I never felt a particularly intense curiosity about the life and personality of Steve Jobs until the night he died. Oh sure, he was a sort of hip entrepreneur from the baby boom, so there was always a glimmer of interest — somewhat along the same lines as the vague interest I would have in the life […]
I hope you had a wonderful thanksgiving. I am sad to say that I did not. My day started out with my mother calling and telling me my father had died early thanksgiving morning. I was so utterly shocked that the only thing I could think to say was “I’m sorry to hear that.â€Â My […]
“Damaged, cyberpunk heroine”, “bisexual cyberpunk avenger”, “horny, cyberpunk hacker”… these are your Google results for Lisbeth + Salander + Cyberpunk, as featured in film reviews courtesy of Movieline, Telegraph, and the increasingly horny and irrelevant Rolling Stone (not a fan of the latter, sue me.) But I am a fan of la protagonista cyberpunk, that […]
In honor of the 48th anniversary of the assassination of JFK — the mother of all conspiracy theories — Craig Baldwin’s amazing trailer for the hilarious and brilliant Tribulation 99.
In late September 2011, scientists at France’s National Institute for Nuclear and Particle Physics Research and Italy’s Gran Sasso National Laboratory fired a beam of neutrinos 454 miles (730 kilometers) underground from Geneva to Italy. Their preliminary results suggested that it traveled 60 nanoseconds faster than light. The researchers, part of the OPERA collaboration, have […]
Philip K Dick with Charles Platt
If you’ve been reading about the electronics industry recently, you’ve probably heard about Intel announcing that it was going to begin making all new transistors in 3 dimensions back in May. It was recently discussed by IEEE Spectrum, and a very good history of the transistor is covered. Even Kurzweil is claiming that his prediction for […]
1. Teevee Light We live in a post-panopticon culture, and everybody’s watching.  Occupiers watch bankers, bankers watch farmers.  Farmers watch their crops in infrared. We all watch: that’s the active media myth we see played out daily.  The same basketball game, the same GigaOM Post, the same Funny or Die short, the same #hashtag:  we are […]
OK you awakened ex-zombies… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUs7BUxJ-o0
Even though the Occupy Wall Street movement has spread to dozens of cities and has become a global movement, there is a nagging sense that camping in the streets isn’t making much of an impact on the people who actually control the money and power. Once upon a time money and power was consolidated into […]
