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It's been a busy week. Last weekend (in which category I include Friday, for convenience), there was lunch and Return...
Author Archive
Penrose
A few years back, I picked up a cool set of magnetic shapes. They were rhombuses, each about an inch...
Expanding empire
I've neglected to mention a couple new additions to the ever-expanding set of people and sites I host here at...
National Library of Poetry
Hee hee—poet Mike Allen submitted a "poem" titled "The Big Scam" to the National Library of Poetry. The NLP, of...
Help usability
A cute Ok/Cancel strip about Help-system usability testing....
Another upcoming sf movie
Sorry for so many entries in rapid succession. One last thing for tonight: Another of the previews I saw before...
Three laws for the robot-kings
Someone recently wrote to Mike Resnick (and Resnick quoted in his “Ask Bwana” column in Speculations) about Asimov's robot stories....
Short sf
It felt for a few days there like everywhere I turned I was running into some new item relating to...
Top ten short story authors (2001)
I recently happened across Nick Gevers's top ten sf short story authors list (from 2001). And Paul Di Filippo's parodies...
Shortest day, longest night
I have a vague notion that there's a really nice Winter Solstice poem somewhere in the back of my head,...
Tidbits
Items proliferate faster than I can post 'em. There's an online (free) nation simulator game called Jennifer Government: NationStates. I've...
New mini Wallace and Gromit short
Soccamatic is the latest very short (2 min.) Wallace & Gromit movie from Nick Park. Not brilliant, but fun, and...