Total Eclipse

Cory Doctorow has recently posted a couple of interesting posts having to deal with ‘fanfiction’ on the best blog on all of the internets, BoingBoing. There is a notion of “original” work compared with “derivative” work, and the legal differences between these supposed separate states of affair. Creators hold intellectual property rights to their works [...]

regurgitated from my livejournal, too busy to write new content. I don’t remember the day I first connected to the internet. Strange, as in retrospect, it was quite a landmark day, worthy of a flashbulb memory. Like I have of The Day Rabin was Assasinated. Oddly enough, I remember that when Rabin was shot, I [...]

Have you ever felt something best expressed in music? That words are like shadow-things, falling just off your true mean, but music, as in, like a metaphor, somehow manages to “show” what you mean? A kind of close approximation sense, but still more real than any words could ever refer to. I’m working on a [...]

Please sir tell me why there’s no black Superman, KKK Kryptonite? “God only makes caucasian superheroes.” Please sir tell me why we stick a Man on The Moon when life on Earth’s so cheap. “Son, we gotta do our bit for the world trade deficit.” Please sir tell me why if ‘God is love’ I’m [...]

S: “Violence is justified in the service of mankind.” B: “Who said that?” S: “Attila the hun.” B: “You’re quoting a hun to me??” (Woody Allen, Love & Death, 1975) Came back from watching journalist and geekc0re pre-premiere viewing of V for Vendetta, The Watchowski (The Matrix) bros. adaptation to film of one of my [...]

Yesterday I attended a symposium by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics on the subject of Synaesthesia; Seeing the Voices: A multi-disciplinary view of Synaesthesia and Cross-modal Transfers. Speakers included Roland Posner (TU – Berlin), Daniel Algom (My psychophysics and cogpsy prof.), Gerald C Cupchik (University of Toronto), and others. It was particularly interesting [...]

Yes, I know I’m not supposed to post anymore, but fuck it. This really gets to me. I’ve been so busy with The Bright Spimeworld Future vs. The Grim Meathook Future, I almost let myself forget the future I really aspire too. The one we were promised, damnit. The Airstream Futuropolis. With flying cars, and [...]

This week has been more than hectic, ergo, I haven’t had much time coming up with constructive and at least somewhat interesting things to write about. I tried starting a discussion over at The Engine concering webcomics and a how they could possibly become analogus to ye olde artscene, with the advent of ACT-I-VATE, a [...]

I’m too busy to actually think through a complete post, but I feel like I need to update, so just some random things I’ll try to make seem as if they correlate to one another:The Washington Post has an interesting article on how the speed of information is helping break through The Great Firewall of [...]

Shakespeare in the bush by Laura Bohannan (from Natural History, Aug/Sept. 1966) Just before I left Oxford for the Tiv in West Africa, conversation turned to the season at Stratford. “You Americans,” said a friend, “often have difficulty with Shakespeare. He was, after all, a very English poet, and one can easily misinterpret the universal [...]