BoingBoing offers Augmented Embroidery – patches you can sew on to whatever. Someone takes a picture of it with their smartphone and the QRcode sends them to your website. Pretty neat, and I find ‘em aesthetically pleasing. From Richard Kadrey’s Twitter, a Salon article on what readers wish writers knew. The Guardian asked writers for their...
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Engadget, via Colleen Kelly’s twitter. I could think of so many geeky uses for this thing it’s not even funny. Colleen wants it paired with a mil-spec head mounted display, which I thoroughly approve of. I’d rather it be joined wirelessly with one of those awesome hologram-tables like they have on Bones. Hey, I doubt...
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On twitter, Dave Brodbeck suggested a few podcasts for my listening pleasure. One of them happened to be the FourCast Podcast, a bit of a roundtable four-person discussion geared toward the immediate, intermediate, and distant future. I’ve listened to five or six episodes so far, and I’m loving it. The two regular hosts of...
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Author William Gibson commenting on his wife: She gets me out of my comfort zone. Essential, really. One of the sweetest things I’ve ever seen anyone say about a loved one. I dunno. Maybe I’m weird.
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One of my favorite authors, Richard Kadrey, put out a few tweets about writing today that’re worth noting: Any beginning writers following me should note that several of my teachers told me to give up writing. Don’t be hurt by teachers, family or friends who don’t like your work. If you’re a writer you write....
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