Obvious stated; film at 11
Doesn't this look like an Onion headline? "Most People Kiss the Right Way, Study Finds." But in actuality it's a...
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Hierarchicko uindicabant
A couple of odd things about spam lately: First, I've been getting a lot of spam containing cryptic words or...
Holly
All through this latest Christmas season, this kept running through my head at odd moments: The holly bears a blossom...
Robots and heroes
Asimov's First Law of Robotics states: A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human...
High-energy day online
So first came the news that the Nebula Awards final ballot had been released, and that Tim Pratt's story "Little...
Ode to Lutefisk
Back in 1994, Clay Shirky wrote a wonderful piece called "Ode to Lutefisk," describing his first encounter with lutefisk on...
Words easily confused #5
Another entry in an irregular series. past and passed. In the context in which they're often confused, past means "beyond"...
Related/unrelated
One last thing and then I really will go to bed: someone just pointed me to the TouchGraph GoogleBrowser, which...
Genderless future?
I'm reading Iain M. Banks again. I'll probably have some comments about the book in general at some point (but...
Miss Selene
(Title pun stolen from Finder.) Exhausted. Reading subs; down to only 14 to go from the week I'm currently reading,...
Next Wave!
Seems like everyone's getting in on the group-describing action. We SH fiction editors have been saying for a while that...
Submission volume status
In 2002, we averaged about 200 submissions a month; for June to November, it was more like 210 a month....