Lullabies
More mood swings and sudden emotional storms. (I think an emotional weather forecast would be a useful thing. "Sullen overcast...
Caroling
Part 2 of Madeleine Rose Reardon Dimond's SH holiday story is now up, along with the rest of the new...
That time of year
Well, okay, it's not quite that time of year, but that time is coming up soon. You all know the...
Deep Thoughts
The other day, Susan mentioned "having an unexpectedly involved conversation . . . about evangelicals and John Locke" when she noticed her...
Mutants, race, silliness
Kam pointed me to a very entertaining article from last year, "Speaking Truth to Superpowers," at Modern Humorist. It's all...
Impeccible
I used to be extremely good at spelling. But sometime around ten years ago, shortly after college, I started noticing...
Megway
Everyone knows that Ginger/IT has been revealed to be the Segway Human Transporter, the overhyped one-person transportation unit that looks...
Male, female, BCF
Interesting line from Interzone's "Books Received": "Robin Hobb" is a pseudonym of Megan Lindholm . . . it seems Ms Lindholm's relaunching...
Warning: major time sink ahead
I warned you. Google is now providing access to a 20-year Usenet archive. Yes, you too can search for your...
Magazine stuff
I've been sadly remiss in talking about what's been up at Strange Horizons lately. A couple weeks ago, we had...
Editing all day long
Time out from reading submissions to say: Edited much of the day Saturday, before going to the party. Got home...
Mapping the energy nodes
Cute do-it-yourself physics experiment: Finding the Speed of Light with Marshmallows....