Dispatches since 2005
The journal
Announcements, new editions, travel, diving, cooking and the working life of a novelist — 2 entries, all of them here in full.
December 31, 2005 · 96 words
The Second-Coolest Thing
The second-coolest thing I’ve encountered lately is pandora.com. Type in a favorite song, or a favorite performer, and a little invisible machine will start chugging out music of a similar stripe. The engine is not perfect— it judges a song based on its instrumentation and style rather than its content, which means you
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Despair
I would like to inaugurate this blog, and the New Year, with a cheerful little holiday essay entitled Despair As a science fiction writer, I like to create future worlds that are, for lack of a better word, gnarly. (It occurs to me that Rudy Rucker used the word in a somewhat different context in […]
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