Emotivation

August 28, 2012

“Scientists,” who are always nameless in these kinds of reports, claim that they are now able to “hack” the brain with a $299 off-the-shelf mind-machine interface. Using an Emotiv interface, “researchers” (as they are also known) could read the P300 signal coming off the brain.  When showing the subjects images of banks, faces, and PIN […]

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Bubonicon and Chicon Schedule

August 24, 2012

The next two weekends I’ll be successively at Bubonicon 44, in Albuquerque, and at Chicon, the World Science Fiction Convention, in Chicago.  Here’s my schedule, should you be at either of these events and want to meet me. Bubonicon 44 Friday, Aug 24. 9:30PM.  Panel # 6 – PUMP UP THE VOLUME: WRITING BIG SCIENCE […]

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Happily Hebrew

August 23, 2012

Behold the Israeli editions of Metropolitan, This Is Not a Game, and Implied Spaces. If reading right-to-left is your thing, check these out.  

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In Which A Camera Is Pointed At Me, and I Talk

August 23, 2012

JeanMarie Ward from Buzzymag.com interviewed me at last May’s Nebulas, and this is the result. I can tell that I hadn’t had yet had my coffee. Walter Jon Williams Video Interview | Buzzy Mag.

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The Kickstarter War

August 22, 2012

Two veteran freedom fighters have begun a Kickstarter campaign to finance their trip to Syria, to participate in the rebellion against the government of Bashar al-Assad. Libyan Masood Bwisir and American journalist and filmmaker Matthew vanDyke participated in the Libyan rebellion, and vanDyke spend six months in one of Gaddafi’s jails before escaping. The money […]

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Missed Opportunities

August 21, 2012

So I finally saw The Dark Knight Rises— two or three weeks later than most of you, I’m sure— and I was inspired, both by this movie and Spider-Man 3,  to create the following rule: “Directors, if you’re helming the third installment of a superhero franchise, for God’s sake don’t let your brother write the […]

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Pussies in Prison

August 20, 2012

(No, this isn’t a post about Paul Ryan’s views on family planning.  Or a review of Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS.  This is about art, dammit!) Last February, the Russian all-girl punk band Pussy Riot initiated a 30-second demonstration in a Moscow cathedral in which they called upon the Virgin to save Russia from Vladimir […]

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Travel Envy

August 17, 2012

The winners of the National Geographic Traveler Photos Contest have been posted.  (Strangely, at the Atlantic.) Check them out.  Bask in their glory.

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I Am On Vacation

August 15, 2012

I’ve come up the mountain to Snow Bear for a few nights.  And you know what I have to do while I’m up here? Absolutely nothing! I’m on vacation.  My first actual vacation in a long time. I’ve been doing a lot of traveling this year.  I’ve been to D.C. twice, to Seattle, to San […]

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My Olympia

August 11, 2012

Every four years, during the Olympics, I find myself almost caring about sports.   (It’s not that I’m too good to be a sports fan or anything, I just don’t have a lot of time to be a fan of anything but good writing.) But now, as the great thundering $15 billion spectacle staggers towards its […]

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