I fireballed him as he was seeking out treasure after we wiped out a band of orcs, playing rock-paper-scissors with each orc to determine who would prevail in combat. This is a lot more exciting than it sounds. It's quite civilized, and a little weird. You go running after someone through the woods, catch up with him, bare your teeth, and sit down to play a little roshambo.

Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the nest day - that way, you can write three or five words without being “creative” and before you know it, you're writing.

Like all security, privacy is hard.

... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.

These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.

Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.