Posted on December 18, 2008 by Mark Baard
These furry, quivering, cooing, critters are a “must bring” for the opening of the new Trek movie in May.
Here’s a bit I wrote for the Boston Globe this week:
I’ve seen the trailer for J.J. Abrams’s upcoming “Star Trek” prequel about 30 times. I’ve picked through the high-definition video, checking the battle scenes against the starship-size [...]
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Posted on December 15, 2008 by Mark Baard
What does a geek goddess look like?
A new book promises to help women do their own IT thang:
When it comes to technology (or anything, really), men and women rarely think alike. Men are obsessed with acronyms and the size of their hard drives. Women just want to get things done. And if they can get [...]
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Posted on December 4, 2008 by Mark Baard
I’ve been out of the Second Life loop lately, save for this piece, which I wrote for the Boston Globe: Virtual business, for real?
But here’s an interesting development I missed this fall, in the extropian/transhuman community in Second Life: a call for the first-ever “Gender Freedom Day in Virtual Worlds,” with the admirable goal [...]
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