December 2010
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5 New Years Tech Resolutions To Keep You Alive In... →
[Not my usual style, but here’s a fun little number I did for the holiday, combining year-in-tech recaps with some irreverent and moderately substantiated prophecy; Happy New Solar Cycle, y’all.]
The double-0’s are double-over, and with all the kerfuffle that’s gone on in the past 365 earth rotations, there’s never been a better time to re-assess your role on this lonely planet...
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Ode To A Blip Festival: REFORMAT THE PLANET DVD... →
It was an especially cold December in New York City this year. And it had nothing to do with the massive blizzard that was whipping 18 inches of snow around at speeds up to 35 mph. It had to do with the fact that, for the first time in a long while, the five boroughs (and indeed the world) was bereft of the joyous celebration known as The Blip Festival, the largest chip music festival that...
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What Wikileaks Crackdowns Say About The Game Our... →
[In my latest piece on Motherboard, I’m considering the ‘game’ mechanics inherent in foreign policy, and the real reason Wikileaks threatens the players of a broken, game-like system of international diplomacy]
Remember a while ago when the World Trade Center blew up and we blamed that one guy who sent us tons of videos from his secret supervillain hideaway in the mountains...