Greetings from an ethnic librarian working in the games industry! I’m posting this review of my experience last year at GDC (the Game Developers Conference) held every year here in San Francisco. It was originally part of a letter to my team here at Linden Lab, but I thought you…

With the recent news of Yahoo’s potential acquisition by vile Microsoft and its prior layoff of 1000 hardworking geeks, there was a bit of an air of piracy in the office last week. Linden Lab is going into another round of recruitment, focusing on web developers, QA folk, and other…

Queen Bees are expensive It’s damned difficult to find a cat-sitter in Ithaca Johnathan Lethem’s You Don’t Love me Yet is, so far, an absolutely perfect book Tom Phillips is an artist who did a really great book painting featuring fictional books with titles stolen from Shakespeare Roccapulco is a…