Wide Aperture

Clay Shirky’s new book, Here Comes Everybody is at once highly readable and a massive undertaking. He sets out to explain, as many recent authors have done, how new communication technologies and the people who use them are changing the world we live in. This is a task so large that, to my [...]

Clay Shirky’s new book, Here Comes Everybody is at once highly readable and a massive undertaking. He sets out to explain, as many recent authors have done, how new communication technologies and the people who use them are changing the world we live in. This is a task so large that, to my [...]

60 Second Science—Well, sort of. Fans of classic science fiction and/or campy Disney films will recall that squid and humans have a score to settle. But Captain Nemo will be happy to hear that our cephalopod friends may have finally repaid their debt to humankind.
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara, my alma mater, have discovered a [...]

Good news! This site’s now topped 1000 unique visitors since I installed the stat counter in late December. I dunno how many folks were here before that—I’ve had this site for years, but there hasn’t been much going on ’til recently. Of late, I’ve been posting more regularly, my friends have been [...]

Clay Shirky’s new book, Here Comes Everybody is at once highly readable and a massive undertaking. He sets out to explain, as many recent authors have done, how new communication technologies and the people who use them are changing the world we live in. This is a task so large that, to my [...]

Army of Darkness was on television today. For those of you unfamiliar with the cult phenomenon, it’s one of two sequels to the 1981 bargain-basement horror film, The Evil Dead - a franchise created by writer-director Sam Raimi, who’s currently rolling in sackloads of cash after two hit Spiderman movies.
When I lived in Los Angeles, [...]

My first video is up today at the Ventura County Star’s website.
Here’s a link to the accompanying story. Photo credit: John Nichols Gallery