There’s been some hoopla about a fan-modified version of the protagonist in the Parkour video game Mirror’s Edge. Image here:

The fan added a rounder face, reshaped the eyes, and utilized an industry-standard Photoshop boob job.
I’m sorta on the fence on the developer’s hardline stance here — I think fan fiction is [...]

Watching David Attenborough’s Life in the Freezer got me interested again in what’s going on at the international South Pole station.
It’s called the Amundsen-Scott Station, named after the first men to arrive there in 1911/1912. It used to be a couple of underground rooms, and then it was a geodesic dome. [...]

Now reading:

I really liked Malcolm Gladwell’s Tipping Point and Blink; I’ve read various criticisms of both books and I agree that Gladwell’s findings may not be entirely sound — but the anecdotes and stories he’s collected are just so darned interesting that I gobble up his books like candy.
How can you [...]

Okay, so Netflix to Xbox streaming is freakin awesome. It is the thing of the week. Having instant access to a fairly large library of titles is pretty darned great. There are a few hiccups — sometimes it’ll lowball the bandwidth for no apparent reason, delivering painfully compressed video. But [...]

So I’ve got to go back into workshop soon on Year Zero. Year Zero is a play about personal history, so I’ve been revisiting that subject a lot in my mind lately. I think that transmitting your personal history through storytelling is incredibly important; it lets us understand and come to [...]