Now everyone could be on TV, every second of every day, whether or not anyone was watching.
My bullet bill this month was going to be huge.
Listen, I said. It really was luck. I’ve got a knack for classic arcade games. That’s my specialty. I shrugged. Stop hitting yourself like Rain Man, OK? She
Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton
Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton (again).
It’s fucking lame, is what it is! The swords look like they were made out of tinfoil. And that soundtrack is epically lame. Full of synthesizers and shit. By the motherfucking Alan Parsons Project! La...
In those days, if you wanted to escape to another world, you had to create it yourself, using your brain, some paper, pencils, dice, and a few rule books.
If there was a bright center to the universe, I was on the planet it was farthest from.
IOI (pronounced eye-oh-eye)
I watched every episode of The Greatest American Hero, Airwolf, The A-Team, Knight Rider, Misfits of Science, and The Muppet Show.
I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing ’80s cover tunes on ukuleles.
I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton (again). There were no term limits, and those two geezers had been doing a kick-ass job of protecting user rights for over a decade.
I took control of a Happy Helpdesk avatar, a cookie-cutter Ken doll that I used to take tech-support calls. This avatar appeared inside a huge virtual call center, inside a virtual cubicle, sitting at...
I stepped inside, closed the door, and locked it behind me. Then I made a silent vow not to go outside again until I had completed my quest. I would abandon the real world altogether until I found the...
I blinked and looked again—but it was still out there, a shiny chrome disc zigzagging around in the sky. My eyes struggled to track the object through a series of increasingly fast, impossibly sharp t...
Gokouun o inorimasu,
During our World History lesson that morning, Mr. Avenovich loaded up a stand-alone simulation so that our class could witness the discovery of King Tut’s tomb by archaeologists in Egypt in AD 1922. (...
Careful analysis of this scene reveals that all of the teenagers behind Halliday are actually extras from various John Hughes teen films who have been digitally cut-and-pasted into the video. † His su...
Begin morning run, I said to Max. Bifrost track. The virtual gym vanished. Now I was standing on a semitransparent running track, a curved looping ribbon suspended in a starry nebula. Giant ringed pla...
Played it over and over, each time mouthing the words to the single lyric spoken in the middle of the song: One of these days I’m going to cut you into little pieces.