Lancer Kind, Science Fiction author

The advent of the Internet has increased the rate of information flow. We used to wait a month for a new magazine issue or a week for a favorite TV episode. Today, life progresses at Internet time. Online magazines report not only daily but when the story breaks. You can watch movies ‘on demand’ rather [...]

I’ve always said that if you can’t be in high places, it’s good to have friends there who can tell you about the view. Dear reader, unlike my usual ‘speculative posts,’ Will really is my pal, and he really did get nominated for these very cool awards.  Yes! Really!  I’ve got pictures!  William McIntosh and [...]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is looking for public feedback as part of the Open Gov Initiative. Vote up my suggestion to make Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother required reading to DHS employees. You can read my review from a previous post. http://openhomelandsecurity.ideascale.com/a/dtd/31748-7043 My dad is a newly retired member of DHS.  Dad, I’ll work [...]

Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother is a call to those that are keeping quiet and just waiting for things to blow over.  It’s a clarion to those waiting for our freedoms to come back.  And it’s an instruction book  for how to fight back rather than sit at home and complain about warrantless wiretapping. Little Brother [...]

Until today, I never really understood products that were “New AND Improved.”  I mean, doesn’t it have to be one or the other: New something-something, or Improved something something? But now I understand: spinning any improvement as “new” (like a new feature), or anything that is New has to be an Improvement (like Vista over [...]