A 5.2-magnitude earthquake hit just south of Gilroy (between 25 and 50 miles south of here), about half an hour...
According to CNN, a growing number of straight people over 50 are getting HIV. "Women after menopause are not going...
Various friends have pointed me to the notion of Googlewhacking, but I haven't seen much discussion outside of the geek...
I was relieved this morning to see a submission come in; it's been over two days since the last legitimate...
I spent Monday morning through Thursday afternoon of this past week indoors, at my desk, not seeing anyone. And then...
The Hugo ballot is now online. Remember, votes are due by July 31, 2002. If you have a Hugo PIN,...
Fred also mentioned a 15th- to 16th-century abbot named Johannes Trithemius (much less fictional, as far as I can tell,...
Fred points me to a lovely page about a 13th-century Benedictine monk whose attempt at mathematically modeling the journey of...
Kendra tells me that LDS (the Mormon church) is growing fast; 40%+ (per year? I forget). Why do people convert,...
Wil McCarthy has a cute article on "The Physics of Spider-Man" at SF Weekly. He discusses super-strength, wall-crawling, web-swinging, and...
One more thing about last night: I thought it was interesting that three or four people congratulated me on SH...
Eileen Gunn let me know the other day that Nicola Griffith was going to be reading from her new novel...