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Even more morbid in retrospect

Just saw this discussion from last November and December in an online forum about what would happen if a passenger...

Jed

September 22, 2001
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Reading and watching

What I really meant to say in the previous entry was that I've been running into a lot of WWII-era...

Jed

September 22, 2001
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Sturgeon

I've been reading the Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon series, edited by Paul Williams. (We interrupt this entry for a...

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September 22, 2001
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Rumor patrol

Thank goodness for Barbara and David Mikkelson, the folks who run the Urban Legends Reference Pages. They're on the job...

Jed

September 21, 2001
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Patriots for peace

Catherine Pellegrino adapted Peggy's stars-and-stripes peace symbol into two GIF images, at different sizes. If you like them, by all...

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September 21, 2001
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Deux mille

I forgot to mention: Strange Horizons received our 2000th fiction submission this morning! That's an average of a little under...

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September 20, 2001
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Scientific accuracy

Interesting article at HMS Beagle on scientific accuracy in movies and TV—covers some of the same ground all such articles...

Jed

September 20, 2001
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Succinct

I probably could've summarized that last entry by just saying this: Lynch mobs thought they were justified too. But inside...

Jed

September 20, 2001
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Trial by jury, trial by fire

I don't normally do online petitions. Email petitions have a lot of problems; the Web ones address many of those...

Jed

September 20, 2001
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What do you know about Afghanistan?

For example, did you know that the afghani is a unit of money, and that the correct term for a...

Jed

September 20, 2001
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Small Beer Press

More old-but-good news from the small-press world: The first two books published by Gavin Grant's Small Beer Press, Stranger Things...

Jed

September 19, 2001
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Do what I say, not what I do

Regarding my earlier entry titled "Carpe Diem": I ought to have noted that I often don't practice what I preach...

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September 19, 2001
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