And speaking of WorldCon 2003
The membership rates for TorCon go up by $25 Canadian (about $15 US) as of January 1. If you're sure...
Author Archive
2003 Hugo recommendations
As the year draws to a close, and we think fondly back over 2002, we might consider pausing to think...
Anecdotal
I've now seen this quote twice in the past week. I like it a lot: The plural of anecdote is...
Rainbows
One nice thing about all the rain the Bay Area's been getting lately is that I hear the whole area,...
INS, ACLU
Most of you probably know by now that the INS recently detained a large number of people who showed up...
Lott and editing
Trent Lott has stepped down as Senate Republican leader, but is staying in the Senate. Seems like a reasonable outcome...
Cycles mod boundaries!
A long story derived from going through old papers last weekend: I was never cut out to be a math...
Endangered giant sea sparrows
Hee hee—Will points to a great correction/retraction from the New York Times: An article on Nov. 10 about animal rights...
Review: The Sum of All Fears
Watched The Sum of All Fears tonight. A surprisingly good movie, at least if you don't care about being true...
Civil rights
Nice Charles Krauthammer column in the Washington Post the other day. It calls for Trent Lott to step down, but...
Creative Commons
I've done more thinking about intellectual property this past week than for the previous few months, for a variety of...
Review: Gosford Park
Just saw Gosford Park. Good movie, but it had what seemed to me to be one big flaw, until I...