Assorted links
Just a collection of miscellaneous items:
- Cute parody of ad for new Power Mac G5. (Large image.)
- Article about the growing influence of fan sites on moviemakers.
- Wearable video camera (cute li'l thing that clips onto your glasses) that keeps track of the last 30 seconds of stuff you've seen; when you press the Record button, it saves the current 30 seconds of video to a compact flash card. In case that wasn't clear, let me repeat it: when you press the button, the most recent 30 seconds of what you've been looking at (before you pressed the button) gets saved. I don't know that I would ever use it, but I find the concept astonishingly cool.
- Mark Glaser's guide to the blogosphere provides a cute chart of influential blogs, organized on two axes: liberal vs. conservative (he acknowledges indirectly that this ignores libertarianism, which is a big part of the blogosphere, but anyway) on one axis, journalism-like vs blog-like on the other.
- Wacky complaint that JJA and GVG at F&SF reject stories too quickly; they couldn't possibly be reading the whole story, says "Nameless Author." Discussion ensues, including postings from JJA, GVG, and Ellen Datlow.
- I got that last item from Scott Reilly's new speculative-fiction newslog Write Hemisphere, which I like quite a bit (nice work, Scott!)—clean design, interesting and timely news, and
quotes from ME ME ME!market information.
Okay, that's about enough of that, I think. Sorry, but I've lost track of my sources on most of those.
