So, if stats are to be believed, I have some new readers. Welcome!I’d like to direct you to the following:Overview — newly updated, this page includes an introduction and links to all the posts in my major series (I may go back and create series tags...
I’m currently in the middle of enjoying a week-long vacation in a rented beach house on the Oregon coast. I’m sitting at the dining room table, looking out the giant picture windows and sliding door, and there’s nothing between the house and the...
Part One — Mind VirusIn part one I talked about memetics and the war for our thoughts that’s currently raging throughout the Western world. Memetics are hip, indeed memetics is a meme at this point — how meta! — and so talking about fighting...
Clearly, I’m anti-social.I don’t have a Facebook account.I did have one, though I rarely used it and only had a few friends. But I dropped it permanently after the emotional manipulation experiment came to light. I was disappointed, but not surprised, that...
The national media has been a-buzz with the news of a young college student creating a gun-shooting drone. The device doesn’t seem to break any laws, at least not in Connecticut, but it is mighty creepy and unsettling to local and national law enforcement. Of...
