Right up there with the cowboy, the samurai, the knight, and the Goth, the archetype of the hacker will live forever in history, hilariously misconceived and tragically misunderstood. But of all the historic archetypes, the hacker alone had the distinction of being born in the multimedia age, and hence was the only kind to be [...]

New Rule: When Role-Playing Gamers finally take our advice and get out more, they have to leave their fantasy world at home. We’re all very glad for you that you have at last found your place as otherkin in the land of hobbits, but when you’ve played Dungeons and Dragons so much that it starts [...]

You’d have to be blind (or not addicted to the Internet) to have missed the story going around this week about the man who surgically altered his thumbs to be able to operate his iPhone better. Quite a few sites seemed to take it seriously. But the originators have now come out to say it [...]