Change is the Only Cons...

As proud member of GenX, I see our generation’s most enduring cultural trait being our ability to deconstruct and reconstruct almost everything we touch. From media, to science, to politics, it seems that our creative leaders can pull the engines of thought apart and recreate them as...

Brubaker’s Angel ...

Ed Brubaker is one of my favorite comic writers. He’s jumped over to film by doing an original series for Crackle, Sony’s internet video site. It’s a direct to web series called Angel of Death, a noir action mashup with plenty of bullets and blood. The limited budget...

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...

EA makes a Spore choice...

  There’s a war raging over at Amazon right now as a loosely organized group of frustrated users are using the Amazon rating system as a way to voice their deep disappointment with the DRM that’s being used on Spore. If you haven’t been following along, the...

Death Star over San Fra...

I’ve long ago reached my limit of excitement over Star Wars, but there’s always something entertaining about putting the fantastic next to the mundane. In this case it’s “Imperial Fleet Week” in San Francisco: Between this and Target:Women, it’s nice...