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...
Sturgeon
I've been reading the Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon series, edited by Paul Williams. (We interrupt this entry for a...
Rumor patrol
Thank goodness for Barbara and David Mikkelson, the folks who run the Urban Legends Reference Pages. They're on the job...
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...
Deux mille
I forgot to mention: Strange Horizons received our 2000th fiction submission this morning! That's an average of a little under...
Scientific accuracy
Interesting article at HMS Beagle on scientific accuracy in movies and TVcovers some of the same ground all such articles...
Succinct
I probably could've summarized that last entry by just saying this: Lynch mobs thought they were justified too. But inside...
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...
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...
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...
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...