Colonizing SFWA
The latest issue of the SFWA Bulletin just arrived; it has a new feature, a page titled "New SFWA Members...
Author Archive
Real Life: The Game
Cute GameSpot article reviewing the massively multiplayer roleplaying game real life. Some excerpts: Starting out in real life can admittedly...
Paneling
It's only recently that I've learned you can get onto panels at sf cons by checking the little box in...
Updates
Was good to see Mary Anne this past week. A week's too short, but it's better than a weekend. Have...
Editing openings
I've noticed on many occasions that my edits-per-paragraph are generally much higher in the opening two or three paragraphs of...
Apotemnophilia
Interesting article at Slate about people who want to have amputations, some of whom are turned on by amputees. I...
Submission trends
A couple weeks ago, we had a surprisingly long run of almost entirely stories by authors who hadn't sent us...
MYOM
At Chucklehound Entertainment, you can make your own movie using the Box Office Oracle. Pick some genres, some actors and...
Overheard in the grocery store
Two women in their 60s or so, talking in the frozen foods section of the grocery store here in California:...
Google and weapons of mass destruction
There's an email going around that says that if you go to Google and type in "weapons of mass destruction"...
“The Right Number”
Scott McCloud is doing a micropayment experiment: a Flash-based web comic called "The Right Number," which you can read the...
Facial reconstruction
Popular Mechanics ran an article six months ago about the attempts of some forensic anthropologists to reconstruct the face of...