TimeSplash 2 is Underway
When I wrote TimeSplash, I never really considered doing a sequel. I put a hook in, just in case, but it definitely was not my plan. But over the past couple of years, so many people have asked when...
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The Future of Car Crime
I just read an article about a research report that says people would like self-driving cars to behave ethically and kill their driver if it was a choice between the driver and, say, a group of...
View ArticleReview: Epitaph Road by David Patneaude
(This review first appeared in the New York Journal of Books on 12th May, 2010) Epitaph Road is the latest in a string of successful young adult novels by David Patneaude. In 2067 a world reeling from...
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Scammers and the Gift of Sociopathy
Wifie has just been scammed by a company she got involved with online. It’s an American company that ran a print ad in an Australian women’s magazine offering a free trial of their product for the...
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There Ought To Be A Law Against It
They should make it illegal to talk crap. I can’t think of any other way to stop the flood of bullshit that threatens to drown out all sensible discourse. It should be a crime to say or write anything...
View ArticleOsama Bin Laden is Dead
So what? Here are a few early thoughts on what it might mean that the “world’s most wanted man” has finally been tracked down and executed. 1. You live by the sword, you die by the sword. Bin Laden...
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Yasmin needs brain surgery but can’t afford it
It is a sad and terrible indictment of the society in which we live that a woman like Yasmin McKillop might die because she can’t afford the surgery that could save her life. Yasmin is a young woman,...
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I Know What is Wrong With The World – and there is no way to fix it
I can sum up everything that is wrong with the world in three words: People Are Stupid. We like to think we are the pinnacle of evolution (in itself a stupid misconception of how evolution works) and...
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Asset-Stripping
What kind of rubbish is this? An online newspaper I read just published an article about an article in a print newspaper called The Australian. Since when was quoting another news outlet’s opinions...
View ArticleToo Big to Know? So What?
The other day someone pointed out an article for me by David Weinberger which appeared in The Atlantic, plugging his new book Too Big to Know. It was a strangely breathless article, but I’m not sure...
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