Iran to Send US Toy Drone

You can't say the ruling Mullahs don't have a sense of humor. In response to US demands that Iran return a RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone that went down over the eastern part of Iran, the country's leaders...

Friends Do Neat Things

Regular readers will be familiar with Canadian futurist and ethicist George Dvorsky, whose excellent site Sentient Developments explores topics related to science, technology, human performance and the moral...

Divine the Economy

The stock market has sure been twitchy lately, hasn't it? But that's not all. What with the economic turmoil in Europe, the perennial threat of our own government being shut down by further gridlock...

The Look of Love

"The Look of Love" is impeccably executed by ABC, a band from the New Romantic wing of the UK New Wave. There's no more perfect crystallization of 1980s production techniques — from the keyboard...

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Iran to Send US Toy Drone
You can't say the ruling Mullahs don't have a sense of humor. In response to US demands that Iran return a RQ-170 Sentinel...
Friends Do Neat Things
Regular readers will be familiar with Canadian futurist and ethicist George Dvorsky, whose excellent site Sentient Developments...



Divine the Economy
The stock market has sure been twitchy lately, hasn't it? But that's not all. What with the economic turmoil in Europe,...
The Look of Love
"The Look of Love" is impeccably executed by ABC, a band from the New Romantic wing of the UK New Wave. There's no more...



About a "Girl"
There's been tremendous buzz around director David Fincher's interpretation of the novel Girl With the Dragon Tattoo — the beach book to end all beach books. By now, anyone with a pulse knows that Fincher's film follows a Swedish movie that received high marks from critics and audiences. Having just seen the American translation, I can say outright that it tops the Swedish version, and also manages...

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Overbroad and Undercooked: Dangerous Bills in Congress
One of the reasons I haven't been posting much is that I'm spending every spare bit of my energy trying to make sure a pair of ill-conceived pieces of legislation do not become law (at least in their current form). The bills in question are the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House of Representatives, and the PROTECT-IP Act in the Senate. (Of the two, SOPA is the worst.) Now, both of these...

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The Contrarian - "Arjuna" 5-Song Teaser
From the upcoming album Arjuna, by The Contrarian. Check out Lux Eterna Records for more sonic goodness...

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Save Speech, Stop SOPA
I've censored the following, in protest of a bill that gives any corporation and the US government the power to censor the internet — legislation that could pass THIS WEEK. To see the uncensored text, and to stop internet censorship, visit: http://americancensorship.org/posts/15233/uncensor The ████████ is too █████████ to ████ up. █████...

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