Nuketown Radio Active is a podcast dedicated to life, liberty and the pursuit of geekdom. The show features geek, technology and gaming links from around the Web as well as book, movie, game and podcast reviews. The podcast was first published in March 2005 and is hosted by Ken Newquist, Nuketown’s editor and founder. A web developer by day, he’s also a freelance staff writer for Knights of the Dinner Table.
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Home improvement once again takes center stage as my wife and I prepare to re-paint our living room. But it’s not all painting and scraping: I’ve also got two new sites to talk about — GenCon (Almost) Live and Geek Acres — and a run down of my favorite games for the Nintendo DS. And … Read more
Technology vlogs — also known as video podcasts — take center stage in Radio Active 36 as I run down the big list of video podcasts I watch every morning while eating my Cheerios and feeding the baby, including commandN, Digg Nation, dl.tv, Geek Brief and Geek Entertainment TV. I’ve also got news about the … Read more
This show features a Radio Active first as I do a game and music review of the same product: Wizards of the Coast’s Sharn: City of Towers for the Eberron campaign setting. The show has a ton of listener feedback from Radio Active #34, as well as a review of the Vintage Gamer podcast, a … Read more
Radio Active gets its first guest as Lance Miller of Ditlog: Day in the Life of a Gamer joins me to review Arkham Horror, the Lovecraftian-inspired board game from Fantasy Flight Games. The “Sites of Note” segment returns with thoughts on science fiction writer David Brin’s post ” The Illusion of Public ‘Panic’… and the … Read more
The big news this week is about the new Nuketown web site and some of the content that’s soon to grace its Web pages. Balancing out the self-congratulatory ramblings and pleads for comments is a review of the Battlestar Galactica Season 2 Soundtrack, including several tracks from the CD courtesy of LaLa Land Records. There’s … Read more
Nuketown Radio Active returns after a month-long, baby-induced hiatus with news that NeutronLad has arrived! Things then take a technological turn with a discussion of various tools and Web sites to enhance your geeky productivity. The podcast is rounded out by a review of the first of the books on my my Summer Reading List: Transmetropolitan: … Read more
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Zombies are the topic of the day with Radio Active #30, which features a review of Stephen King’s zombie-novel Cell and Jonathan Coulton’s Thing a Week song “Re Your Brains”. Sites of Note looks at Joss Whedon’s Serenity re-done in LEGOS, applauds All Games Considered on their one-year anniversary, and takes a look at Geek … Read more
Another podcast, another Sunday spent painting. This time around I discuss Battlestar Galactica’s Season 2 cliffhanger and offer a brief review of the film version of V for Vendetta (yes, I’m behind the geek times) before launching into reviews of the turn-based strategy game FreeCiv, the podcasts Misfit Brew and Does My Geek Look Big … Read more
I’ve been a stranger in a strange land the last two weeks as I’ve spent half my weekend hours in Home Depot, and the other half working hard to transform my old gaming room into my daughter’s new bedroom. Fortunately I had plenty of geek podcasts to keep me company through the process. Radio Active … Read more