Conan

With its essentially amoral tenor, one can almost think of Age of Conan as akin to Grand Theft Auto, with swords instead of machine guns.

- NY Times (link here)

Interesting review.

If I had a high-end PC and 80 extra hours per week, I would play it.

Solve Puzzles for Science

http://fold.it/portal/index.php?q=adobe_main/

Advance the cause of science by playing games that involve folding proteins.

Cool concept.

Dwarven Forge

http://www.dwarvenforge.com/store/home.php

Awesome terrain for miniatures.

Buy American

(Thanks to Elizabeth for calling my attention to this one.)

http://www.wowgold-usa.com/index.html#

If I were still playing World of Warcraft, I would only buy American-farmed gold, no Asian-farmed gold for me.

Microsoft storytelling

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/

Features a very grandiose and preachy intro video.

Backscatter spam

Because backscatter comes from legitimate mail servers, it can cause special problems. In fact, some security researchers believe that the spammers have been intentionally sending messages that will be bounced back as a way to sneak around spam filters. That's because some mail servers bounce back the original message as part of their notice.

- Computerworld (link here)

Fiendishly clever.

Steampunk

Devotees of the culture read Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, as well as more recent speculative fiction by William Gibson, James P. Blaylock and Paul Di Filippo, the author of “The Steampunk Trilogy,” the historical science fiction novellas that lent the culture its name.

- NY Times (link here)