I'm happy as a clam to have "blue gun" versions of both my primary CCW piece and my HD carbine. I find them useful for a variety of purposes, from practicing certain drills without having to clear a hot weapon or worry about muzzling the neighbor's...

While sitting through the trailers yesterday, I noticed that Hollywood is doing a movie of Prince Of Persia. Now, side-scrolling platform jumpers have never struck me as a rich vein of cinematographic ore, but they did make a Mario Brothers movie, so...

The thing that was most jarring to me about Avatar is something that will probably stand out like a sore thumb to any other SF geek: The aliens themselves. Look around our planet. Notice something about all the big critters, the vertebrates, with...

Bobbi and I just got back from seeing White Guilt In 3-D, a.k.a. Dances With Aliens. All the villains are white guys, and they all work for Astroburton or Spacewater, to boot. The big hero is also a white guy, but with the saving grace of being... er,...

Craig Anton - You Know What I Hate!? - The most amazing home videos are here I hadn't seen this bit since it was actually on TV over ten years ago, and yet I still remembered nearly the whole thing. Lord knows anybody around me of any length of time...