Random things I learned at Podcamp London 2010
Here are some random things I learned while attending the very cool Podcamp London today: Search.Twitter.com can be used to find people with similar interests in your...
A bas les aristos!
I recently read The Scarlet Pimpernel (text, audio, movie) by Baroness Orczy, and ran into a bit of an interesting philosophical quandry while I was reading it....
To Free or Not to Free 2- The Revenge
Last night I was chatting with a friend and discussing the audiobooks conundrum mentioned earlier this week- if you give the audiobook away for free, will they...
Facial Reconstriction
What do Avatars, Actors and Porn Stars all have in common? All of them are looking for the perfect facial expression. The other week when listening to...
They should just ask some kids to do it.
The city of Detroit is starting to follow other cities like Flint and has plans to tear down the massive swaths of empty run-down homes that cover...
The Affidavit of Isaac Woodward
In an extremely powerful piece of radio history, Orson Welles lets loose with both barrels against Southern Racism after a young black man named Isaac Woodward is...
Media Anxiety
One of my friends, Don, is always getting pissed off at the media for various reasons, but one of his big complaints (okay, besides that they’re outright...
Trees
I live in the city of London, Ontario- also known as “The Forest City” because of the sheer number of trees interwoven in between the buildings. In...
The Hard Balance- Accessibility versus Readability in SF and Fantasy
Something I had to struggle with when I started to write Twin Stars was the simple question of how much Science Fiction I wanted to put into...
January 18, 2010
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Century of the Self
Perhaps one of the greatest documentaries ever done by the BBC. It literally explains how the general population went from being Citizens to Consumers during the 20th...