Entries tagged with: Self-Congratulations

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(Inter)View

A while back I was asked by Dan Schneider to do an interview for the website COSMOETICA, a somewhat eclectic arts and culture website that's been around since early 2001, apparently without changing the layout of its pages. Schneider has,...

Posted on May 4, 2011 9:35 AM

Diesel Sweetness

I know that I'm a success, now that I've been immortalized as a comic strip character. In the Friday, July 30 edition of r. stevens' Diesel Sweeties, there appeared: ...and that difference? Head over to Diesel Sweeties to find out...

Posted on August 2, 2010 1:41 PM

Hey, Look

I was asked awhile back to put up a list of my favorite pieces; I've finally gotten around to doing so (and, in the course of the clean-up, making some long-planned modifications to the layout of the OtF home page)....

Posted on June 7, 2010 5:23 PM

At LIFT10

Posted on May 5, 2010 7:08 AM

The Old Year

(Updated - I knew that I had forgotten a couple of talks...) I've spent the last week or so just... sleeping. Relaxing. Not thinking. Trying to get myself rested and ready for what looks to be another heavy year....

Posted on January 1, 2010 12:48 PM

Foreign Policy 100 Top Global Thinkers

About two months ago, I was notified by the editors at Foreign Policy magazine that they had selected me as one of their "top global thinkers," to be announced on November 30. I was asked to not say anything...

Posted on November 30, 2009 8:47 AM

Carbon Footprint T-Shirts (& Stuff)

Warren Ellis' new "t-shirt a week" project, using Cafe Press, reminded me that, waaaay back in the early days of Open the Future, I tried out a Cafe Press shop just to get a couple of items of OtF stuff...

Posted on November 1, 2009 3:44 PM

Apparently It's Not (Updated)

Lifting my head up from my short rest & recovery to note that the first episode of "That's Impossible" -- formerly "Science Impossible" -- on the History Channel will be shown on Tuesday night at 10pm (consult your local...

Posted on July 5, 2009 2:13 PM

2008 in Review

(As a blogger, I'm contractually obligated to post one of these, you know.) As 2008 draws to a close, it's time to go through the piles of cognitive detritus left on my desk, and think back on what this year...

Posted on December 22, 2008 1:52 PM

Word Cloud of Me

Bill Thompson inspired me to stick my bio into Wordle to see what I get. Yep, this is a pretty decent representation of who I am... ...

Posted on October 17, 2008 4:44 PM

It's not all about me...

Geeze. I just noticed that all of the front-page posts on OtF right now are in some way self-referential, either linking to interviews or talking about travel (or physical infirmities). I didn't mean for this site to turn into a...

Posted on March 23, 2008 1:54 PM

Six Degrees: A Request

This Sunday night, at 8pm Eastern/9pm Pacific, the National Geographic Channel will show Six Degrees Could Change the World, a documentary based on Mark Lynas' book, depicting what could happen to the planet as global temperatures increase. The NGC team...

Posted on February 8, 2008 11:56 AM

Metaverse in Tech Review (and a small request)

The latest issue of Technology Review contains a lengthy, very well-researched story on the Metaverse, written by Wade Roush. Wade interviewed me for the piece, and I have a couple of reasonably accurate quotes included therein; he also pulls from...

Posted on June 19, 2007 5:38 PM

Cheeseburgers: In Florida; On the BBC

It's tempting to just stick a cheeseburger in the Open the Future logo. The Cheeseburger Steamroller continues its mighty advance, with two significant media hits this week: in the Florida Times-Union, out of Jacksonville; and on the BBC radio program,...

Posted on April 26, 2007 9:37 AM

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