Monthly Archives: February 2003

Excellent interview with Cory Doctorow about Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.

Monte Cook has advice on running 3rd edition D&D without miniatures.

CNN on Bruce Sterling’s new non-fiction Tomorrow Now: Envisioning The Next Fifty Years.

Ask information-design guru Edward Tufte your questions in this moderated forum

Gene Weingarten interviews the author of what he thinks is the worst novel ever published. Me: It is possible that some people might have found the plot a little improbable. They might find it hard to believe that, in order … Continue reading →

USA Today on Rhapsody.

Last week I tried out Listen.com‘s Rhapsody music service for free and now I’m hooked. Kuro5hin has a pretty detailed review of Rhapsody but I don’t use the service like the author does. I don’t really have any interest in … Continue reading →

The Gamers is now available on VHS. Monte Cook described it this way: A bunch of college guys are in a room playing D&D. The movie switches back and forth between them playing the game, and showing what their characters … Continue reading →

Cory Doctorow reviews William Gibson’s latest novel. If Case, the console cowboy of Neuromancer were alive today, he’d deinstall whatever proprietary crapola OS shipped with his Ono-Sendai Cyberspace Deck, find a decent Debian build, and install [Mozilla]. Then, before his … Continue reading →

On the campaign trail with the un-Bush.

Neat blizzard slideshow at NYTimes.

Ah ha. I was right, Bush doesn’t want to give any of the African AIDS money to family planning groups. Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee, said the policy is a positive step because it … Continue reading →