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Ever wondered what happened to John Hughes, the writer of teen comedies in the '80s? (He was in his mid-30s...

Mary Anne has posted info about this year's Strange Horizons writing workshops. They're both one-weekend intermediate-level workshops; one in Oregon...

Was looking at New Zealand tourism sites last night and came across the Zorb site. Put a person-sized transparent plastic...

I know I'm posting a lot today, but this just occurred to me and I thought it was worth mentioning,...

Saw this on boingboing the other day: Fantagraphics, publisher of many fine comic books, is facing severe financial problems, and...

Sarah L. points to an interesting BBC article about the Microsoft/AOL settlement. It notes, for example, that the $750M that...

Okay, this is becoming a trend, and it's got to stop. Everywhere I've looked in the past week or so,...

Talented and prolific author/editor/reviewer Jay Lake is the Featured Author of the new issue of Ideomancer, and editor Mikal Trimm's...

Vardibidian points to a fascinating New York Times article on creating constitutions. Good stuff. Taken with my previous entry, that...

Was talking with Kam the other day about how effective benign dictatorships can be, and how much people like 'em....

First, an exchange from lunch the other day (co-workers anonymized for their protection). We'd been talking about business-class air travel,...

So little time, so much to blog. I'll start with this item from Sterling's blog at the Infinite Matrix: The...