The advent of the internet has meant the arrival of all sorts of programming serving niches that were, until now, ill-served by the mainstream media. For instance, a series of “let’s put random crap in a microwave and see what happens?” Then there’re Lovcraftian talk shows: And the Sith Lords Read more…
I you’re a conspiracy buff like I am, but you’re sick of only hearing about birther/truther type stuff, I have a podcast for you: No Agenda. I’ve been a Dvorak fan for a while from This Week in Tech (Leo rules) and Cranky Geeks, (you can find all these on Read more…
The interview I mentioned earlier is now up on the blog Grinding to Valhalla. Relevant quote: Would you have any words of advice for the would-be-writers out there? Two things. First, only pursue this if what you love, and what you want out of it, is the writing. It takes Read more…
Prepare yourself for the great Libertarian/Transhumanist cage match. And here you can read about the resulting internet kerfuffle. Sort of the philosophical equivalent of a flame-war between furries and trekkies.
The world is now safe for Nazi garden gnomes. (via) Apparently opposition to Obamacare by Democrats is racist. CNN’s Rick Sanchez is no sellout, but he is an asshat. We all know that the MSM never runs with a non-story with little or no info. That’s what the internet does.
But I have to acknowledge this post at No Fear of the Future: The Gothic writers used the model of Milton’s Satan and the Sensibility/dämonisch to create the Hero-Villain, the dominant villain of the Gothic genre. The Hero-Villain commits evil but is never purely evil. He is a mix of Read more…
UPDATE: Fixed dick quote attribution. I have mentioned before that there are certain rules that authors should abide by when gliding across this meadow of rainbows and unicorn farts we call the internet. It is not all smileys and lolcats out there, and forewarned is forearmed. Anyway, most rules boil Read more…
The Dutch government wants to tax the internet to fund print media. To put a finer point on it, the Dutch have come up with the swell idea that the way to save print journalism is to tax another, different, sector of the economy. Now as a friend said on Read more…
Boing-Boing tells us of a lil Canadian think-tank report. The Conference Board of Canada (sounds so official, I trust them already) who’re self-characterized as “the foremost, independent, not-for-profit applied research organization in Canada. Objective and non-partisan. We do not lobby for specific interests” (you know they’re independent, they said so.) Read more…
Inspired by a couple of panels I was on at Marcon: Never post anything you wouldn’t want read by your boss, spouse, child, or grandmother. Never “correct” reviews of your work. You can ignore them, or point out they exist, but don’t start an argument with a critic. Even if Read more…