A writer who goes by the name of Dr. Wicked (general blog here) has developed what I think may be the most genuinely helpful app when it comes to defeating the agony of the blank page: Write or Die. Now in version 2.0, Write or Die encourages you — according to the site, through “Operant [...]

I put up my thoughts about the Watchmen movie not so long ago, and I stick by them. But I have to say, I wrote that review for a world that understood that it is a fundamentally good film. I pointed out little flaws, like directorial choices that made Rorschach a little less psychotic than he should have [...]

And if you don’t believe me, watch this video from Wired of a mouse being forced to run to its left. So what you’re watching is a mouse that has had its brain modified by neuroengineers. It was modified through the use of genetically engineered viruses that they injected directly into the mouse’s skull (so [...]

It’s all over the blogosphere (here, here, and here, for instance): a woman calling herself Teresa was banned from Xbox Live for announcing in her profile that she was a lesbian. The story first broke on The Consumerist, a site that I’d never heard of before, but that didn’t much seem to try and get [...]