Photoshop firmly embedded in propaganda toolkit
A fairly major plot-point in my first novel involves the widespread use of digitally-altered “news,” and it’s easy to forget …
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U.S Spy Bill Creates the ‘Infrastructure for a Police State’
The whistleblower at the heart of a lawsuit against AT&T for illegal eavesdropping says Congress is set to stage a …
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George Carlin dies at 71
The first headline that caught my eye this morning was George Carlin, 71, Irreverent Standup Comedian at the New York …
Booklist names CoD in top 6 crime debut novels of ’07
So yeah, I’m kind of a big deal. ;^) Seriously, though, this feels pretty darn good. The Crime category covers …
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Maximum Impact now available in paperback! (U.K.)
The paperback release of Maximum Impact is now out on the shelves throughout the United Kingdom! My friends and colleagues …
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Pushing the limits of human ingenuity
If we can do this, it seems, we can do just about anything. People like to debate the value of …
What I’ve Been Up To
It’s been a while since the last post. The fact is I’ve been writing a lot more than I’ve been …
The eye-Phone: Reality is (almost) cooler than fiction
I’ll get to the eye-Phone in just a minute, after a bit of context. The series of books that I’m …
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The fastest processor on Earth: 1871 vs. 2008
A few minutes after I’d read the announcement that IBM is now shipping a five-billion-instructions-per-second processor, I noticed another story …
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DARPA: 50 years of radical innovation
from Stephen Barr, for The Washington Post Small and secretive, DARPA has compiled a number of impressive achievements in the …
Ninety orbits, and now on to the next world
Sir Arthur C. Clarke died the other day at 90. There are some great obits out there, and if you’re …
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Now *this* is a robot
Boston Dynamics is one of those stunning pockets of genius that reminds me that the spirit of invention is alive …
