Articles

More writing from me from around the web…

Dead Sites: 15 Web Sites That Were Before Their Time

Amazon.com’s first sale was fifteen years ago, and while the pioneering online retailer eventually found success, many of its peers weren’t so lucky. Here, we salute great sites of the Web 1.0 era that never made it… (Esquire, July 2010)

(This article, written for Esquire.com, did close to 200,000 hits and gained major traction on Gizmodo.)

Extraterrestrial Intelligence: NASA JPL’s AEGIS Project Brings AI to Mars

Though we may not have found intelligent life on Mars, NASA has just beamed up its own… (h+ Magazine, April 2010)

Lady Gaga and the Dead-Planet Grotesque

Over the last year Lady Gaga has come to embody—for me and, I imagine, for her fans—a kind of posthuman life strategy… (h+ Magazine, March 2010)

Get Up Make Love: 21st Sentury Space Sexploration

I can’t say that I’m particularly surprised by Obama’s new plan to scarper plans of government-funded human space exploration… (h+ Magazine, February 2010)

Lost in the Filth Simulacrum

They say the children are our future. But if 4chan is any indication of what they have in store for us, we are in for a very rough time indeed… (h+ Magazine, December 2009)

What We Can Learn From Iceland

I landed in Reykjavik on a cheap flight shortly after the fall of Iceland. It looked normal, but then, prices were equal to the dollar instead of nine times it. What was once Europe’s most expensive city was now looking positively affordable… (g-Think, March 2009)