Daily Archives: April 24, 2013
Rainbow, 4/24/13
Posted on April 24, 2013 21 Comments
I see some cool stuff from my front yard sometimes. Larger versions are here. Feel free to use ’em for computer wallpapers if you like.
My Weekend Schedule at C2E2 and University of Chicago
Posted on April 24, 2013 7 Comments
Hey, if you’re in the Chicagoland area this weekend, you’ll have a chance to see me at C2E2, where I will be signing and doing a panel, and, if you are a University of Chicago student, at the UofC, where I will be doing a chat. Here is my official schedule. Friday at University of […]
The Lowest Difficulty Setting as Teaching Tool
Posted on April 24, 2013 156 Comments
This is interesting: Writer and teacher Samantha Allen assigns my “Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is” piece in her Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 100 class (along with her own, similar article) and then as a teaching exercise runs her students through Halo, with the game set at varying difficulties, to see if a video […]
Me at the Guardian and LA Times
Posted on April 24, 2013 17 Comments
I’m showing up at a couple of news outlets today, so let me share those with you. One, here’s a video interview I did with Carolyn Kellogg of The Los Angeles Times, mostly talking about The Human Division. Please to admire my fine apparel. Two, The Guardian has a piece on the changing world of […]
The Big Idea: Josin McQuein
Posted on April 24, 2013 14 Comments
Today’s metaphor for ideas comes to you from Josin L. McQuein, author of the new YA science fiction book Arclight. And what is that metaphor? Hint: They are small, they are many, and if you are not careful, they are coming for you — or at least at you, in their multitudes. Prepare yourself. JOSIN […]
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