I’m a big fan of Bruce Sterling, not only as a sf writer but also as a design thinker. He’s good at distilling a lot of seemingly-disparate information into consumable bits and then mixing those up into some very interesting ideas.

Bruce Sterling from Innovationsforum on Vimeo.

Saw this on Warren Ellis’ blog, a Steampunks Guide to the Apocalypse.

Peter Watts‘ latest book messed with my head.
We, as a species, can communicate. But what is it that we are communicating?

I wrote about 300 already.
Unfortunately what I said wasn’t entirely accurate. To analyze my two predictions:
This looks like a special-effects funhouse.
This was true.
But moreso, it doesn’t look bad.
This was false. One for two.
I said it to friends after seeing the movie, coworkers later, and I’ll repeat it here. The movie just made me want to [...]

Fantastic Metropolis. What happened to it? Are there any spiritual successors? What am I missing?

I wish I could be in Seattle to see this.

A teaser trailer. This looks like a special-effects funhouse. But moreso, it doesn’t look bad. And they utilized quite well a Nine Inch Nails song. This is based on a Frank Miller graphic novel. (Saw this on Crooked Timber.)

It’s been nigh unto too long since I really put some meaty content on this blog, and in the spirit of staying relevant, interesting and committed, I’d like to follow up on something I wrote about earlier.
I wrote about Hellgate: London, and I meant a few things which I probably didn’t get across all too [...]

I mentioned earlier that I am taking an online course to finish my degree. I needed four credits in order to graduate, so I thought to myself, “Why don’t I just take a 5-credit course over the summer and get it done with.” What I didn’t know was that while one can take summer-school courses [...]