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Kids are always making up games. I sure did. I vaguely remember a variant of board game baseball that I came up with in second grade. But this one sure has me beat. Anshul Samar, a 14-year-old boy from California has created a science-based fantasy card game called Elementeo. According to the blog Geek Dad [...]

In honor of the beginning of the fourth and final season of Battlestar Galactica tonight on the SciFi channel at 10:00 p.m., here is an eight-minute humorous recap from SciFi. And honestly, if you don’t watch Battlestar Galactica, well, you’re a fraking idiot. So, don’t call us tonight. We’ll be frothing in front of the [...]

The game of quidditch is now a reality at select college campuses on the East Coast. What was once a game from the imagination of J.K. Rowling in her brilliant Harry Potter books, is now actually being played on an intercollegiate level, Boston.com reports. Teams such as the Amherst College Acromantulas play the Middlebury College [...]

It’s called a shortnose sturgeon, it’s an endangered prehistoric looking fish, and it may stop the city of Haverhill’s plans to dredge the Merrimack River to bring more boaters and business to the city. The Newburyport News reports that dredging the 16-mile channel from Newburyport to Haverhill to bring it to a depth of 8 [...]

TechCrunch blogs that Automattic founder and WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg may look towards developing social networking tools for its famous blog software. The news is that Matt hired Andy Peatling, “the developer behind BuddyPress, a social network built on top of WordPress. BuddyPress will now become an official WordPress project.” As many of our readers [...]

It was a sad day on Tuesday for gamers worldwide when Gary Gygax, the inventor of the renowned role playing game Dungeons & Dragons, passed away. Rest in peace, Gary. CNN.com reports that Gary and Dave Arneson developed the game in 1974. Miraculously, despite his declining health, Gary hosted D&D games at his home right [...]

I counted at least four or five different commercials hawking sports drinks or vitamin water while watching this year’s Super Bowl. And you can be sure that the New England Patriots and the New York Giants both have huge vats of Gatorade at each end of their respective benches. If it’s not for drinking, then [...]

Reports like this do nothing to instill confidence in the nation’s most expensive public works project. Honestly, I’d rather travel through Boston streets, or take 128, rather than go through the new Big Dig tunnels of Boston. There has been one death so far in the past two years when the ceiling panels fell on [...]

Canada, our peaceful neighbor to the north, has the right idea about preservation and environmentalism. In a move to deliver on promises to nature preservation groups, the Canadian government set aside 25 million acres of wilderness for conservation. (That’s 11 times the size of Yellowstone National Park, which is roughly 2.2 million acres.) The Washington [...]

They say that an army runs on its feet and its stomach. For the most part, this is true. Nothing beats a sturdy pair of boots and good food. However, the next important piece of equipment is a soldier’s rucksack, or backpack. In this, a fighting man or woman will need to carry everything they [...]