Scout Wil

I'm just this guy, you know?

Website: http://www.wilwheaton.net/

Member Since: June 15, 2006

Participation | Friends | Stats Wil's Stories RSS feed

Show: All | Submissions | Videos | Votes | Sinks | Comments

« < 1 2 3 4 5 > »

This story has mostly positive ratings. 12 votes / No sinks

Fox TV Boss Previews Sci-Fi Roster

Television – With superheroes blitzing Hollywood and Battlestar Galactica ratings finally living up to the series' critical acclaim, sci-fi shows are looking like a good bet to Fox Television. Fox Broadcasting President Kevin Reilly offered his take on the network's new crop of sci-fi shows on Monday.

View Story Discuss (0) (blog.wired.com) 8 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on July 15, 2008 02:36pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 11 votes / No sinks

Particles Retain Weight for Billions of Years

Science – Unlike most of us, subatomic particles don't gain weight as they get older. The mass of these tiny bits of matter has remained constant over the last 6 billion years, recent astronomical observations indicate.

View Story Discuss (0) (space.com) 8 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on July 15, 2008 01:07pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 15 votes / No sinks

Bush, Consultant Go Back 20 Years

Politics – The White House today tried to distance Bush from a former lobbyist who was caught on tape by the Times of London offering to arrange meetings with high-level U.S. officials in exchange for large payments to the future Bush presidential library fund. But the president and the Houston-based consultant have known each other for at least 20 years.

View Story Discuss (0) (tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com) 9 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on July 14, 2008 07:26pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 14 votes / No sinks

All the E3 news you need, in one place

Video Games – e3Feed automatically collects all E3-related stories from all of the web's top news sources and puts them in one place so you don't have to hunt for them.

View Story Discuss (0) (e3feed.com) 9 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on July 14, 2008 07:15pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 15 votes / No sinks

Officials recall little of what they knew of Tillman death

Politics – The House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform said its efforts to determine whether Bush administration officials tried to hide the details of Pat Tillman's death and Jessica Lynch's rescue was thwarted by what it called "a near universal lack of recall."

View Story Discuss (0) (mcclatchydc.com) 9 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on July 14, 2008 03:45pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 18 votes / No sinks

6 Stupid Gas Saving Schemes (People Are Actually Trying)

Autos – With gas prices skyrocketing and 65 payments left on the Escalade, America is looking for ways to cut back. In these desperate times we'll do whatever is necessary, as long as it doesn't involve driving less. Fortunately there are a number of fuel-saving alternatives that are easy, inexpensive and completely idiotic.

View Story Discuss (0) (cracked.com) 9 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on July 14, 2008 02:14pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 10 votes / No sinks

Six reasons you should be watching The Middleman

Television – Two or three years from now, you'll be thrusting the DVDs of trainee-superhero show The Middleman at your friends and telling them they must check out this awesome show. It has everything: wit, subversiveness, charm, audacious scifi concepts, and the perfect blend of the spy, superhero and X-Files-y genres.

View Story Discuss (0) (io9.com) 9 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on July 14, 2008 01:50pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks

Geekly Reader - "Red Planet" by Robert A. Heinlein

Books – Red Planet is a great example of Golden Age Science Fiction and is a very well told adventure story. I believe it is an excellent book to share with your kids, especially young boys. It can also be the catalyst for a teaching moment, illustrating how far we have come in planetary science in the last six decades.

View Story Discuss (0) (blog.wired.com) 9 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on July 14, 2008 12:57pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 7 votes / No sinks

Class D Amplifiers Are Shrinking and Greening Your Electronics

Gadgets & Tech – Technology has democratized the music industry in many obvious ways -- notice how every band, regardless of stature, has a MySpace page? But one of technology's more subtle effects has been to make our sound systems smaller, lighter and greener. The special sauce: Class D amplifiers, the first real advance in speaker design in decades.

View Story Discuss (0) (blog.wired.com) 9 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on July 14, 2008 12:41pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 10 votes / No sinks

Cooler weather helping firefighters contain Butte County fires

News – Firefighting crews say cooler weather has allowed them to gain the upper hand on the Butte County wildfires, although they're not yet ready to declare the fight won. Large areas of the burned region remain evacuated as a precaution, but the fire is now 65 percent contained and no additional homes have burned.

View Story Discuss (0) (sacbee.com) 10 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on July 13, 2008 06:15pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks

Belkin GoStudio: Portable Audio Recording for iPod

Gadgets & Tech – Podcasters, live concert tapers, field recorders, birding enthusiasts and anyone else who wants to record high-quality audio on the go will likely appreciate the value of Belkin's GoStudio, which turns any recently released iPod into a portable recording studio.

View Story Discuss (0) (blog.wired.com) 10 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on July 13, 2008 02:54pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 12 votes / No sinks

Aldrin blames Science Fiction for lack of interest in science

Science – Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. told SCI FI Wire that fantastic space science fiction shows and movies are, in part, responsible for the lack of interest in real-life space exploration among young people.

View Story Discuss (0) (scifi.com) 10 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on July 13, 2008 02:50pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks

Suspect soldiers: Did crimes in U.S. foretell violence in Iraq?

News – A yearlong examination of military and civilian records involving hundreds of troops who entered the services since the Iraq war began identified 120 cases of people whose backgrounds should have raised the suspicions of military recruiters, including felony convictions and serious drug, alcohol or mental health problems.

View Story Discuss (0) (mcclatchydc.com) 10 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on July 13, 2008 02:43pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / No sinks

Ancient canoes, modern science meld to track water quality

Science – For several weeks this summer, some of the 100 canoes headed to Vancouver Island for an annual gathering also will be trailing sophisticated water-monitoring equipment provided by the U.S. Geological Survey. Every 10 seconds, the $20,000 probes will test the water's temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen levels, pH and turbidity.

View Story Discuss (0) (mcclatchydc.com) 10 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on July 13, 2008 02:39pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 8 votes / No sinks

Debate: Science Versus Magic in Fiction

Books – One of the biggest debates among people who like scifi is where to draw the line between science and magic. We talked to five authors whose fiction blurs the line between magic and science to find out what they thought of the difference between the two. Here's what they said.

View Story Discuss (0) (io9.com) 10 days ago by Wil

Submitted and Voted for on July 13, 2008 02:35pm

« < 1 2 3 4 5 > »