If you can come up with a better example of manufactured pop culture than this, I’d like to see. A shrink for a producer, two teenage Russian girls, a techno beat and lots of lesbian sexual themes. A good example of U.S. pop culture being taking to an extreme and pushed right back at us. [...]
I’ve been a fan of Wired Magazine since issue number 1. Many think the collection of striped magazine covers that are still displayed on one of my bookshelves should be discarded, but I won’t budge. This issue marks Wired’s 10th anniversary and there is a great recap of the past ten years and the excellent [...]
I had the occassion to eat and drink with Bruce Sterling several years ago, so whenever I read something like this, I can picture him delivering with the typical Sterling zest: “Let me put this to you straight: cyberspace has become a slum. It’s a diseased slum, festering with Microsoft Outlook viruses. The viruses turn [...]
Blogging has momentum. William Gibson is on-line and operating a blog that gets updated daily. It provides for great reading from one of my favorite authors of all time. If you haven’t had a chance to check out his latest book “Pattern Recognition”, I highly recommend it. Just today, he posted the following information regarding [...]
In 1994, I wrote a paper that looked at issues relating to virtual reality and philosophy. One of my main arguments was that true pervasive virtual reality, where the user couldn’t distinguish or remember the real world, was closely aligned to concepts of Hinduism. Since then, we had several movies on the topic, including the [...]
An interesting twist to an old debate…”Now a former White House chief of staff and an international investigative journalist want to know what the Pentagon knows, calling on it to release classified files about that and other incidents involving unidentified flying objects, or UFOs. ” CNN.com – Clinton aide slams Pentagon’s UFO secrecy – Oct. [...]
A picture with the U.S. Ambassador to NZ taken during my recent trip. I found both the Ambassador and his staff to be extremely professional to deal with.
This picture was taken while I was in New Zealand. After flying through a valley and along a river, the pilot set us down on top of the highest peak in the area.
The devost.net domain has been officially moved to the new server and new site format. Unfortunately, my previous hosting provider had serious billing issues and I won’t be using them any more.
I stole this from Eric’s site. It is an interesting implementation of a search engine with graphical results displayed in a spider’s web format with the most significant hit showing up at the largest node. I especially like results that are returned for the keyword “terrorism”. Visit Kartoo
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