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According to a Financial Times article (which may or may not be paywalled . . . my browser keeps acting weird with that link), scientists have devised a way for parrots to communicate via the Internet. The 26 participating parrots would have video chats for up to three hours a...

I do most of the meal prep at home, so I'm always looking for new and interesting cooking techniques. When I came across José Andrés' two-ingredient omelet recipe (shown prepped by him here on TikTok), I literally dropped what I was doing (which was, um, messing around on the Internet)...

Last week I was extremely honored to stay at Auburn University as their visiting writer. Enormous appreciation and gratitude to Dr. Emily Friedman (who was recently appointed the Jean Wickstrom Liles Endowed Professorship of English) for bringing me to classes, organizing events, and giving me such a warm and compassionate...

Here's one for you miniature painters out there. This article was planned to go along with the Wiz-War STL Kickstarter we ran in 2023, but other things came up and it just never happened. As the saying goes . . . better late than never. This is one of those...

Munchkin Big Box is now available on Warehouse23.com! Munchkin Big Box is indeed the biggest thing to ever come to the Munchkin universe. Inside the massive box, new players will find everything they need to get started, and long-time fans will be excited for the exclusive extras which can't be...

Got both my flu and COVID shots today. I stack them when I can, on the theory that a short period of misery is better than two periods of mere discomfort. Your mileage may vary. But I hope you are getting some kind of mileage. Specifically, I hope you are...

The next Autoduel Chronicles book is available to pre-order from Three Ravens Publishing. This one is an anthology of Car Wars stories – with an intro by long-time fan Wil Wheaton! That makes six in the series. Go, Ravens, go! Here's the Amazon link. Hope you like it as much...

The sudden appearance of a prequel for Event Horizon, a gruesome and imaginative sci-fi/supernatural horror mash-up from 1997, was not on my 2025 bingo card. It started to make a little more sense when I found out it's in comic book, rather than movie form. Like so many innovative works,...