Failing again. Failing better.
I am a huge fan of the Muppets, having been raised on a very steady diet of them ever since I was very young. After many spoofs and hints and clips, another trailer is here. Check it out. Let’s count the celebrity cameos, ha ha ha. It looks like Jason Segel has taken many of…
Pardon the delay, although E.D. Kain’s article is a few months old, I only just came across it, via Andrew Sullivan’s blog. Kain, from what I can put together, is a fan of the fantasy genre. But he thinks that while fantasy is very popular now (as gauged by TV ratings and box office returns),…
Earlier this month, Wired’s Danger Room blog covered the computer virus infecting the U.S. drone program (my commentary is here and here). Danger Room continues to cover what, to me, is increasingly looking like a cover up of sloppy cyber security and its consequences. Danger Room reported here that officials at Creech Air Force Base…
Wired’s Danger Room blog recently posted a story about the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B “Space Plane,” claiming it Boeing might soon scale it up to accommodate up to six astronauts. Danger Room questions this outcome, as do I. So I must ask, if not to carry humans, what will the ship be used for?. The…
I love reading folklore and mythology. I can remember reading D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths, with it’s cartoony illustrations, as a child. I’ve bought several collections of fairy tales and myths over the years (I even have Taschen’s Grimm Collection on my wishlist). I love reading different versions of the same tale. Sometimes they live…