Darths and Droids
Back in 2006, a guy named Shamus Young posted a couple of strips of a photonovel-style webcomic with the following...
Valentine abstraction
Aaron pointed to some art pages by Christoph Niemann, including a nice bit about turning classic artwork into a bathroom-tile...
Imminent Bay Area convention: Potlatch
Potlatch will be held in Sunnyvale this year, and it's coming up fast: it starts three weeks from now. For...
This week’s SH fiction: “This Must Be the Place”
This week at Strange Horizons: "This Must Be the Place," by Elliott Bangs--a story of love, time travel, and music:...
What would your younger self think of you?
If some younger version of you could see you now, what aspects of your current self would they be unhappy...
Give me that old science fiction
I've been reading (well, mostly skimming) the stories in The Best of Lester del Rey, and just found this line: "War...
Lab-grown diamonds in rings
Back in 2003, I posted an entry pointing to a Wired article about synthetic diamonds. (I also linked in passing...
Review: Inkheart (book)
I saw a preview for the forthcoming Inkheart movie a few months back, and it looked like fun--and it appeared...
Why you should test your pages in more than one browser
I've always been an advocate of testing web pages in multiple browsers to make sure everything works. Now there's new...
Month One, 2009
Submission volume at SH was tapering off toward the end of the month, until this past week when we had...
Cleaner
Three weeks ago, I cleaned most of the house, excepting my room (and didn't finish various things, like vacuuming). I'm...
Newspapers online in 1981
"Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, [and] turning on your home computer to read the day's...