new …

Wherein I Grok Burning Empires

Yeah, I’ve been hanging out on The Burning Wheel Forum lately, kinda sorta to get my “living vicariously through others’ games” fix but also to get a better feel for …

Gone With the Blastwave

Found out about this webcomic via the RPGnet Roleplaying Open thread with the motivational posters (yep, it’s still going). It’s a grand epic of passion, romance and old-time civilisation swept …

A Scanner Darkly

And while I’m on the topic of movies: All you broadband-enabled folks owe it to yourselves to take a look at the trailer for the upcoming film, A Scanner Darkly. …

Now, Why Does This Look Familiar?

Just checked out the tailer for an upcoming SF film, UltraViolet, starring Milla Jovovich. Watching it, I couldn’t help but feel like I’d seen this somewhere before. You know what? …

Out of Victoria by Barbarossa

Those of you who admire Tyr Anasazi as much as Vickie does will be pleased to learn that Keith Hamilton Cobb has his own website. It seems he’s between gigs …