obama advertises on Xbox
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008Interesting. via Andew Sullivan. The actual ad in the game is a reminder that early voting has started. Not message oriented at all. Mobilization oriented to a demographic he has been cultivating.
Archive for October, 2008
Interesting. via Andew Sullivan. The actual ad in the game is a reminder that early voting has started. Not message oriented at all. Mobilization oriented to a demographic he has been cultivating.
glass-topped stoves
Monday, October 13th, 2008dumbest consumer "improvement" ever. 1) anything that spills over the pot automatically burns on the glass. 2) any water underneath a kettle causes the kettle to magically levitate and slide off the burner as the water turns to steam. 3) it's not as hot as a traditional coil stove. 4) it's not as adjustable ...
McCain, when did you put Hindus on your hit list?
Monday, October 13th, 2008I actually liked McCain, back in the day when he was against "agents of intolerance" as he called the Christian right. These days he's a got a pastor opening a crowd in Iowa with the following: "I also would also pray, Lord, that your reputation is involved in all that ...
The Windup Girl is DONE
Saturday, October 11th, 2008Just shipped it out to my agent. The final word count is 140,000 after a 12,000-word haircut in the last round of revisions, and I am very happy to have the thing out of my hands. I was starting to rearrange sentences and individual words, and then re-rearrange them, ...
One fast sail boat
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008l'Hydroptere has broken through the 50-knot barrier with a hydrofoil-packing trimaran. Cool stuff.
video games as gateway to reading?
Sunday, October 5th, 2008This seems a bit like saying that gourmet food is a gateway to opera, but the NY Times has a story about how book publishers and libraries are trying to use video games to get kids interested in reading. Silly me, I would have thought that you would just use ...
No matter how many times you check it, it still doesn't change the fact that you haven't sent out any yourself.
Neal Stephenson and perseverance
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008WIRED has an excellent article on Neal Stephenson's latest book, ANATHEM. The book sounds like a good read, but buried in the article was an informative bit of Stephenson's back story that I wanted to pull out. His early books, a satire about big universities and an eco-thriller, were ...
Fast Forward 2
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008is released. My novelette "The Gambler" is in it. Over at Pyr's website, you can read Paul Cornell's "Catherine Drewe" in its entirety. Lou calls it, "a tale of a Bond-like character in an alternate history where the Great Game never ended and the British Empire - along ...
Economic Meltdown vs. Global Meltdown
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008Pop Quiz: which of these is more important? A. The banking industry is in free fall and the problem is spreading. B. There's methane bubbling out of the Arctic. To me, the really interesting thing about this period in history is the amount of uncertainty over what story lines will dominate our ...
