re-understanding computing
I was reading this blog post on the expanding notion of what computing is, over at Broader perspective. I like the inclusion of ideas from the biological realm, because it’s one of those areas which...
View ArticleDistrict9 vs the ‘America under attack’ meme
I haven’t seen district 9, [update: saw it, loved it, a bit gappy in backstory but no matter]… but just the fact that it’s NOT set in america is going to be a breath of fresh air… …all of which...
View Article2010, and a belated viewing of ‘2001: Space Odyssey’
I promised myself that passing snippets every few years on telly would not suffice, and that I needed to see for myself the whole thing, from beginning to end, properly… and to find out what all the...
View ArticleJodorowsky and his Dune
I was supposed to see the 12:00 showing. I didn’t. I fell into a phonecall lurking in some region of space-time that also happened to hold my already unfashionably late trajectory to the Tiff Bell...
View ArticleGalactica Finale – oh what a tangled web we leave
You know, we can’t keep making excuses for the writers and producers of this show, however much we might love them for bringing us this gritty world of bot-humans, quaintly pointless octagonals and a...
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