The freewheeling, mind-opening sixties are disappearing down the throat of a vortex of hardlined isms, and in the land of manmade paradises, unmade paradises, and things you don't talk about, the Ad Man is just doing his thing, man, wow, doing his Ad Thing, mesmerizing you into thinking you belong, or thinking you stand out, whatever it is you're after, man.What's everybody after?There's power, here, if you have what kids are after. There's gold in...

A display screen with proportions set to the golden ratio, emitting blue light, pumping a soft byte cascade into your retinas. A pleasing grid, an intuitive interface, a warm and welcoming portal to everything that is pleasing and good.It is just you and the rectangle. You choose. You tailor. What you fill this rectangle with is your world. This is important. This is you.This is what you chose."Shame On You" is a dark exploration of the consequences of chasing virtu...

What do you do when the apocalypse interrupts your day off? Watch it happen online, what else.Apocalypse is grandiose--sound and thunder and a Bruckheimerian shattering of worlds--but its impact is ultimately measured intimately. Human by human we cope with what befalls our loved ones and enemies and what we know will shortly befall us. Whether we watch the world crumble on 24-hour cable, or from pinned beneath its heel, we react as we do to any tribulation: with the fierce cyclic ...

TICK...TICK...TICK...TICK...Spring, 1968. Memphis is cool but tense. Otis Redding has enough static in his life already: struggling to balance his family life with his career at the top of the pops—and the undercover side job as a superhero isn't helping.TICK...TICK....TICK...Known in his other work clothes as the Mississippi Kite, based in a gadget-filled cave hidden on the banks of Ol' Muddy, Otis serves as a shadow protector of peace in Dixie, along with his colo...

Start playback: 1967, London, the Roundhouse, the Million Volt Light and Sound Rave, Unit Delta Plus, the Lady. Live.Delia Derbyshire is Helen AmeriKKKa, electronic superstar, goddess behind the spacey sound of Doctor Who, accidental mother of a sonic genre, and bookish idol to frenzied teen devotees of the UK and the USR and Nippon and the world.Melissa is sixteen, American, and exploring for an opening. On a winter visit to London, with a studied-Brit cousin as her sherpa...

Phil Dick wishes he'd never started writing. Phil Dick wishes he'd never stopped writing. Phil Dick wishes he could do his work. Phil Dick wishes he didn't have to work. Phil Dick wishes the robot cops' horse was his friend. Phil Dick wishes he didn't have to have any friends.Phil Dick does drugs, but not at work. Except sometimes. Phil Dick hates computer games, but he makes them for a job. Phil Dick hates the Beatles, but got on the backstage lis...