Apr 27
Social Media’s Small, Positive Role in Human Relationships is an interesting article. If anything, social media is a counterweight to the ongoing devaluation of human lives. Social media’s rapid rise is a loud, desperate, emerging attempt by people everywhere to connect with *each other* in the face of all the obstacles that modernity imposes on …
Apr 21
For Earth Day, the Toronto Star asked 15 science fiction writers, including me, how we’d tackle climate change. To save some space, my answer was edited down. Here’s my full reply: The environment is something I watch on TV. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, it’s a pristine world free of human interference. But it’s also …
Mar 30
This is an interview that occurred in late January and will be hitting 12 television stations and 80 radio markets in about a week via TVCOGECO. It’s for Brent Holland’s Night Fright Show. Ryan Oakley – Technicolor Ultra-Mall via Skype from Toronto Canada. What if in the future Toronto had been turned into a huge indoor mall? …
Mar 09
These Wire Windups aren’t for sale but they’re still awesome. If only there was a collection of bath-soaps based on The Shield. Via Dangerous Minds
Dec 27
Though he’s probably more controversial in counter-cultural circles than in mainstream ones — who long ago were sold a script and stuck to it– John Lydon might be the one celebrity whose inevitable passing will bother me. It’s always comforting to know he’s out there making someone uncomfortable. I enjoy watching interviews with him and particularly enjoy …
Sep 03
This reminds me of how my wife and I carry on. For some reason, she no longer makes me coffee. via Open Culture
Aug 27
In America, you watch tv. In Soviet Russia . . . Oh never-mind. In America, television will soon be watching you. A company by the name of Flingo has developed a tech called Sync Apps to monitor what you watch on television. It’s already being mass-produced and will be in TVs retailing for $500 by the …
