I made a new post over at Open Salon about something called the Truman Syndrome. Check it out.
Author Archives: Edmund O'Reilly
Wise Woz
5 October, 2008 – 8:44 pm
Check out this interesting interview with Steve Wozniak. I found it inspiring for some obvious reasons, but not pretentious as might be expected from a computer billionaire. Some highlights that caught my eye were: “Lack of resources forces you to do a lot more original thinking.” “Don’t let people side-track you. If it’s in your [...]
Word Play
14 September, 2008 – 9:03 pm
Check out this interactive site for creating — and appreciating — typography as art. You can manipulate the 21 essential parts of each letterform to create your own and post it to the gallery.
The Next Big Thing: .sex Domains
26 June, 2008 – 8:45 pm
It was inevitable, given the sheer ubiquitousness, that .sex is under consideration for use by ICANN for domains. “You can almost guarantee the most highly sought-after one will, unfortunately, probably be dot-sex,” said Bryan Glick of Computing Magazine. “All the meaningful words and meaningful names in the English language have been bought up already,” Glick [...]
George Carlin
23 June, 2008 – 8:56 pm
Some comedians have made a living with one-liners, some make fun of their lame sex lives and some just milked their one-note routine for a while and went away (see ya, Diceman). The best comedians have always been astute observers of absurdity in an ordinary day; their material was about the stuff we saw all [...]
Listen, Forrest, Listen!
11 May, 2008 – 10:22 am
Having watched Forrest Gump a few times over the years, I’ve started to see beyond the well-made tale of a simple man who seems unaffected by his (fictional) catalytic role in history. He is like the feather that appears at the beginning and end of the film: just going wherever the wind may take him, [...]
Review: Cloverfield
11 May, 2008 – 10:14 am
The best monster movies have always been reflections of the fears of the day. Aliens, giant insects, vampires and indestructible serial killers have been the fare at times when people were uptight about sex, worried about radiation, on Communist witch-hunts or afraid of disease; each fear could be embodied by a Hollywood monster. But the [...]
