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Leaky Graves

I’ve got an essay about Edgar Allan Poe, called Leaky Graves, in the latest issue of Weird Tales:

It’s part of the magazine’s Growing Up Poe feature, in which a bunch of us write about what Poe meant to us when we were kids. Here’s Cherie Priest’s excellent contribution.

The Fallacy of Moral War

I just finished reading Obama’s remarkable Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. There’s some really lovely stuff in there, especially towards the end, where he tackles the gulf between the ideals of the great peacemakers in history — the Martin Luther Kings, the Ghandis — and the ugliness of human nature:

But we do not [...]

Merry Christmas, All

From an “electronic Christmas card”, by Sierra-Online, circa 1986

Prudence vs Paranoia

Just ran across an infuriating column1 from David Pogue, whose stuff I usually love. It’s a review of Dragon Dictation for the iPhone, an amazing app that transcribes speech into text with genuinely impressive fidelity.

Unfortunately, Pogue devotes half of the column to a rant about the “paranoid” people who are complaining about the app’s privacy [...]

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