Explosive water tricks
Two videos showing what happens when alkali metals encounter water: Ten tons of sodium, meet frozen lake (1947). Rubidium and...
Game update and GMing musings
Third session of my roleplaying game (out of a planned total of four) was on Sunday. It didn't go as...
Shake it up
Was sitting here working at my dining room table half an hour ago when the room started shaking. I thought...
Mindfulness
I could have sworn I'd written and posted this somewhere before, but various searches are turning up no sign of...
Meta-review: The Triplets of Belleville
The two things that everyone mentioned about The Triplets of Belleville back when it came out were that the movie...
The Big Rewrite
Some months back, Chad Fowler wrote a series of brief posts about "The Big Rewrite"--the fateful decision that many software...
Hamms OK with gays
A couple weeks ago, I happened across a brief article from 2004 at outsports.com, about Olympic athlete brothers Paul and...
Y: First issue free online
A year and a half ago, I reviewed the comic Y: The Last Man for SH. The series is about...
This morning’s best spam
Got spam email this morning addressed to webmaster@[my domain], with subject line "IRS Fears Ron Paul?" I figured it might...
Six more days
Reminder to authors: you have six more days (counting today) to submit to Strange Horizons before we close to subs...
“Debating The Year of Living Biblically”
A. J. Jacobs (an Esquire editor) wrote a book called The Year of Living Biblically, documenting his attempt to "Follow the...
Anti-technological sf
I'm sometimes surprised by how often sf stories are all about the evils of technology, and how much better unmodified...