Recruit Nick Cordell Jr died while writing out parking tickets next to an expired meter. He never knew why he died, and barely had time to draw his weapon before bullets from a machine gun tore through him. As he clung to life, a red…
Some people don't like visiting websites. Yes, that's hard to believe in an age where you're never more than three shallow breaths away from a web browser at any moment, but it's easy to understand. Websites generally exist to make money for their owners, and…
Most of what we know about Idaho comes from Neal Stephenson's Fall, where various inhabitants and characters are described as "extreme libertarians with a religious bent." They live in isolated compounds, and practice, "a fringy kind of Christianity." We don't know how true that is,…
The majority of people who use the internet (or just people - everyone uses the internet) can be divided into two camp: people who plug a search query into Google, then either visit a page or digest the AI summary, and doomscrollers. Doomscrolling is the…
While it's not explicitly stated when Adrian Tchaikovsky's 2025 novel, Service Model, takes place, the use of the word "yeet" as a verb in the context of energetically throwing something, indicates that the events are not too far in the future. Spoilers ahead When we…
Walk past a GB300 lying on a table, and you'll be immediately overcome by the urge to pick it up and start playing Pokemon. The similarities to a Game Boy Color are apparent straight away. There's the brightly coloured case (or there would be if…
We were sad when Nora died. We'd enjoyed spending time with her for over a month, across a journey of several hundred miles, she'd proven herself to be the best of people. A missionary by trade, Nora was kind and competent. She could negotiate a…
Zombies aren't something we usually worry about at the crow's nest. But they're an ever-present possibility, and the upcoming release of 28 Years Later - another no-doubt disappointing sequel to the classic 28 Days later - has us wondering how we'd fare if the zombie…
Along with high-speed internet access, 3D-printing is one of the surest signs that we're living in the future. Think of something, anything, and within a few hours it can be yours - without you leaving your home, or even having it delivered by a guy…
Fallout 4 - while fun to play - was disappointing. It offered a lightweight, Disneyfied version of the post-apocalyptic word, seemingly aimed squarely at console gamers and kids. Unlike previous entries in the series, it wasn't really possible to exist in the wasteland as a…