The “classic” sci-fi time waster is not just restricted to colonizing distant suns and/or flying around blowing up shit. No. Sometimes it involves flying to distant suns that are already colonized, geting out of your spaceship and then blowing up shit. And after all, isn’t that — the epic space opera, anchored on some Byzantine galaxy-spanning empire […]
Have We Reached the End of Book Publishing As We Know It? New York Magazine: Books, he says, “were like Internet stocks, getting enormous advances without demonstrating any moneymaking whatsoever.” ClimbingVibe Climbing News by the Community As Synthetic Biology Becomes Affordable, Amateur Labs Thrive via B^2: "Deeb, who said he was trying to make safer […]
Hubble Finds a Mystery Object via SkyandTelescope.com (via Gizmodo (via /.) ) Personal Space and Writing Novels in the Internet Era David Foster Wallace (Harper’s Magazine) via DF: Harper's posting a collection of essays and shorts If You’re Not Using It, Get Rid of It: Ten Ways to Declutter and Put Cash in Your Pocket […]
David Foster Wallace – whose memory I trust will live on as one of prodigious talent and unique wit– was found dead in his home by his wife. He was 46. DFW was a hero to me, a young author who moved fluidly with words through our ill landscape of postmodernity. For every grammatical or […]
They’re throwing a birthday party for me at… RiRa? It’s a big party. The staff has shoved together a bunch of tables to make a huge square table that probably seats at least twenty. And we’re still overflowing into side tables. I work my way around the table, saying hello to everyone, shaking hands. There […]
Writer David Foster Wallace found dead via Los Angeles Times (via a Tweet from jhenry): E-FUCKING-GADS! this is absolutely crushing. Moving Toward Manual Settings: Understanding Basic Daylight Exposure and Equivalent Exposure Evolutionists Flock To Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain via The Onion 10 Everyday Technologies That Can Change the World Va. Supreme Court Strikes Down State’s Anti-Spam […]
In the previous two installments of this series, we discussed two “classic” science fiction games from the PC world: Sierra On-Line’s Outpost and Microprose’s Lightspeed. A theme common to both of those games is a sense of isolation — you’re cut off from the rest of humankind and you’ll have to live by your wits […]
An anagrammatic haiku review of Michael Bay’s film, Transformers: truly a hard-on for these U.S. armed forces and for broken glass →becomes→ try to suck boner for nose-gas. half of us ran. arms heralded red.
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