It's Time for Sheriffs to Enforce Gun Laws, Not Break Them
There is nothing more dangerous than a rogue cop. And when police start deciding which laws they will enforce and which they won't, then America is no longer a nation of laws.
View ArticleWhy Don't We Nuke the Aliens in Xcom?
"We had to destroy Earth in order to save it" is the last thing most of us want to hear. Perhaps this is why there are no nuclear weapons in Xcom: Enemy Unknown. Yet if the choice is between...
View ArticleAre Female Soldiers Coming to Video Games?
Women are about to storm yet another all-male bastion. With the Pentagon's decision to end the ban on women in combat, the video game industry must face the fact that combat is longer a male preserve.
View ArticleRocket-Propelled Cats and Other Feline Weapons of War
Hell hath no fury like a rocket-propelled cat. The feline you see in this drawing - the one with the rocket strapped to its back - is from an anonymous 16th Century German manuscript on explosives and...
View ArticleThe City Designed to Keep Drones Out
Tired of government drones spying on you from 20,000 feet up? Are you worried that a Hellfire missile will come through your window? Then move to sunny Shura City, the community purposely designed to...
View ArticleSocial Network Software Lets Government Predict Your Movements
Just how the government can mine social network data for where you have been and where you will go can be seen in a video by defense contractor Raytheon that was obtained by The Guardian.
View ArticleThe Return of System Shock 2
Update: System Shock 2 is now available for $9.99 here Compatible with Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8
View ArticleOriginal Dungeons and Dragons Books Resurrected
Good news if you a) love Dungeons & Dragons b) are feeling nostalgic for the 1970s and c) have a spare $150 burning a hole in your pocket. Wizards of the Coast is reprinting the original D&D...
View ArticleReligious Computer Game Brings Wrath Down on Pentagon
May God have mercy on the Pentagon's soul, for the lawyers may not. A computer game to train Army chaplains may draw a lawsuit from a civil liberties group who fear the game will become a tool for...
View ArticleStalingrad Reborn
Seventy years after Nazi bombs pulverized it to rubble, the legendary city of Stalingrad - perhaps the most ferocious battle of World War II - is reborn.
View ArticleAl Qaeda's Goofy Video Game Provokes Laughter, Not Terror
If Osama Bin Laden hadn't been killed by Navy SEALs, he would have died of embarrassment at his group's latest exploit. Al Qaeda militants in the African nation of Mali are tired of being blasted by...
View ArticleMoon Rocket Engines Rise From the Ocean Depths
The giant rocket engines that propelled mankind to the moon have been retrieved from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, is responsible for this voyage to...
View ArticleApple Agrees to Accept Syria Wargame if It Doesn't Include Syria
Remember "Endgame: Syria", the iOS newsgame on the ongoing Syrian civil war, that the Apple store rejected because it covered a real war by real nations instead of the usual silly made-up wars in most...
View ArticleDid Anonymous Hack Israel's Mossad Spy Agency?
The hackivists at Anonymous, along with Turkish and other hackers, are claiming they hacked into Israel's Mossad spy agency. More specifically, Turkish group Red Hack claims to have stolen the names,...
View ArticleWhat the Gorn Really Said to Captain Kirk
Poor lizard. First the Gorn was defeated by Captain Kirk and his do-it-yourself bazooka on the original Star Trek. Now 46 years later, the same thing happens again in the ad for the new Star Trek...
View ArticleDoes Jabba the Hut's Palace Really Look Like a Mosque?
Star Wars has always been a Rorschach test for me. Imperial Star Destroyers remind me of cheese wedges or tortilla chips. R2D2 looks like a .38-caliber bullet on wheels.
View ArticleWhy Did Anonymous Have to Attack Israel on Holocaust Memorial Day?
Yesterday began Holocaust Memorial Day. And six million dead were remembered in very different ways.
View ArticleNew Battlestar Galactica Game Announced
Get ready for another wild ride when an expansion to the superb Battlestar Galactica board game arrives this fall. Battlestar Galactica: Daybreak Expansion, from Fantasy Flight Games, adds characters...
View Article5 Weapons of Mass Destruction the U.S. Military Uses Every Day
When most of us think of weapons of mass destruction, we think of nuclear bombs, or nerve gas, or biological agents. So it was surprising to see accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev charged...
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