Category: Blog

  • ORIGAMY: Synthetic Biology Fiction

    So I’m a bunch of the way through Rachel Armstrong’s ORIGAMY now, and here’s the thing: There’s a field of rogue mutant hair transplants, and the hair field is grazed upon by a trip of transgenic goats, and there’s like five pages on the digestive processes of these goats, including shoals of microsquid that live…

  • Reblog, Or: Little Radio Stations In The Night

    On my newsletter last weekend, I wrote this: Sometimes I wonder what it’d be like to go full-bore blog again, like in the old days. Twitter’s only real use is as a notification system, after all, so you’d just pump out post links to it from your blog.  You know, the way people used to,…