Today, I watched a rocket explode. This afternoon, a privately built Antares rocket carrying some five-thousand pounds of food and other supplies headed for the International Space Station had a “Vehicle Anomaly” which is a very clinical euphemism for a rather spectacular fireball on the launch-pad. The rocket, along with its Cygnus module, are both products of Orbital […]
Read more +#GamerGate is about ethics in videogame journalism. Like many of you, I’ve heard or seen these words repeated many times over the last month or so throughout social media, in conversation, on TV, even the old print media has gotten in on the fun. And like many of you, I’ve at least made an effort to try and […]
Read more +So last night I went to the Milwaukee Public Museum and watched Jurassic Park in the big ass dome theater. I last saw it in the theater back when it premiered in 1993. I was thirteen years old surrounded by my mom and my nine-year-old brother. We didn’t breath for the last half of the movie. […]
Read more +It’s true. This political junkie doesn’t give a shit about the midterm elections. But it’s not apathy or a disinterest in our democracy driving this attitude. Let me explain. No, that would take too long. Let me summarize. As it stands right now, the midterm elections are completely meaningless. Actually, that’s too broad a statement. […]
Read more +My favorite group of nerds on the entire planet are trying something new. The folks at NASA are running a contest to hand out press credentials to as many as 150 people active in social media. The full details of the contest can be seen here, but the short version is they’re giving dozens of […]
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