Following up from my earlier post about the SF Film Marathon.I read a post by fellow hamster Marie on her Blog about one of my favorite bad movies, the epic of pretentious hippie psychedelica, Zardoz. Seeing her visceral reaction to this movie made me think about this film, and why Read more…
If you’ve never used anything but Google to search the internet, you need to read this article.
The Evil One My wife was nagging me that I don’t put enough of my personal life on my blog, and that I don’t have enough pictures. So here’s the obligatory pet pictures for 1/2 the non-human portion of the household. The evil one is Panzer, a black cat with Read more…
I just read an über-cool short story at Helix, “Rod Rapid and His Electric Chair” by John Barnes. It is truly scary (and funny) on a number of different levels, including a very nice twist of the knife at the end. What’s very cool to me is the fact that Read more…
Ok, I just heard the phrase “debate on global warming/climate change” one too many times. You have three guesses on exactly what pisses me off about that phrase. If you want a hint about what’s ticking me off, I’ll quote myself from my ScienceReligion post: “Science is observable fact. Period. Read more…
Sort of a companion to the earlier post Other SF Authors Who Blog; here’s a short list (probably incomplete) of blogs from current and former members of my writer’s workshop, the Cajun Sushi Hamsters From Hell. Tobias S. Buckell Ellen Klages Geoff Landis Demented Michelle Maureen F. McHugh Catherynne M. Read more…
I was just at the CWRU SF Marathon (an annual event here in Cleveland, if you’re in the area, consider going, it’s like a live version of MST3K) and a couple of recent examples of cinematic SF cheese made me wonder exactly what might be wrong with some modern SF. Read more…
And actually moderating comments. Sorry about that 🙁 I just recently had a number of issues that took me away from my Blog, the prime one of which being a car accident back in October. I’m fine, but the Ford F150 I was driving was totaled— apparently, the frame was Read more…
For those interested, I found a really decent article on the economics of Second Life and MMORPGs in general. Thinking about what it is examining more closely, I begin to think that IP and capitalism are more emergent properties in society, and not arbitrary legal frameworks . . .
Western civilization is dealing with a crisis over intellectual property. The fact that any digital medium can be easily copied with perfect fidelity ties our legal system into knots, leading some, like Cory Doctorow to call for the outright abolition of Copyright law. However, DMCA et al is a harbinger Read more…