Okay, kinda scared now . . . Turns out that cats can alter our brains.   I mean literally restructure them. I mean, change our freaking behavior. Well, not cats actually.  A parasite that lives in cats, Toxoplasma gondii. It’s long been known that Toxoplasma can physically alter the brains of rats, to make them sexually […]

  My next ebook will be Aristoi, my insanely ambitious 1992 novel that came within a couple votes of a Hugo nomination. But there’s a problem.  I can’t seem to format it properly. See, parts of Aristoi had a unique structure.  The prose was displayed in two columns, the first a description of what was […]

Friend of the blog Ralf sent me this useful document telling us how to spot terrorists and spies in Internet cafes. Suspicion should be directed, for example, at people who are attempting to maintain privacy while browsing (in a public cafe).  Or folks who use ciphers, or who travel long distances in order to use […]

Via Bruce Sterling, the news that Liam Young and his Tomorrows Thoughts Today cronies have created a cheap drone network capable of embodying a nomad Internet. The key role that the internet has played in the last year of protests and activism was one so important that it saw Governments cut off internet access nationwide […]