When the days are long, and the heat is oppressive, and the construction site next door is pouring the smelliest damn asphalt you’ve ever smelt, and you’re starting to get cramps from the stress…well, you know it’s that time of the month. The time of the month when only one …
Well, it’s official. I interviewed Cory Doctorow for a LinuxJournal earlier this week, and just got done transcribing the interview. He’s not the fastest mouth in the west, but man does he talk fast. At the end of the transcription I clocked his word-rate, subtracting out the gaps where I …
This post is mostly for my own benefit, feel free to skip over it if you’re not interested in my dusty brain’s internal gear grindings. As I’ve been researching the current state of the biotech debate for my next two books, I’ve run up against a broad cultural trend that …
I’ve updated my Publications and Media Appearances pages to reflect recent article sales which I’ve been too busy to blog about as they came out, and to list some recent places you can hear me opine about archaic and interesting things. Click on the links in the menu above, and …
So, after finishing Predestination, and getting the last of the edits in this week from my readers, I’m well on the way to recording and mixing it for the podcast. It’s going to be a near thing making a June release date, but so far it looks good. Along those …
My latest appearance out and about in the podosphere is on The Reason Driven Podcast, where I discuss Satan. We go to and fro from the real history of the devil as told in the Bible (it’s not what you heard in church), the history of the devil as a …
When you mix cocaine and heroin, you get a concoction that was once upon a time called a “speedball.” Two highly euphoric drugs married together to marinate your synapses in life-destroying pleasure — what could be better? Well, how about two consecutive months of two articles per month in LinuxJournal? …
Well, my fellow revolutionaries, I must confess I’ve been more than a little delinquent. Therefore, following the classic politician’s formula, I offer up my confession in the passive voice: Articles were published, but I did nothing. Podcasts were produced, but I remained silent. Copious words poured forth from my keyboard, …
“There’s nothing worse than having an itch you can never scratch.” -Leon, Blade Runner Dr. Seuss wrote marvelous childrens books filled with clever word plays that kept them interesting for the adults that had to read them over, and over, and over. His books were like crack for two year …
Hey guys, big stuff today. First off, the new episode of Sculpting God is up on the feed. For this episode, I take you way, way, way back to the very beginning of the world, to tell you the REAL story of what happened with a certain apple in a …