There’s a short piece in this week’s Time in which I chat with Philip Pullman. It’s here.

There was an advance screening last night. I always forget how awful advance screenings are — a few people who go are fans, but most of the crowd are either college or high school kids who are just after a free movie, and don’t care what they’re seeing, or crazed shut-ins who somehow get on [...]

In a sacred Campari-induced vision this weekend I glimpsed a glorious future in which movie theaters are so tricked-out with high-tech stuff that we will all have to specify on the rare occasions when we happen to see movies in a non-3D, non-iMax (iMin?) format, instead of the other way round. So let me give [...]

EDITOR’S NOTE: Mr. Selman is on holiday. Please enjoy one of his classic column… article… things. Seriously, don’t you know blogs don’t have editors? That’s why they’re all so great.

All right, all right. Enough with the Superman is Jewish already. Time just ran “Superman’s Inner Jew,” in which the debate over whether Superman is Jewish rages on. He does seem at least a little Jewish, right? Think about it: if you pronounce “Superman” and accent the first syllable, “Superman” even sounds like a Jewish [...]

It’s here. I could embed something from YouTube, but you’ll want the hi-def.

I’m on record as thinking, and saying, that Steven Levy, Newsweek’s lead tech writer, is really really smart and really really knowledgeable and a really really good writer. He really really is. I have no desire to get into any kind of blogospherical wrangle. That’s not my thing.

1) Extremely Efficient Caffeine Delivery Systems. The Italians, they’ve really nailed something here. You roll into some hole in the wall, you ask for coffee. They don’t bring you coffee, they bring you espresso, for maximum caffeine density. You don’t even have to sit down if you don’t want to, you just do it like [...]

At Nerd World, there’s a very real mandate to inform the world of nerds about major events in the world of nerd-dom. Well, on Sunday November 18, at 8 PM on Fox, a major nerd event is about to rock your nerd world. An episode of The Simpsons will air, titled “Husbands and Knives,” that [...]