As I've probably mentioned, good movies and bad movies - for me - have one similar point: I dwell on them. The key difference is with a good movie, I find more reasons to like it. With a bad movie? I find more reasons to dislike it. Guess which one Avatar falls in? So on this sunny Memorial Day, I will pour out my thoughts ( Read more... )

Man, I don't understand what this obsession with Moore's Law is with some elements of the sci-fi community (like, most of the breathing ones, it sometimes seems). No, really. It's like every time someone brings up a computational problem someone will inevitably trot out Moore's Law to say that it'll someday go away ( Read more... )

This is the first book I've read by Banks because, frankly, the wrong people liked him. Oh, not you, [insert your name here], but some online people who liked him because he used big words and writes literary fiction. Y'know, who like him because his non-genre novels had conveyed some sort of "legitimacy" on him (as if a medium needs "legitimacy ( Read more... )

I just got done reading Accelerando by Charles Stross and I'm gonna talk about it! Since I actually like the book, I'm not going to give any spoilers. Or I think I won't ( Read more... )