Josh’s Blog

Recently I’ve been working through Cory Doctorow’s writings. For those of you who haven’t heard of him before, he’s a science-fiction writer who, among other things, writes regularly for Boing Boing. He has a lot of really interesting ideas, and I generally agree with his stances on society and technology. If you have 5 minutes handy, go read Printcrime. It’s from his recently published collection of short stories, Overclocked.

I read through Overclocked in eBook form on my Smartphone. Reading it in that format was a m interesting double-dose of the future. I used the Mobipocket Reader, which presented the book well on the high resolution screen that my Treo 680 has.

Overclocked was an incredible collection. It covered a wide range of potential future scenarios. Anyone who’s interested in science-fiction or even just the future in general should read it. I’ve also read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, which was excellent, and I’m now reading Eastern Standard Tribe. After the first few chapters it’s turning out very well, too.

Finally, if you’re not a paper junkie, I can’t stress how great Boing Boing is. It’s a blog that links to all sorts of eclectic things, but its post-to-interesting ratio is at probably 80% for me. That’s way above any other site out there. Go check it out and learn about such things as knitting Space Invaders socks, free speech issues, international socio-political flame-wars, and way more.