League of Legends: D cups full of Justice

What do you get when you start with a real-time strategy game, automate the armies, and give the player control of a single champion on a team of five champions in a tower defense map? A nice little free to play game called League of Legends. Tophat and Elrood and myself have been sticking to [...]

Breaker Morant: Incivility in an uncivilized environment

Ask anybody who has seen combat and they’ll tell you all the poems are true. War really and truly is hell. In 5,000 years of recorded history that is one fact that has remained a constant. We try to keep the brutality civilized with rules of engagement and gentleman’s agreements like the Geneva Convention. The [...]

Simon of Space: Ford Prefect as a robot butler

When it comes to gallivanting through space there’s just nothing like a good robe. Sure it may seem a bit silly in certain public realms, but what planet doesn’t appreciate a man in a perfectly comfortable terry cloth with a nice long belt for dipping in the porcelain at every way station? Simon of Space [...]

Sneakers: Wiki Leaks meets War Games

I’ve been pondering a subject lately that I think you might find interesting. Secrets. Particularly government secrets. When I started my career in journalism I saw it as my solemn duty to ensure that my government kept no secrets from the public. That is after all the whole reason the first amendment was created, so [...]

Felix and the Frontier: Space without the Spiff

Hello. My name is Enosh and I bought a smartphone. Hi Enosh. I got a great deal on a refurbished unit so at least I can sleep at night knowing I didn’t pay full retail for a device I’m not entirely convinced I need. To be completely honest I got it mostly so I could [...]

Downton Abbey: A decidedly British affair

I must admit this post has a distinct lack of science and horror in comparison to my usual fair. I’m afraid I’ve gone a bit astray as of late. My wife and I have been enjoying a little British drama known as Downton Abbey. My wife is quite a Jane Austen fan so the idea [...]

Atlas Shrugged: and so did I

This year marks the fifty-fifth anniversary of the publishing of Atlas Shrugged, the foundation of libertarian philosopher Ayn Rand‘s Objectivism ideals. In the years since her passing she has largely slipped from the public conscience and with the fall of communism her ideals have largely been taken for granted or simply left to decay like [...]

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry:

So my brother was in town for Easter. He’s extremely jealous of my Netflix subscription and HDTV, so we made good use of both during his visit. He had a real hankering for a car chase movie and for some reason Netflix isn’t currently streaming Bullitt or the original Italian Job so we looked elsewhere [...]

The Long Good Friday: How the Brits lost their Empire

The funny thing about British gangster movies is there are so few of them. While the list of New York mafia movies would extend beyond the tip of Long Island, the list for the Brits wouldn’t even top Big Ben. I imagine a lot of this has to do  with a perceived lack of violence [...]

The Underfold: A study in doing it wrong

It’s been too long since I’ve done a comic review, but to be honest I was on such a hot streak I became a bit overwhelmed trying to keep up with all the great comics I had found. Luckily that won’t be an issue this time around. Today we’re going to discuss a little thing [...]