Switzerland joins UN, Harry Potter made downloadable, film at 11
Huh—I'm sure y'all who watch newscasts 'n' stuff already knew about this, but I only just heard that Switzerland has...
‘zup?
I keep meaning to post an update, honest. Busy. Lessee. Work gave me a pen in honor of my third...
Empathy Day?
This is by Vyomananda Paramacarya; the original version is still available on LiveJournal (complete with hundreds of comments; it seems...
GOTH WORLD
I kept meaning to take a photo of the sign at ConJosé outside the Civic Auditorium that said: CONJOSE 60TH...
Another minor milestone
Strange Horizons received our 3000th fiction submission on 4/8/2002, as noted at the time. We received our 4000th sometime in...
Science fiction interactive comic strip
Some phenomenal work is being done in new media centered on the Web. Latest thing I've encountered in this area...
Hugo predictions
The SF Weekly Unofficial Hugo Poll ended up correctly predicting 8 of the winners, and incorrectly predicting 6 of them....
Civic Hybrid review
There's a long and detailed and fairly interesting review of the 2003 Honda Civic Hybrid over at Ars Technica, in...
Post-WorldCon submission deluge
Huh. 27 stories submitted in the past 48 hours; that's about double our normal submission volume. If you're thinking of...
Total number of Hugo ballots
To quote the flyer from the con, "ConJosé received 924 valid ballots for the awards." Yes, that's right, only 924...
Numbers game
Meant to mention that although WorldCon (at around 5000 attendees) is the biggest gathering of the broad books-and-stuff side of...
IRV in action
If you're interested in the details of the Hugo voting, see the voting breakdown page. Instant Runoff Voting came into...