I’m a late convert to PvP, which has been online since, god, like 1998 or something. I’ve always been a big Penny Arcade fan, and Tycho made fun of PvP in his newsposts, and I just never got around to reading it. Then I realized that they’re all pals, and Tycho was just taking the [...]
Featuring two movies I’m definitely going to see five years from now when they’re being rerun on basic cable for the 90th time.
This rant at Gizmodo is right about gadget-bloggers, and technology journalism in general. It’s also pretty amusing.
I can’t help but think that the whole RFID tag phenomenon is just going to get weirder. You know, those miniature data tags that are getting stuck in everything. Hit ‘em with a radio signal and they ping you back with a tiny scrap of info. Companies like Wal-Mart stick them in products to help [...]
I’m not doing one. I’m not feeling it. I’ll leave it to someone else to make fun of Google’s L-less Valentine’s Day logo. (Googe responds to the controversy here.)
I find computer viruses endlessly fascinating. This is partly because as a smug, self-satisfied Mac user, I don’t see them very often. It’s also because my first cover story at Time was about the Love Bug, the 2000 megavirus that at the time seemed like the harbinger of the coming cyberapocalypse. (I still don’t see [...]
I reviewed it. I reviewed it here.
Bookslut points me to this — to all appearances — justifiably savage review of Spider-man: Reign #3. The Reign mini-series is set 35 years in the future, with a middle-aged Spidey — yaar, spoilers — mourning the death of his beloved Mary Jane. (There’s a 10-page preview from the first issue here.) What killed Mary [...]
I know I’m coming late to this story, but is it intriguing to anyone else that someone or -ones tried to kill the Internet last week? Last Tuesday, at 5:30 in the morning, a massive denial of service attack was directed at the root servers that route traffic on the Internet. The Internet did not, [...]
On April 17 Houghton Mifflin will publish The Children of Húrin, a “new” work of fiction by J.R.R. Tolkien:
My knowledge of physics and engineering is shaky enough that sometimes I forget that stuff like neutron stars and superconductors is actually real and not made-up. (If Slaver stasis fields are real and not made-up, somebody needs to tell me.) Scheduled to cross the fiction/non-fiction barrier shortly is a commercially available quantum computer. The British [...]
