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It Feels Good to Be Yourself: a sweet, simple picture book about gender identity
Theresa Thorn (co-host of the excellent parenting podcast One Bad Mother and Jesse Thorn (proprietor of the excellent Maximum Fun podcasting network) have a transgender daughter; Theresa has written a...
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Karl Schroeder's "Stealing Worlds": visionary science fiction of a way...
Karl Schroeder (previously) is literally the most visionary person I know (and I've known him since 1986!): he was the first person to every mention "fractals" to me, then "the internet" and then "the...
View ArticleGood Omens is amazing
I was already a Terry Pratchett fan and a Neil Gaiman fan in 1990, when their comedic novel Good Omens showed up in the bookstore I worked at, and I dibsed it, took it home over the weekend, read it...
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Man-Eaters Volume Two: Fleshing out the world where girls turn into lethal...
Volume One of Man-Eaters, Chelsea Cain and Kate Niemczyk's scathing, hilarious, brilliant comic about girls who turn into man-eating werepanthers when they get their periods, is the best comic I read...
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Cult of the Dead Cow: the untold story of the hacktivist group that presaged...
Back in 1984, a lonely, weird kid calling himself Grandmaster Ratte' formed a hacker group in Lubbock, Texas. called the Cult of the Dead Cow, a name inspired by a nearby slaughterhouse. In the...
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Rage Inside the Machine: an insightful, brilliant critique of AI's computer...
Rob Smith is an eminent computer scientist and machine learning pioneer whose work on genetic algorithms has been influential in both industry and the academy; now, in his first book for a general...
View ArticleI finally found an anti-fog product for my swim goggles that actually works
Update: The manufacturer writes, "Sea Gold is NOT for use with swimming goggles. It can irritate the eyes and we would appreciate it if you update it with our Anti-Fog Spray. For the record, I haven't...
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J Michael Straczynski's "Becoming Superman": a memoir of horrific abuse, war...
J Michael Straczynski (previously) is known for many things: creating Babylon 5, spectacular runs on flagship comics from Spiderman to Superman, incredibly innovative and weird kids' TV shows like The...
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Because Internet: the new linguistics of informal English
Conversational language is not the same as formal language: chatter over the dinner table does not follow the same rules as a speech from a podium. Informal language follows its own fluid, fast-moving...
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Zero Sum Game: action-packed sf thriller about a ninja hero whose superpower...
SL Huang got a degree in math from MIT, then became a martial artist, stuntwoman and weapons expert; her debut novel, Zero Sum Game, features an ass-kicking action hero called Cas Russell, who...
View ArticleHow long will it take my baby son to review The Velvet Underground & Nico...
Have a nice weekend, y'all. Previously: How long will it take my baby son to defeat the Strong Suction Silicone Plate?
View ArticlePaul Di Filippo on Radicalized: "Upton-Sinclairish muckraking, and...
I was incredibly gratified and excited to read Paul Di Filippo's Locus review of my latest book, Radicalized; Di Filippo is a superb writer, one of the original, Mirrorshades cyberpunks, and he is a...
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Rule of Capture: Inside the martial law tribunals that will come when climate...
In 2017, science fiction author Christopher Brown burst on the scene with Tropic of Kansas, an apocalyptic pageturner about martial law in climate-wracked America; now, with his second novel, Rule of...
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Review: Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: the Black Order is a fun, glitchy, gaming...
Sometimes, I play video games to get out of my head for an hour or two. A bit of gaming allows me to numb myself after a stressful day at work or to relax through a bout of insomnia once I become too...
View ArticleYup. Obenauf's Heavy Duty leather preservative is the way for me
A little over a year ago I reviewed Obenauf's. I just ordered another jar. Baking in leather as the sun pounds down on you is kinda the motorcyclist thing. My jacket is a treasured article of clothing...
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Rage Inside the Machine: an insightful, brilliant critique of AI's computer...
[I ran a review of this in June when the UK edition came out -- this review coincides with the US edition's publication] Rob Smith is an eminent computer scientist and machine learning pioneer whose...
View ArticleThe GENIAC, a narrative interactive game from 1955
Hackaday has a great post about a recreation of the GENIAC, an electric toy from 1955 that used simple switches to creative a turn-based interactive game narrative. The GENIAC, short for "GENIus...
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Amazon reviewers note: "This is a lot of cheese."
This short set of Amazon reviews had me laughing out loud! Check out Amazon's bulk Cheez Whiz offer. After the top rated review, the remarks purchasers make about their 39 POUNDS of Cheez Whiz are...
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The Babysitter's Coven
Esme Pearl has a shitty life: she's seventeen, has only one real friend in the world, lives in a small Kansas town (and hates it), goes to high school, and is being raised by her traumatized father...
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Republic of Lies: the rise of conspiratorial thinking and the actual...
Anna Merlan has made a distinguished journalistic career out of covering conspiracy theories, particularly far-right ones, for Gizmodo Media; her book-length account of conspiratorial thinking,...
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