Internet piracy and Harlan Ellison
An interesting editorial at Revolution SF by Kenn McCracken about Ellison's anti-piracy case. I'm not sure I follow the box...
Immortal bananas
There I was at the grocery store. Figured I'd buy some organic bananas; I do that every couple weeks or...
Heinlein on Sturgeon
Vol. 3 of The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon includes an Afterword by Robert A. Heinlein, reprinted from the introduction...
Boom!
Half an hour ago, booming noises from outside summoned me to the window. Here on the fourth floor at work,...
Hacking the news
I have no idea how widely this was reported; I suppose chances are pretty good that anyone reading this entry...
Women in science fiction
Even the Associated Press has noticed that there are more women in sf these days. It's a kind of goofy...
Five Days in April
I was going through old mail, found a pointer to a good Ursula Pflug story, "Skyrise," at Chiaroscuro. Which led...
Room cleaning
I can't resist adding, as a footnote to that previous entry, one of my favorite anecdotes about me-as-a-kid: My room...
Clean clean
I told Kam that one of my goals for this weekend was to clean my apartment. I didn't really believe...
Truth vs. fiction
About a week ago, Karen sent me a link to that "Brother, if you don't mind..." story by Usman Farman....
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...
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...