Peeve: Stereopsis and depth perception
I see this regularly in stories, but I also hear people say it regularly in real life, and I just...
Zinsser
Just came across something I posted to a mailing list back in mid-1999; thought it was worth recycling as a...
Backstory
This occurred to me, more or less irrelevantly, while I was reading a story in Asimov's recently: Fiction is often...
Items: Hodgepodge
Okay, I've run out of themes. Here's everything else. Article titled "The Myth of the Black Irish: Spanish Syntagonism and...
Items: Words and names
Glesga Glossary. This would've come in handy during WorldCon. List of Yiddish Words and Expressions. See also Yiddish with...
Items: Technology and computers
Heavier-than-air military airship: the Walrus. See also the SkyCat. Project Gutenberg now has free audiobooks, apparently including some read...
Items: Sad news from all over
This is probably all old news by now, but I wanted to at least note it all in passing. I...
Items: Sf-related
I imagine those of you who care have already read the TIME interview with Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon....
Items: Audio, video, interactive
Director Michel Gondry's Lego video for "Fell in Love with a Girl" by the White Stripes. I can't make...
Item-blogging and social bookmarking
It occurred to me a couple of times recently that rather than try to find time to sort the vast...
Advocacy
Five years ago, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote a piece called Why I Hate Advocacy, objecting to people who tout one programming...
Cirque Eloize in SF through this week
Beth tells me that she just saw Cirque Éloize's "Rain" at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco. She loved it;...