Here’s a good way to pay tribute to J.D. Salinger: use the New York Times interactive map to retrace the steps of Holden Caulfield’s Manhattan bender. You may have to improvise a little, though — not sure you can count on the elevator boy in the Edmont Hotel to get you a prostitute for the [...]

Second Life is a place that, depending on your perspective, represents either the most successful 3D virtual world ever created or a cautionary tale of jumping on the technology bandwagon a little too early. Go to Second Life today and you’ll see what most users encounter most of the time: a huge, desolate virtual world [...]

One of the interesting things about seeing a movie that has been as commercially successful  as Avatar is hearing so much discussion about it before you go and see for yourself what all the hype is about. Now, I religiously avoided any kind of spoiler discussion. But I couldn’t help but notice that the Catholic [...]

I started following Mythbusters on Twitter–literally the only tweets I follow–and they led me this afternoon to this exquisitely beautiful picture of a solar corona, via Discovery News: Here, according to Discovery News, is what a solar corona is, exactly: The solar corona is the magnetically dominated atmosphere of the sun, reaching millions of miles into [...]

So on January 14–my birthday!–I and two other contributors to the Interfictions 2 Anthology gave a reading at the Solas Bar that was sponsored by St. Mark’s Bookstore. Jeffrey Ford and Alaya Dawn Johnson read, respectively, “The War Between Heaven and Hell Wallpaper” and “The Score,” while I got through about half of “The Assimilated [...]