I want to argue that intelligence may be unique among all resources on the planet. It may be the only resource we create that ...

Papertoy Monsters: 50 Cool Papertoys You Can Make Yourself! by Brian Castleforte (author) and Robert James (illustrator) Workman Publishing Company 2010, 124 pages, 8.6 x 11 x 0.9 inches (softcover) ...

Digital Painting Techniques focuses on essential basics like creating custom brushes, speed painting, creating environments, ...

You have a choice of channels. If you still have a CD player, there are plenty of CD audio books around. There are cassette ...

Today, AI tools lower the energetic costs of creating something. They make it easier to start and easier to finish. AIs can ...

Get Born Standing Up. Steve Martin recounts his 18-year journey from an amateur magician to a comedy superstar. It’s filled ...

I wrote this short memo last November, 2024, at the invitation of Wired Mid-East for their year-end issue. I think it still holds up nine months later, and represents where we are on this astounding ...

Good news/bad news on the ETIAS EU visa that you’re not supposed to call a visa. This “permission to visit” with fingerprints and facial recognition has been pushed back to Q3 2026. The bad news is, ...

Ted Kaczynski, the convicted bomber who blew up dozens of technophilic professionals, was right about one thing: technology has its own agenda. The technium is not, as most people think, a series of ...

Out of Control, The Illustrated Edition My first book, Out of Control, still in print from Amazon and available online in full text since 1995, was always imperfect in my eyes. I had wanted to fill it ...

This is an edited, updated version of an essay I wrote in 2008 when this now popular idea was embryonic and ragged. I recently rewrote it to convey the core ideas, minus out-of-date details. This ...

I’ve been seriously traveling for more than 50 years, and I’ve learned a lot. I’ve traveled solo, and I’ve led a tour group of 40 friends. I’ve slept in dormitories and I’ve stayed in presidential ...