December 2006
5 posts
Buffy?
I’ve had a variety of friends over the years that have tried to convince me to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer but I just can’t see the appeal. According to my friends, it is the sort of show that I’m supposed to like and it supposedly has some kind of post-hipster-cool po-mo vibe to it, all of which seems less rather than more appealing.
It isn’t that I’m above bad...
Irony
Border Fence Firm Snared for Hiring Illegal Workers: the ultimate irony.
I need to play
Video games fill psychological need, according to the CBC. Interesting analysis of videogames…
cloned meat - Google News
the US government says cloned meat is a-okay for you to eat.
nanotech book
In addition to my current book Making a Killing, I’m also at the proposal stage with another book on the social and environmental impacts that we can expect from the evolving and interdisciplinary field of nanotechnology. Very few people are writing about the potential impacts of these technologies in a critical way, and a colleague and I have proposed to edit a volume on these impacts. The...