Elaborating on a story idea
I don't love Walter Jon Williams's novella "The Green Leopard Plague" (Asimov's, Oct/Nov 2003 double issue; excerpt available on Asimov's...
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Internet Review of Science Fiction
The Internet Review of Science Fiction launched on Wednesday. Interesting stuff. They're doing a subscription model: content is visible only...
Unaccountably mopey
Dunno why, just kind of in a blah mood all day today. On the plus side, resolved a potentially bad...
Video
Wait, two more quick items: Video (requires Windows Media Viewer) from French TV of a man playing classical music and...
Recently
Some good things recently: On the way home from work the other day, I listened to a couple of laugh-out-loud...
TV
Kam and I recently watched the new Battlestar Galactica miniseries (thanks to David H). I was pretty dubious about it...
Future of the past, future of the present
In an entry from 2002, I commented: I wish I knew who it was who said that up until cyberpunk,...
Aerogel
I saw the photos of aerogel in the first news stories about the mission to comet Wild 2, but I...
Rocketeer
It turns out my local video store didn't actually have the movie; they used to, but it's now marked as...
Evil skin
Since outward appearance is supposed to reflect the worth of the soul, American movies (drawing, of course, on a long...
Service demon returns
About a year ago, I noticed that my customer service demon seemed to have gone on vacation. It hasn't been...
Hunters
Brief things first: you can obtain a couple of replica Buffy daggers at Battle Orders Ltd, should you be so...