It’s been bouncing around the Net in shaky-cam amateur-vision, but now the Quicktime version is up. It’s here.
I’ve been working on a fantasy novel for the past few years. Adult fantasy, I guess you’d call it. Whatever that means. Anyway we’re getting close enough to publication that I’ve finally reached the point where I’m supposed to draw the map. I guess I could have started with it, but to be honest I [...]
In the very brief period of my life when I was extroverted and not introverted — circa ages 7-9 — I appeared in my elementary school’s production of A Charlie Brown Christmas as Charlie Brown. I still have the yellow shirt with the ziggy black line. Ironically I now have a bald round Charlie Brown [...]
It’s the end of the year, so here at Nerd World we’re putting our own scientific spin on Time’s many Top Ten lists. We’ve collected the Top Ten most amazing photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope over the last 16 years. Enjoy!
It turns out that Australia is pretty far away. When you look up the flights on Expedia, next to the flight times there’s a little note that says +2 days. I don’t even think they’re taking into account relativistic effects with that number. I’m heading for Sydney on Monday, and that means I’m looking at [...]
When I first saw the trailer for The Sky Crawlers, a movie by Mamoru Oshii, the guy who made the cyberpunk classic Ghost in the Shell, I thought: eh, he’s gone in for some kind of historical deal about fighter pilots. Pretty, but come on! More ghosts! More shells! Dude only makes a movie about [...]
I made one. I do it every year! They make me.
Special weekend edition! If there was a special National Magazine Award for criticism written while extremely hungover, I think this piece would be a real contender.
By which I mean that. My colleague James Poniewozik has seen Dollhouse and blogged about it. He makes a good point:
I was never a huge Tomb Raider guy. I get it that Lara Croft is remarkably attractive. I’m just not really a puzzle-solving, box-jumping sort of fellow. And once you take that away, all you’ve got is an average-looking shooter with a hinky camera and lightweight weapons (and nowhere near enough of them). When I [...]
