Voting and sex
Votergasm suggests that people pledge to withhold sex from non-voters and/or have sex with voters, a proposition I know will...
Return of the Jed
By the way, I'm back home. Flew from Boston to SFO yesterday (spent most of the trip alternating between napping...
Names on pages
It seems to happen fairly often lately: I'll follow a link and find myself at someone's blog. It's an attractive...
Fake guidelines contest deadline reminder
Neverary's fake submission guidelines contest closes on September 25; if you want to enter but haven't, now's the time. See...
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...