Expanding empire
I've neglected to mention a couple new additions to the ever-expanding set of people and sites I host here at...
National Library of Poetry
Hee hee—poet Mike Allen submitted a "poem" titled "The Big Scam" to the National Library of Poetry. The NLP, of...
Help usability
A cute Ok/Cancel strip about Help-system usability testing....
Another upcoming sf movie
Sorry for so many entries in rapid succession. One last thing for tonight: Another of the previews I saw before...
Three laws for the robot-kings
Someone recently wrote to Mike Resnick (and Resnick quoted in his “Ask Bwana” column in Speculations) about Asimov's robot stories....
Short sf
It felt for a few days there like everywhere I turned I was running into some new item relating to...
Top ten short story authors (2001)
I recently happened across Nick Gevers's top ten sf short story authors list (from 2001). And Paul Di Filippo's parodies...
Shortest day, longest night
I have a vague notion that there's a really nice Winter Solstice poem somewhere in the back of my head,...
Tidbits
Items proliferate faster than I can post 'em. There's an online (free) nation simulator game called Jennifer Government: NationStates. I've...
New mini Wallace and Gromit short
Soccamatic is the latest very short (2 min.) Wallace & Gromit movie from Nick Park. Not brilliant, but fun, and...
Sky Captain!
Toby Buckell points to the trailer for Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. My reaction pretty much duplicates Toby's,...
No different flesh
I was putting books on my bookshelves the other day and realized that Ingathering: The Complete People Stories, by Zenna...