http://www.allvoices.com/ en-us I first came across the idea in William Gibson's novel Virtual Light, and he plays with the idea some in his new novel, Spook Country. But for my money, the coolest sci-fi interpretation is in Vernor Vinge's award winning novel,... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/693898 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:57:32 -0700 I've been playing Dungeons & Dragons off and on for a really long time. If my math and memory are right, I started iin third grade which makes it somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 years. Oh, man, I hadn't... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/667524 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:59:30 -0700 Media Glutton, June 13, 2008: HULK SMASH! Just got back from seeing the early show of the new Hulk movie. I really do like the AMC $5 morning movie rate on weekends - it makes seeing films so affordable that... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/636906 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:29:45 -0700 The big future issue in the US these days is of course the very, very near future of the presidential elections in November. Now that we've got our candidates, one of who will make a great president and the other... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/623432 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:47:58 -0700 Media Glutton: Reviewing Obedience, Firefly Rain, and others Double dipping of Media Glutton this week - part of the fallout of my massive dose of free bookage this past weekend. Plus I just saw Kung Fu Panda and wanted to... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/603454 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:40:59 -0700 I've just returned from Los Angeles where I was doing a reading at the Write To The City event being held in unofficial conjunction with this year's Book Expo America. The event went amazing - a tone of people showed... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/578996 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:13:33 -0700 I watched the Diane Lane thriller Untraceable over the weekend on DVD. I was wary of the film, as any movie centering around hacking and the internet is bound to get some really basic things wrong that will piss me... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/546086 Thu, 29 May 2008 16:03:33 -0700 Wii Fit! I've seen the future of exercise and it looks a lot like a scale without any numbers on it. OK, "the future of exercise" might be a bit hyperbolic - the Wii Fit is by no means the... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/531405 Tue, 27 May 2008 11:35:48 -0700 Media Glutton May 22nd, 2008 So I decided to wait until today to write up this week's gluttony because I wanted to write about the new Indiana Jones movie. I can say with some assurance that it was not, in... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/507552 Thu, 22 May 2008 13:39:13 -0700 I was having a debate with an old high school friend a couple years ago about the war in Iraq. We hadn't seen each other in quite a while, and he'd grown up more than a little right of center... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/480445 Sat, 17 May 2008 14:56:26 -0700 I want to confess one of my new guilty pleasures. Last summer I started work on a project that will probably never see the light of day, but it involved doing a heck of a lot of research about modern... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/457398 Tue, 13 May 2008 15:51:37 -0700 Cory Doctorow has a new book out this past week, and normally that would be something for my Media Glutton series, but in this case I think it falls squarely under the heading of future compliance. I was lucky enough... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/445852 Sun, 11 May 2008 16:06:59 -0700 Media Glutton, April 29th 2008 OK, let's talk Iron Man. Iron Man freaking rocked. It was, for me, a great, great super hero movie, which is saying something, since there haven't been a lot of those. Moreover, it's a great... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/429174 Thu, 08 May 2008 07:26:56 -0700 Future Compliant May 3 2008 I'm computing in the clouds right now. I've written about this new buzz-word trend before - the idea that all your computing needs will live in the data clouds of the internet, available to you... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/401777 Sat, 03 May 2008 08:24:43 -0700 Grand Theft Auto Glutton I hadn't really planned on playing, much less buying Grand Theft Auto 4. I'd tried the last two games, and while I could see that they were well made games and had a certain appeal, they... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/384331 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:49:25 -0700 Media Glutton April 22nd 2008 by Rick Dakan I really do like PBS. It makes up a surprising amount of my TV watching each week, pretty much entirely for their non-fiction and commentary shows like Charlie Rose, Nova, Bill Moyers,... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/351882 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:39:58 -0700 Media Glutton This past weekend I went up to New York City to do some readings and help promote my Geek Mafia and Geek Mafia: Mile Zero at the NY Anarchist Book Fair. It was a pretty interesting experience all... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/319184 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:15:15 -0700 So this has been an unusual media week for me, a time to try out new things and experience stuff I don't do nearly as often as I should (besides eating enough vegetables). In reverse order then, we'll start with... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/287971 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:03:39 -0700 So I've been reading a lot this past week, mostly for my MFA program and thus nothing you would call new or even terribly recent stuff. Great stuff, but nothing you haven't heard about a bunch of other places before.... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/254506 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:18:42 -0700 Media Glutton, March 26, 2008 by Rick Dakan So I had a rather unusual but quite exciting media overload experience this past weekend - spoke and worked my publisher's table at the San Francisco Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair. It... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/218573 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:40:05 -0700