About a year ago I wrote an article for H+ magazine on the use of quadrotors for a variety of purposes, ranging from VR telepresence units to sensor platforms for dangerous environments to construction. So, you can imagine my reaction on reading this article on Singularity Hub. In short, it’s about a demonstration of robotic […]
“Am I processing  my sensory  information  via Circuit Four: • Am I concerned or motivated by my family or sexual relationships? • Am I horny? • Am I motivated by the way I appear to others, in regard to my masculinity, femininity, or androgyny?” The following excerpt is from BRAIN MAGICK: EXERCISES IN META-MAGICK AND INVOCATION by Philip Farber .  Check out the entire book! The Nature […]
“When I was a kid we had a rotary phone and you had to stand next to it and dial it.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itn8TwFCO4M&feature=youtu.be
A recent article on Slate proclaims “Why Second Life Failed.” Assuming you buy into the author’s overall viewpoint, it makes a decent case. In essence, SL was touted as a “revolutionary solution” for a job it really wasn’t qualified to do. The problem is that this viewpoint shows a profoundly limited understanding of what Second […]
I met Marc Franklin (aka Lord Nose) in 1984, when I was putting together a little magazine called High Frontiers (with our first issue, we declared ourselves “the official psychedelic magazine of the 1984 Summer Olympics†— no one else rose up to challenge us for the title). High Frontiers would eventually become Mondo 2000 […]
As the US Senate passed a law this week that would allow the US Government to hold anyone anywhere in detention without trial for an indefinite time, we listen to The Clash…
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.
