A cute Ok/Cancel strip about Help-system usability testing....
Sorry for so many entries in rapid succession. One last thing for tonight: Another of the previews I saw before...
Someone recently wrote to Mike Resnick (and Resnick quoted in his “Ask Bwana” column in Speculations) about Asimov's robot stories....
It felt for a few days there like everywhere I turned I was running into some new item relating to...
I recently happened across Nick Gevers's top ten sf short story authors list (from 2001). And Paul Di Filippo's parodies...
I have a vague notion that there's a really nice Winter Solstice poem somewhere in the back of my head,...
Items proliferate faster than I can post 'em. There's an online (free) nation simulator game called Jennifer Government: NationStates. I've...
Soccamatic is the latest very short (2 min.) Wallace & Gromit movie from Nick Park. Not brilliant, but fun, and...
Toby Buckell points to the trailer for Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. My reaction pretty much duplicates Toby's,...
I was putting books on my bookshelves the other day and realized that Ingathering: The Complete People Stories, by Zenna...
First, Nao pointed to a BBC News article on how the Stradivarius got its sound; specifically: Scientists from Columbia and...
I mentioned the other day that I learned at an early age that spiders are our friends. It later occurred...