- Reading A Book More Than Once Has Mental Health Benefits | The Mary Sue
- Introducing Playfic – Waxy.org
One for the "when I've got some spare time" file. If it really is as easy to generate interactive fiction as the example here makes it look, then I might take a serious stab at it one of these days.
- Why Mass Effect is the Most Important Science Fiction Universe of Our Generation | Pop Bioethics
So anyone that's spoken to me in the last couple of weeks knows I'm a bit obsessed with Mass Effect. This article does a really good job or articulating a lot of the reasons why. It does contain (generally broad picture) spoilers (with one or two specifics), so if you haven't played them, and think you might yet do so, you should avoid it until you have. But if you have played it, or aren't planning to, and are at all interested in SF, or in issues regarding representation of minorities in media, or in the potential of games as storytelling media, then I recommend reading this.
Tag: sf
Bookmarks for October 27, 2010
- Firesheep usage leads to Idiocy | Netcraft
If only I used a laptop on public wifi I'd set this up…
- How to guard yourself and your Mac from Firesheep and Wi-Fi snooping
This has become a reasonably hot issue in the last week or so, as I hope my post earlier made clear. If you're a Mac user, there's some stuff in here that'll help…
- CleanMyMac – Enjoy your clean Mac with just a few clicks!
Should probably run this at home – I just had a quick check on my work machine, and discovered I could free up 4GB of space, and I suspect that number will be higher at home…
- Fast-Forward: The Future of Science Fiction in Africa
Really interesting article on African SF writing – why there hasn't been much of it historically, and why it's something to really look forward to.
Bookmarks for October 13, 2009
- Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off | Video on TED.com
Once every seven yeats, Sagmeister closes his studio completely for one year. Here, he gives a talk at TED on what he gets from that year, and it's a fascinating and compelling idea. I wonder if I could arrange to take a sabbatical somehow – I've been at this for ten years, and I know my general level of enthusiasm for hacking about with the next is not what it was…
- Charlie's Diary: Why I hate Star Trek
"I can just about forgive the tendency of these programs to hit the reset switch at the end of every episode, returning the universe to pristine un-played-with shape in time for the next dramatic interlude; even though it's the opposite of real SF (a disruptive literature that focusses intently on revolutionary change), I recognize the limits of the TV series as a medium."
Mr Stross hits the nail on the head of why I don't get on with televised SF – I'm less willing to forgive the reset switch for exactly that reason. - The ghost in the field – Blog – BERG
Ever wondered what your oystercard really looks like? The Ghost In The Field shows us the hidden signals underneath fabric of our cities – the invisible maps of data and super-frequency chattering that increasingly underpin our daily lives. What is your data ghost like?
- Derek Powazek – Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists
"Make something great. Tell people about it. Do it again." This is not just a rule for getting web traffic, it is the single simplest rule for a happy life.
Bookmarks for March 9, 2009
- Epic Pooh
Michael Moorcock's essay in which he makes the strong case that Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and their contemporaries were basically writing Winnie-the-Pooh on a grand scale, and that broadly speaking, This Is Not Good Enough.
- Dockland Software – SpaceSuit
Different wallpapers for different Spaces in Leopard.
- susanna hertrich | chrono_shredder
I want one of these. A lot of her other work is worth a look too, but I really want one of these.