Person of Interest and the total surveillance society
Yesterday, I watched the pilot of the new CBS show Person of Interest. It's pretty good in a variety of...
Author Archive
How you can help fund Mary Anne’s SF erotica book
Mary Anne has launched a Kickstarter project for a new book she's writing. It's called Demimonde. It's going to be...
When backups go bad
Apple's Time Machine backup system has been working mostly flawlessly for me for the past couple of years. But two...
Assorted updates
Been over a week since I posted anything here, and quite a while before that since I posted a life...
Syncing notes from iPhone to Mac
Short version: To sync notes that you created on an iPhone to the Apple Mail application on a Mac, it...
New at SH: Comments and social media sharing!
Short version: each piece published at Strange Horizons now provides a way to post comments right there on the page,...
Talking Union
In the version of “Talking Union” that's on Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits, Seeger explains the origin of the song. I...
Self-reliant kids
An exchange between Karen and Jeremiah reminded me of this line: You bring up your children to be self-reliant and...
A dream of fins
Last night, I dreamed I was walking past a train station parking lot (like the one in Swarthmore), and I...
Writing advice of the day
This morning's net-browsing brings two sources of advice for writers (and, probably, other creators) that I thought were worth linking...
Supporting my local multiplex
I go to one or two movies a month in theatres these days. Most of the time, I go to...
When everyone understands the implications
I'm reading A Song for Arbonne, and though I'm liking it (more and more as it goes on), there's one...