As many of you know by now, there’s a segment of the Korean population that is, or at one time was, crazy about the computer game Starcraft. So crazy about it, in fact, that you see all kinds of kitschy stuff floating around online centered on it. First, I posted a a Starcraft story sung/told in the venerable Korean pansori tradition. This time, it’s a Starcraft cartoon that you can view over at ConnectKorea. I have no idea what most of the song is about, beyond the experience of this poor little alien whose fighting ability is almost nil, but …
Month: March 2005
I Only Wish
This week, Dan asks: What 5 events or things would you like to see in your lifetime but are skeptical that you will? In my lifetime, I’d love to see a controllable form of nanotechnology developed that could be used for general purposes. Unfortunately, I think this will take at least several hundred years, and more likely a few thousand. But it’s be nice to see. I’d love to see massive reforms to what “free market” means, where the legal incentives for being a good business proprietor—and the disincentives not to be a bad one—were delivered down through the ranks …
A Trackback is Like An Open Door
A trackback is like an open door: it beckons, and when you walk through it, you find such a vast array of distractions and entertainments that you can easily spend an hour or two in rapt fascination. I am trying to consolidate my bloglines subscriptions these days, to reduce the number of subscriptions I have, because even though I read my subscriptions mainly in RSS-feed form, I still have over three hundred on my list and can’t keep up. But this morning, I rediscovered the joy of just wandering through a link, over to a bunch of other pages, and …
Now I Didn’t Expect This!
Take the quiz at dicepool.com via Marvin, who’s a mere d6, muhahaha.
The Indefatigable Mr. Sterling
Where does he get his energy? As usual, lots of fascinating stuff going on at Bruce Sterling’s Beyond the Beyond. Bruce explains what he’s doing hanging out with designers (and talks about his writing a little too); discusses the SXSW Conference and his new line of work; delivers some wonderful eye candy; brings up a controversial new Turkish SF novel about a war with America, and points at other works of war-SF; and gently brings the garage experimenters back to our attention. And if you look around, you’ll see all kinds of fascinating things his students have been designing for …