This is a hoax. (Despite what you may have seen on CNN.) This is only a hoax. (Despite what you may have read in the Daily Telegraph.) Do not consume except with a dose of salt. If they built this thing, they would have no way of controlling it and it would crash and kill […]

Locus magazine has bowed to the inevitable and put This Is Not a Game on their end-of-the-year recommended reading list. The other stuff on the list isn’t too shabby, either!

While I was enjoying a pleasurably distracting weekend and unable to properly follow events, a huge earth-shaking contretemps broke out between publisher Macmillan/St. Martin’s/Tor and Amazon, to determine which business model will prevail on the Internets of the Future. The whole thing seems to have flown past in an eyeblink, to what some are claiming […]

Yesterday I saw Terry Gilliam’s new movie The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus— yes, a month or more after the rest of you saw it— and I came out of the theater with a theory. But first, a brief review. The movie is dreadfully slow. Much of the dialog just meanders about and doesn’t advance the […]