Wil Wheaton's Dungeon-Mastering a pair of Dungeon Delves (45-minute speed-dungeons) at RinCon next weekend in Tucson, at $50/head to benefit Child's Play, a charity that sends toys, games, books and cash to sick kids. Sounds like a blast!
First, some history: Way back in the olden days, when 8 bits were enough to blow your mind on a 13-inch television and digital watches were a pretty neat idea, the concept of the Dungeon Delve was born.
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Wil Wheaton is leading a kitchen-table game of Dungeons and Dragons with his teenaged son and some of his son's friends, and documenting the campaign in his blog. This is absolutely charming, a heartwarming tale of our proud geek heritage being passed down through the generations. — Read the rest
Wil Wheaton sez,
I totally agreed with Cory's take on the whole Author's Guild vs. Reality (and text 2 speech) kerfuffle, and I saw that other authors like John Scalzi and Neil Gaiman were pretty much on the same, uh, page.
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Bonnie Burton interviews actor, author, gamer, and geek-er Wil Wheaton in this month's edition of GEEK. Snip:
Geek: (…) I need to know how far you've gotten in Grand Theft Auto IV.
Wil Wheaton: I haven't been playing GTA IV that long since the game came out–maybe five hours so far.
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…and that's about all you need to know as proof that the newly released Galacticast episode "Starfleet Academy" is hilare. I heard about this some weeks ago, but could not blog under promise of STFU. Video Link.
In this episode of BBtv: New trends in Fall TV shows, and an interview with TV star and blogger Wil Wheaton about his (excellent) new book, "The Happiest Days of Our Lives." And for a Unicorn Chaser, video of a new aircraft now in use in Iraq. — Read the rest
BB buddy Wil Wheaton said yesterday,
I thought you'd get a kick out of the very clever jack-o-lantern my stepson Nolan carved tonight. It was entirely his idea, and he had to explain to me what it was. Ah, the generation gap.
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Wil Wheaton has done an excellent Slashdot interview that's pure Wil — funny, savvy, and insightful:
It's tough to answer your question without coming off like a total douche, but I'll try: I think you see most celebrities carefully choosing who they talk to and what they talk about because a lot of their value is based on the mystique their publicists can create for them.
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Gamer, actor, and geek Wil Wheaton has posted an insightful post-mortem about the barely-averted strike by talent unions against the video game industry. In this post, he attempts to correct the often-misunderstood concept of residuals, among other things. Link to full text.
On the evening of blogger/actor Wil Wheaton's return to the small screen in CSI, this profile by the New York Times' John Schwartz. Snip:
The dark moment of the soul came in a Hooters in Pasadena. Mr. Wheaton wandered in one day in June 2000 with a buddy for lunch, and the waitress – her name tag, he swears, read "Destiny" – asked, "Didn't you used to be an actor?"
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Calling all cryptographers: Link. (thanks, Sean)
Wil "now starring in CSI" Wheaton says:
Your post at Boing Boing about ASCAP licensing just made my blood boil.
Do I understand this correctly? If I love a band (let's pick The Shins, because that's what iTunes is playing right now) and want to share a great song (New Slang, for instance) to a large audience in my podcast, and talk about how much I love the album, and encourage all the listeners to go buy it .
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Actor, author, cat-lover, and blogger Wil Wheaton has a new gig on the CBS television show CSI. They're asking him to refrain from shaving so he'll look scary and scruffy. HAWT. Link. Congrats, Wil!
Wil Wheaton, the former Wesley Crusher of Star Trek: TNG, is one of the most interesting geeks I know. Geeks, as a species, come from fantastic and variegated backgrounds — doctors, lawyers, ditch-diggers and shop-clerks; it's a salutory effect of the absence of any real professional practice of geekdom. — Read the rest
I saw a movie this week, and got very excited about one of the trailers, for a movie called Neverland, which appears to be a very lush retelling of Peter Pan that's quite nasty and dark — like a rusty fishhook in the 'nads. — Read the rest
Wil Wheaton's new book, Dancing Barefoot, is out! It's comprised of five true-life anaecdotes from Wil's life, which is as weird and interesting and 21st-Century an existence as you can imagine:
Houses in Motion – Memories fill the emptiness left within a childhood home, and saying goodbye brings them to life.
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Wil Wheaton has just auditioned for a role in "I, Robot," the film-adaptation!
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David Weekly has posted a great gallery of photos from last night's EFF benefit at the DNA Lounge. It was a hell of an event — DJs, civil liberatarians, nerd dancing, and the headlining act: Wil Wheaton boxing with Barney, the Purple Dinosaur. — Read the rest
Wil Wheaton — Star Trek's Wesley Crusher and a true-and-through nerd with a kick-ass blog — will appear on The Weakest Link tonight as part of a Star Trek theme episode. If he wins, he's donating the proceeds to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. — Read the rest
My friend Cory Doctorow —author, digital rights advocate, and Boing Boing alum — refuses to sell his audiobooks through Amazon's Audible because of its mandatory Digital Rights Management (DRM) system, which restricts user choices by locking them into Amazon's platform. Instead, Cory crowdfunds his own DRM-free e-books and audiobooks, which are read by professional narrators like Wil Wheaton. — Read the rest
