I signed up a couple of weeks ago for Tor’s “Watch the Skies” promotion, where they send you a dozen of their books, once a…
Tuesday – American Idol begins Hollywood week, which winnows the people who made it through the audition process to the twenty-four people who will make…
Kind of a mishmash post today. I start out with some EQ2, then move on to TV and lastly a little bit about work right…
Inspired by Wilhelm and Potshot, who both see the barriers against any sort of MMO with a science fictional basis as nearly insurmountable… I found…
A new book by Iain [M] Banks is always something to celebrate. Humor, action, politics, joy and despair (but usually more of the latter than…
When Wired ran a story headlined “Apple Plotting an Avon Power Play”, all I could think was, “Damn that Avon! Which side is he ON?”….
Via boingboing, I found a great LA Weekly profile of Devo co-founder Mark Motherbaugh’s turn from New Wave post-punk icon to noted, “quirky”, soundtrack and…
I don’t game all the time, though you wouldn’t know it from this blog. I also enjoy reading, dinking around with 3D renders, playing real…
Way back in the 70s, Vernor Vinge wrote a short story called “True Names” which is about a bunch of people who hang out in…
Countdown for blast-off. X Minus 5, 4, 3, 2, X Minus 1, Fire. From the far horizons of the unknown come transcribed tales of new…
