Welcome to Star City
WIRED, September 2008. Going to space? First stop: eight months of grueling training in Russia's Star City.
Anonymous vs. Scientology
MAXIM, August 2008. A faceless, unstable virtual army masses to take on a religion.
Rebel Alliance
FAST COMPANY, April 2008.
How a small band of sci-fi geeks is leading Hollywood into a new era.
The Man Who Lost His Name—and His Genetic Identity.
DISCOVER, April 2008.
Eric Drew miraculously recovered from both cancer and identity theft.
The Dungeon Master
WIRED, March 2008. The life and legacy of Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons.
Cormac McCarthy's Apocalypse
ROLLING STONE, December 27, 2007. The acclaimed author's dark vision - and the scientists who inspire him.
Like Minds
WIRED, February 2008.
Push Singh and Chris McKinstry had a lot in common: Both Canadian. Both coders. Both obsessed with tapping the Web to create a true artificial intelligence. And both found dead in the same strange way.
The Slashdot Supremacy
IEEE SPECTRUM, November 2007
How a Michigan geek tamed the online masses.
The Guitar Heroes
PORTFOLIO, September 17, 2007
The brains behind one of the hottest videogames have big plans for their next act, Rock Band.
Password: Charlie
WIRED, June 2007
A password. 7 simple letters. A hacker's lucky guess. And suddenly the frontman for Linkin Park was living a nightmare. Finding the stalker would become a matter of national security.
Inside Second Life
ROLLING STONE, April 2007
Is the hottest spot on the Net paradise on Earth or something a little more sordid? An exclusive behind-the-scenes look at Second Life and its messianic creator, Philip Rosedale.
Heroes
WIRED, May 2007
Tim Kring doesn't know Magneto from Wolverine. You'd never know it from watching Heroes, his hit show about everyday people with extraordinary powers.
The Road to Ruin
WIRED, May 2007
Boorish behavior, backdated stock options, and a hidden sex scene. How Grand Theft Auto hit the skids.
Gaming's Bully
ROLLING STONE November 16, 2006
How Jack Thompson, regular dude and Frank Zappa fan, became the country's scariest crusader against video games.
One Giant Screwup for Mankind
WIRED January 2007
NASA put a man on the moon - then lost the videotape. A grizzled crew of ex-rocket jockeys are on a star-crossed mission to find it.
The Baby Billionaires of Silicon Valley
ROLLING STONE, November 16, 2006
The Internet's new boom kids are poised to take over the world -- if they don't crash first.
Dude, That is So Not Funny
WIRED, October 2006
Eric Bauman made big bucks posting other people's homemade gross-out videos to his Web site. Now the geeks whose clips he swiped on the way up are trying to knock him down.
The Infinite Arcade
WIRED, August 2006
Forget plastic discs. Downloading games to your console is the new way to play – and it could revive the industry.
No Quiet on the Ocean Front
NEW YORK MAGAZINE, July 10, 2006
Long Beach Island will end up underwater unless it’s shored up. Yet an alliance of wealthy weekenders and surfers is taking a stand to let it wash away.
Your Money or Your Site
WIRED, June 2006
Alex Tew made a million bucks with his website. Then the extortionists came calling.
Face to Face
ROLLING STONE, April 7, 2006
Meet the boy wonder behind Facebook.com, the hottest Web site the Internet.
"I'm Not Bobby Fischer"
SALON, March 2006
Don't call the 18-year-old boy king of chess a geek. He rules a new generation of champs raised on hip-hop and video games.
The Neopets Addiction
WIRED, December 2005
20 million kids can't get enough - and neither can advertisers. How a virtual animal kingdom became a product placement paradise.
Casualty of Porn
ROLLING STONE, December 5, 2005
Is Chris Wilson facing jail over amateur smut or dead Iraqis?
On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Bot
WIRED, September 2005
In the booming world of online poker, anyone can win. Especially with an autoplaying robot ace in the hole. Are you in, human?
Grand Death Auto
SALON, February 2005
Two kids, 13 and 15, killed an innocent highway motorist. Was a violent computer game responsible -- or their sad lives?
The World's Most Dangerous Geek
ROLLING STONE, January 13, 2004
Justin Frankel, the man who made it easy to swap music online, has even bigger plans.
These are Definitely Not Scully's Breasts
WIRED, November 2003
Inside one man's crusade to save Gillian Anderson and the rest of the world from the plague of fake celebrity porn.
Drawing Up a Dream
ROLLING STONE, November 13, 2003.
Detroit's hottest car designers were raised on video games and MTV. It shows.
I Was a Teenage Freak
ROLLING STONE, September 4, 2003
In Gibsonton, Florida, the carny capital of the nation, a new generation of glass walkers and knife throwers keeps the sideshow alive for at least one more summer.
Prepare to Meet Thy Doom
WIRED, May 2003
John Carmack's game engines set the standard for PC graphics - and legions of gamers and the industry love him for it. Now he's brought the world to the brink of Doom III.
Trent Reznor's Pretty Hate Machines
SALON, September 17, 2002.
A geek before geeks were cool, the high-tech musician explains why he had to reclaim his programming roots for his next album.
