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Fast Forward 1: SF Review
Cory Doctorow has a lot of glowing things to say about Fast Forward 1, the first installment in an SF anthology edited by Lou Anders. Volume one has some stupendous stories. In Kage Baker’s humorous space opera “Plotters and Shooters,” a dysfunctional space-station’s cherished defense corps are upset by a tightly-wound otaku. In Elizabeth Bear’s…
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Wear Your Addiction on Your Ears
Made With Molecules jewelry offers earrings and necklaces in the shape of chemical molecules such as caffeine, theobromine (chocolate), serotonin, and estrogen, not to mention testosterone boxer shorts and oxytocin baby onesies. Wish I’d known about the onesies when Shadowboy was smaller. Link (via Making Light)
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If You Like…
I’m going to try to resurrect the “If You Like…” feature from the old site here in occasional blog entries, with an eye to eventually gathering up the suggestions and spanging them into searchable database form. The aim of this project is to suggest authors you might enjoy reading based on their similarity to authors…
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Logic Goats–Uh, Gates…No, Goats
Here’s a papercraft project that I find much more amusing than it probably ought to be. Teach kids how logic gates work by way of goats. The central processing unit lies at the heart of every computer, a vast collection of microscopically small switches and logic-gates. Now, through the power of paper we bring you…
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For GRRM fans
From http://grrm.livejournal.com/ 17th January 2007 12:20pm: HBO Options A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE Yes, it’s true. Yes, this is the Big News that I have been hinting at. No, the Big News was not the pizza crawl, or the delivery of the new WILD CARDS book, though of course I’m excited about those as…
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Sci Fi to Produce Diamond Age Miniseries
Neal Stephenson’s Hugo award-winning The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer is being made into a six-hour miniseries for the Sci Fi Channel. When a prominent member of society concludes that the futuristic civilization in which he lives is stifling creativity, he commissions an interactive book for his daughter that serves as a…
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Stop the PERFORM Act, Save the Ability to Record Radio
Congress has reintroduced the PERFORM Act, a broadcast flag for radio. If it passes, you can wave goodbye to the idea of recording digital radio or Internet radio. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a Web page to help you write to your Congresscritter to protest this. This bill aims to hobble TiVo-like devices for satellite…
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Edible Squid-Flavored Postcards
Let loved ones know you’re thinking of them by sending them an edible postcard made of squid jerky. That may be one of the most surreal sentences I’ve ever written. Produced by the Susami fishing cooperative, Surumail postcards consist of dried surume squid (Todarodes pacificus), the local seafood specialty. The squid jerky is flattened and…
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And all I got was this silly T-shirt …
From NewScientist.com . . . The winning entries in the New Year Competition. The challenge was to compose a text message of no more than 160 characters, sent home by an alien who has just arrived on our planet. Here, then, in no particular order, are the 10 winners, as chosen by a ballot among…
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Robert Anton Wilson, RIP
Robert Anton Wilson passed away early yesterday morning. From his final blog post: I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying. Please pardon my levity, I don’t see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd. Fnord