I’ve never watched Lost because hello? I have a toddler. I haven’t had access to a television since he discovered Barney. For those of you who aren’t massively betoddlered and have some idea of what’s going on with the show, the folks at Insanely Great Tees have created downloadable labels so you can have your very own Dharma Initiative party.
Link (via BoingBoing)
The 2006 Nebulas will be awarded at the Nebula Awards Banquet at the Marriott, Financial Center in New York City on Saturday, May 12, 2007.
Novels
From the Files of the Time Rangers by Richard Bowes
The Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford
The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner
To Crush the Moon by Wil McCarthy
Seeker by Jack McDevitt
Farthing by Jo Walton
Novellas
“Sanctuary” by Michael A. Burstein (Analog, Sep05)
“Burn” by James Patrick Kelly (Tachyon Publications, Dec05)
“The Walls of the Universe” by Paul Melko (Asimov’s, Apr/May06)
“Inclination” by William Shunn (Asimov’s, Apr/May06)
Novelettes
“The Language of Moths” by Chris Barzak (Realms of Fantasy, Apr05)
“Two Hearts” by Peter S. Beagle (F&SF, Oct/Nov05)
“Little Faces” by Vonda N. McIntyre (SCI FICTION, 23 Feb05)
“Journey into the Kingdom” by M. Rickert (F&SF, May06)
“Walpurgis Afternoon” by Delia Sherman (F&SF, Dec05)
Short Stories
“Helen Remembers the Stork Club” by Esther M. Friesner (F&SF, Nov05)
“Pip and the Fairies” by Theodora Goss (Strange Horizons, 3 Oct05)
“Echo” by Elizabeth Hand (F&SF, Oct/Nov05)
“Henry James, This One’s For You” by Jack McDevitt (Subterranean #2, Nov05)
“The Woman in Schrodinger’s Wave Equations” by Eugene Mirabelli (F&SF, Aug05)
“An End To All Things” by Karina Sumner-Smith (Children of Magic, DAW Books, Jun06)
Scripts
Batman Begins
“The Girl in the Fireplace” Dr. Who
Howl’s Moving Castle
“Unfinished Business” Battlestar Galactica
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy
Devilish by Maureen Johnson
Razorbill Magic or Madness by Justine Larbalestier
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
Midnighters #2: Touching Darkness by Scott Westerfeld
Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
I just finished reading the Pfeffer book – it is a GREAT juvie!
SaveTheInternet.com, a Net Neutrality activist group, have just released an excellent video in support of a new law that would make Net Neutrality the law of the land. As Cory Doctorow says, “If the people around you don’t understand Net Neutrality, show them this. Show this to five friends this weekend, sign them up, and Save the Internet.”
Link (via BoingBoing)
(Yaknow, this would have made a great present for Chip’s birthday … )
The Scotsman reports that a Scottish firm has secured £40,000 for a project that amounts to “Macbeth: The Text Message.”
Cameron Taylor, a partner in the firm, said: “You will be able to text Macbeth, the character, and interact with that body of content. It will tell you where to go to get another part of the story.”
Kevin Kosbab of Mental_Floss became fluent in several synthetic languages in order to put together this crossword puzzle.
In order to solve this crossword puzzle, you’ll need to know a bit of Klingon, Elvish, Furbish, Esperanto and a handful of other constructed languages. In fact, all of the solutions are in constructed languages.
They helpfully include a “word bank” for those who haven’t mastered all of the tongues. (I mean, sure, everybody knows Klingon, but who ever heard of Esperanto?)
(via BoingBoing)
This marvy little blog features funny and thoughtful musings on life through the medium of graphs and diagrams written on index cards. I especially like these:
Life Sure Does Come At You Fast
:::giggle:::
(via Wil Wheaton)
These printable stickers are great for quietly slipping into textbooks, or just print the whole lot out and use it as a poster.
This book was anonymously donated to your school library to discreetly promote religious alternatives to the theory of evolution. When you are finished with it, please refile the book in the fiction section.
This is a fairly big list, but it looks like the guy is still taking submissions. I’m sure this group could think of a few more….
9. A virtual reality program is activated, and the distinction between reality and the program becomes confused or indistinguishable.
10. People connect their brains directly to computers and get dependent on them.
11. Aliens travel a zillion miles to loot the earth of resources which exist in far greater and much more easily exploitable quantities on the many uninhabited bodies they pass on the way to earth.
Link (sort of via Wil Wheaton, in that he mentions it in the latest ST review he’s doing over at TV Squad, and why aren’t you guys reading these, they’re hilarious, and I already pointed you to them way back here?)
Some lovely paintings of space colonies and other cosmic scenes, from “a future we forgot to have,” have been granted a Creative Commons license by the artist, Donald Davis. He was commissioned to do these in the 70s by NASA, and is now turning them over to the public domain. There’s some really neat, evocative stuff.
Link (via Paleo-Future)