Posts by D. H. McKee

Music Muffled in Star Wars Game

The massively multiplayer online game, Star Wars Galaxies, gives gamers a chance to build their own weapons and armor, fly...

Dissing Darwin

The invitation was straightforward enough: “The Director of the National Museum of Natural History and Discovery Institute are happy to...

The Fundamentalist attack on separation of church & state defames America and its founders

The right-wing’s multi-front war on American democracy now aims at our core belief in separation of church and state. It...

Build Your Dream Sex Machine

If you had thousands of dollars for a splurge, would you really spend it on an internet-controlled sex chair when...

Dinner Comes With a Side of Games

Pong creator and Atari founder Nolan Bushnell thinks adults just want to have fun. In fact, he’s banking on it....

WWW goes .xxx

As of today, XXX websites will be able to have addresses based on the .xxx domain. Internet Corporation for Assigned...

The Geek Age

Buried Lede | Stephen Lynch | Geeks The finales of ‘Star Trek’ and ‘Star Wars’ mark the end of a...

Appetite for Bullshit

I’m staring down another double espresso. I’m not sure I’m even interested in drinking it. I had a slice of...

The Star Trek connection

A surprising number of child sex abusers appear to be Trekkies. Trying to figure out what that means, however, shows...

Star Wars: The Science of Consistency

On fictional universes and the fans who rationalize them. As a writer/editor at the American Council on Science and Health,...