Several of you have told me I did a crappy job of explaining what’s in Wired‘s November package on manga. Okay. Let me try again. There are five pieces: 1. A story I wrote, based on my stint in Japan, about the dojinshi movement. Sure, these amateur comics creators are trampling all over copyright law. […]
Like many of you, I’m a productivity geek — an devotee of David Allen, a fan of 43 Folders, a lover of Lifehacker. That’s why October 2007 has been so exciting. This month I discovered two of the best new tools — one high-tech, the other decidedly low-tech — that I’ve encountered in a long
Humans aren’t the only ones who use different brain hemispheres for different purposes. Turns out that dogs do the same. Just watch their tails. In an intriguing experiment reported in the SciAm blog, Italian researchers found that a dog typically “wags the tail more to the right while greeting its owner but more to the
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that “the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could total $2.4 trillion through the next decade,” USA Today reports in the newspaper plopped outside my Vegas hotel room. That amounts to roughly $8,000 for every — I love this expression — man, woman, and child in the U.S.
You’ll be hearing a lot about manga in this space over the next six months. Today marks the start of the onslaught, er, conversation. To the right is the cover of the November issue of Wired, which is hitting newsstands and mailboxes as I type. There’s a great 10-page “Manga 101” piece by Jason Thompson.
Here’s a photo from Pearson Airport in Toronto. Add this week’s :10 Minute Manicure to last week’s HairPod, and we’ve got ourselves a trend: interstitial grooming. But before you all ginned up about this, please re-read the Zolli-Brand quote in the entry below. Permalink
“Fast trends get all the attention; slow trends have all the influence.” — Andrew Zolli (channeling Stewart Brand), yesterday, at the amazing Pop!Tech Conference
It sounds like something out of a William Gibson novel. A German designer has produced the VanityRing. It’s like a modern day mood ring. But doesn’t measure how you’re feeling. It measures — get this — how many times your name comes up in a Google search. As the creator explains, “Rings are well known
