Metaphor in Media...

There’s a joke that I made up a while back that goes like this: What’s a Metaphor? It’s for when the regular one isn’t big enough. And that’s more than just a bad pun, because a metaphors can be powerful stuff. Using one pushes an idea beyond the original...

The Dentistry Interface...

It’s not surprising that people don’t like to visit the dentist. From the doctor’s point of view the user interface is your head. He sticks in a series of pointy tools such as drills and suction tubes as his controllers, and the goal of the game is not only to...

You Don’t Know Wh...

The speech at Penny Arcade Expo ended up being full to overflowing, and it turns out that Gamers weren’t the only people in attendance. There was some press as well. One might not expect the producer and designer of the original Petz to attract a big crowd at the hardcore gaming...

Gina the Concept Car...

Sometimes Science Fiction doesn’t have to be a story. Sometimes it can just be an...

Christopher Nolan maint...

Far more shocking to me than a failed blockbuster, is the idea that anything with that many people working on it, and that much attention, could ever be creatively cohesive and successful. Like a military campaign, it takes a unique kind of leadership to not only have the vision, but to...