I always called it “the News” — I thought “the Rocky” was a stupid nickname for a newspaper. But that nickname was an example of marketing that worked. When I first came to Colorado two and a half decades ago, I remember there were either TV or radio ads with a jingle that went: The […]

Lately the Boulder Futurists have been debating the future of persuasion, with considerable emphasis on what topics the news media chooses to cover, how this relates to the interests of advertisers, etc. Here’s an interesting related piece, a Pew Research poll that shows how people’s interest in various new topics has changed over the years. […]

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For my first post that asserted that amped up bad news actually creates a better world over time, I decided to err on this side of brevity and omitted the inclusion of examples. To repair that omission, I herewith present some illustrative thoughts. First, the Violence Shaving phenomenon exhibits itself over time scales on the […]

In the immortal words of Rodney Dangerfield: Hey, folks, it’s on me! Shakespeare for everyone, OK?

With that movie coming out this weekend, it only seems appropriate that we should catch up on our reading on rogue waves, or as they are more dramatically described in some circles, freak waves: Freak waves, also known as rogue waves or monster waves, are relatively large and spontaneous ocean surface waves which can sink […]

…when doing fastForward radio: The threat of violence means the show’s in-game production staff usually has to lay down cover fire for Burke during interviews. But tonight we’re offline, in the Xbox version of a closed set. Burke has pacified the area so his guest, art and fashion impresario Malcolm McLaren, can hold forth uninterrupted […]

…when doing fastForward radio: The threat of violence means the show’s in-game production staff usually has to lay down cover fire for Burke during interviews. But tonight we’re offline, in the Xbox version of a closed set. Burke has pacified the area so his guest, art and fashion impresario Malcolm McLaren, can hold forth uninterrupted […]

Okay, granted, nobody watches the Late Late Show ever since Craig Kilborn left and the thing has been “guest-hosted” by an incredible string of has-beens, wannabes, and trained chimps. But tonight, actor Ben Browder will be appearing, no doubt talking about FarScape: The Peacekeeper Wars which debuts on Sci-Fi this coming Sunday. So if you’re […]