Joe D

Commented on Summer webcomics
Buttersafe - https://www.buttersafe.com/ If you like SMBC, you will like Buttersafe. Everblue - https://www.everblue-comic.com/ From the About page: "In a world of endless ocean, a young shipwright named Luna meets an odd and cheerful drifter when he crashes his flying...
Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
I immediately went to "what happens when they make logic errors?" A runaway infinite loop that drains all heat from the surrounding area. A forkbomb equivalent could be weaponized. Freeze your enemy's lair/castle/domain into a solid lump, which never stops...
Commented on A small research question
Microchimerism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchimerism#Human Cells can pass in both directions across the placenta, from child to mother, and mother to child, and then persist for decades. When your mother says "I will always be with you" it's literally true - you probably...

Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)