Crossroads 
The Price of Everything: Book Trailer Storytelling Evolved
One of the best book trailers I’ve ever seen.
Sam Harris in Berkeley: Can Science Determine Human Values?
Sam Harris’s terrific presentation in Berkeley about how science is the best tool we have at our disposal to alleviate human suffering and advance well-being.
How “Hubris Kills” and “The Speed-Up Speeds Up”: Syd Mead on Blade Runner, Transportation, and Biotechnology
Visual futurist Syd Mead reflecting upon the nature of creativity and how it drives the future.
It Was a Bright Cold Day in December, and the Clocks Were Striking Thirteen. #JMStV
Germany, are you fucking kidding me?
Idoru, More Alive Than Ever
About Cyberpunk avatars, William Gibson, & Japanese Idoru who are more alive than ever.
Book-Cut Storytelling: Three Stills and a Lemon
Three well executed book-cuts from the Czech Republic plus a German letter-cut with a pedestrian copy like you wouldn’t believe.
On Gay Marriage: Maggie Gallagher Meets St. Peter
And people always ask me why I’m pro-Second Amendment.
George Carlin on Customs
“Just when these American citizens needed their rights the most, their government sucked ’em away. And rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges, that’s all we’ve ever had in this country, is a bill of temporary privileges.”
Blazing Away: Mr. Potato Head Evolved!
What if Mr. Potato Head lived in alternative universes? See Steampunk Mr. Potato Head and Warhammer 40K Mr. Potato Head blaze away!
Homeopathy and the Central Powers of Quack
For many people, it’s not that they don’t know what homeopathy really is. Rather, they don’t want to know—without being fully aware of it—for powerful reasons.
Büttenbyte des Monats: VDZ/BDZV Eckpunktepapier zum Reichsleistungsschutzgesetz
VDZ/BDVZ Leistungsschutzrecht-Papier: Der Krieg gegen Journalistinnen und Journalisten, Informationsgesellschaft und Zitat- und Redefreiheit ist eröffnet.
George Carlin on Religion
“I say ‘this guy,’ because I firmly believe, looking at these results, that if there is a God, it has to be a man. No woman could ever fuck things up like this.”
Stephen Fry at the Intelligence Squared Debate
“The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. And that, in erotic terms, is the Catholic church in a nutshell.”
Book-Cut Storytelling: Environment
This EWS/WWF commercial for the UAE is nicely done, but it lacks storytelling. Usually, it’s not the advice that sticks, it’s the story that goes with it.
Yes, Virginia, Religion Is Child Abuse
Indeed there is a hell, and children’s minds are where they built it. A recent video clip from Thunderf00t and a lengthy excerpt from James Joyce.
Der Schwarm von Frank Schätzing
Ein Lektorat findet nicht statt: Frank Schätzings Der Schwarm als die Bild-Zeitung des deutschen Genre-Romans.
Lewis Black on Creationism: The Devil’s Handiwork
“There are people who believe that dinosaurs and men lived together. There are museums that children go to, in which they built dioramas to show them this.”
Logophobia
Logorama, Bibendum, William Gibson: a quotation from my doctoral thesis on iconic brands, politics, and the common roots of democracy and modes of production.