Return of the sf newsblog!
I haven't had a chance to check most of my usual online haunts for the past few days, so I'm...
Bush/Kerry slash
In the Sept. 13 issue of the New Yorker (also available online), there's a Paul Rudnick piece called "Running Mates,"...
Correction
Oops—what an embarrassing mistake. I wrote here a week ago that Cheryl had won the Best Fan Writer Hugo; what...
Digits of e
In the Harvard Square T (subway) station, there are big banners that say: { first 10-digit prime found in consecutive...
General life update
I almost never comment on it when I'm sleeping well, and I regularly comment on it when I'm not, which...
Golden age
When my friends first started having kids (the first such child was Jazz, born in 1994), I thought: Cool, now...
Hugo voting details
The detailed Hugo voting results have been posted on the Noreascon site. As usual, there are a couple of items...
Fabulous encyclopedia quasi-RPG
The coolest thing I've encountered all week: A roleplaying game/collaborative-worldbuilding system called Lexicon, "in honor of its inspiration, Milorad Pavic's...
Online tile game
Michael showed me a cool tile puzzle/game today called Tantrix. Despite the name, it has nothing to do with sex;...
My news
As many of you know, I haven't been very happy with my day job lately. There are a lot of...
WorldCon quasi-report
As usual, I doubt I'll manage a full blow-by-blow con report. But here are some notes. The low point of...
O for a Muse of paper!
Am staying at Bhadrika & Steve's in Somerville at the moment. (I keep being startled by the fact that Wolf...