I think Mike Pondsmith would have some unpleasant things to say about it, but these amazing pictures of the Paralympics don’t seem to be lacking in humanity.
February 18, 2010 – 3:37 am
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In this episode, Robert Bohl (designer of Misspent Youth) and Joshua A. C. Newman (designer of shock: social science fiction) end it all. Just in time for your Dreamation 2010 drive/flight!
- You can’t cut a piece off something living unless it wants you to, like one of those happy cow-like [...]
Arthur C. Clarke died early this morning.
It’s hard to express the affect his writing had on me. 2001 was the first movie I saw and the scale of his vision really influenced the way I think.
November 5, 2007 – 5:44 pm
“Happy Counterterrorism Day” is an article in Harper’s Magazine that, if you haven’t read, you must. I think this one’s going on my imaginary bookshelf with Umberto Eco’s Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt.
Remember: sooner or later, we’re all subject to the iron boot. If you don’t stand up for your [...]
April 12, 2007 – 11:09 am
These words and the ones that followed meant a lot to me. They highlighted the difference between “equal” and “the same” by showing what it meant to conflate them.
Thank you, Mr. Vonnegut, for giving me these words.
THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. [...]
January 12, 2007 – 7:21 pm
Robert Anton Wilson just died. It’s sad, despite his wishes. I’ve loved his writing since I was a teenager and had just discovered Illuminatus! and Cosmic Trigger. He was a friend of Timothy Leary, Anton X. LeVey, Philip K. Dick, and lots of others from that crowd.
He’s the source of my skepticism and the [...]
December 29, 2006 – 5:42 pm
The Houdini thing below is having its first protoplaytest in a couple of weeks. We’ll see how that goes. But there’s one other project I’m excited about that I forgot to mention. It’s about war journalism in the era of the citizen journalist, the blogger. The date is 15 years from now. The civil war [...]
September 29, 2006 – 12:15 pm
When I was in school, there were two things that I was told made America the best country in the world: we’d never waged a war on anyone aggressively (which was already easily debatable at the time, but still actually debatable and not a transparent lie) and you couldn’t be imprisoned without the due process [...]
September 6, 2006 – 12:29 am
After getting Burt Rutan to finally get his spacecraft flying after dropping hints for a decade, the X-Prize organization is turning its all-enabling gaze to the Space Elevator. What’s interesting about this is not just the ambient interest in the Space Elevator and its nature as a bridge to the rest of the universe; this [...]
