News tagged with 'dakan'. Found 10 tagged news.
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Future Compliant, June 22: Enki, Androids, and Enhanced Reality
Sarasota :: FL :: USA | 5 months ago
Posted by
Ricko 
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, Rainbows End, which I...
Tags: Future Compliant, Dakan, Android, Enki, mobile phones
Media Glutton: Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition
Sarasota :: FL :: USA | 5 months ago
Posted by
Ricko
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 done that math before. That's a really long...
Tags: Dakan, Dungeons & Dragons, D&D, Media Glutton
Media Glutton June 4, 2008: Book Expo America
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 5 months ago
Posted by
Ricko
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 up and the venue was packed for all...
Tags: Dakan, Media Glutton, Book Expo America
Media Glutton - Untraceable, Consider Phlebas, The World Ends With You
Sarasota :: FL :: USA | 5 months ago
Posted by
Ricko
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 off. But I was desperate for something...
Tags: Dakan, Media Glutton, Untraceable, The World Ends With You, Cosider Phlebas, Creative Screenwriting podcasts
Future Compliant - Wii Fit
Sarasota :: FL :: USA | 5 months ago
Posted by
Ricko
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 most perfect exercise aid ever invented, and there is plenty...
Tags: Dakan, Future Compliant, Wii Fit
Media Glutton, May 13, 2008
Sarasota :: FL :: USA | 6 months ago
Posted by
Ricko
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 and classic stage magic, including interviewing magicians...
Tags: Dakan, Media Glutton, Matt Taibbi, The Great Derangement, Celebracadabra, magic
Media Glutton, May 8, 2008
Sarasota :: FL :: USA | 6 months ago
Posted by
Ricko
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 super hero movie about a character...
Tags: re Dead, Charlie Wilson, Dakan, Iron Man, Speed Racer, Player of Games, Hoffman, Before The Devil Knows Yous War
Future Compliant, May 3, 2008
Sarasota :: FL :: USA | 6 months ago
Posted by
Ricko
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 anywhere where you have some...
Tags: Dakan, Future Compliant, Cloud Computing, Chaos Computer Club, anonbox, Google Docs
Media Glutton, April 30, 2008
Sarasota :: FL :: USA | 6 months ago
Posted by
Ricko
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 just didn't do anything for me. It wasn't...
Tags: Dakan, Media Glutton, Grand Theft Auto, GTA
Media Glutton April 16, 2008
Sarasota :: FL :: USA | 7 months ago
Posted by
Ricko
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 things considered. I did two events at the...
Tags: Dakan, Geek Mafia, Geek Mafia: Mile Zero, Josh MacPhee, Reproduce & Revolt, Battlestar Galactica
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