I was intrigued when I’d heard that George Lucas believed in this movie so much that he financed it himself.  Apparently the Hollywood studios— staffed of course by all those Hollywood liberals we hear so much about— declined to finance a war epic about black people. I was very impressed that Lucas was so committed […]

2011 Toolbox grad (and computer legend) Jeff Dunteman has written a totally unsolicited (by me, anyway) description of Taos Toolbox over on Inkpunks. Walter and Nancy are both superb teachers and are not to be missed. I was startled, though, at how much I learned from my thirteen student colleagues, not solely through their critique […]

Just last week I was grousing about the exclusivity and the egregious contract connected with with Apple’s iBooks Author. Now I hear that Atavist, better known for long-form journalism and for producing original fiction to be read on hand-held devices, is on the cusp of releasing their new software, which (they say) will do everything […]

I found myself in a strange relationship with this movie.  It’s a Korean film based on the classic Chinese historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong, and though I haven’t read the book, I’ve played the video game.  Koei’s classic MS-DOS-based game was one of my favorites from the 1980s, and not […]