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Geeking Out on the Internet
NASA likes to wake up the shuttle crews with a lovely dose of specially hand-crafted William Shatner: Sometimes, relationships just don’t work out: And sometimes they do: Filed under: Humor,...
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Interesting Writings on a…Seriously? More snow? The leaves are changing for...
1) Justine Larbalestier makes what is a rare online appearance for her these days to explain to writers why they should love their bad reviews, not go around bullying reviewers and making themselves...
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Interesting Writings for a Finally Warm Saturday
This is actually a short one: 1) The Borders Blog fake duels of words between authors is fast becoming one of my favorite things. (More on that in a later post.) Here’s one between fantasy authors Sam...
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Stick Aliens in Pretty Dresses Persist
I haven’t had to do an aliens in pretty dresses post in awhile, for which I’ve been very glad. But I guess spring is likely to bring the stick aliens out in full force as clothing advertisers continue...
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Dear Ralph Fiennes, You’re A Wonderful Actor. You Speak Beautifully. Now Shut...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/8853427/Ralph-Fiennes-blames-Twitter-for-eroding-language.html Dear Ralph Fiennes, Obviously, in the rarified world bubble in which you regularly live, a...
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The Cycle Continues
Quote courtesy of author Nick Mamatas who gave it the heading of “The Internet Changed Everything!” ‘In Worcester, Springfield, and Hartford they were again greeted with rapture, and at Hartford,...
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The Next Emerging — DRM goes bye bye
One of the issues in trying to have discussions about the emerging retail e-book market is that many people have difficulty understanding what the word emerging actually means. We are so used to...
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Follow Up: Some of the Logistics Publishers Face Currently Regarding E-books
In regards to Nila’s comment on my DRM post, here’s some explanation about what’s involved with e-books for publishers from Michael Hyatt at Thomas Nelson, a large to medium sized press. Every one of...
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Interesting Articles for a New House
Instead of just dusting cobwebs out of me old blog, how about some cobweb art from artist Emil “Rocky” Fiore, who takes actual spider webs and funkily preserves them: I’m happy to say that my new house...
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Trafficking in a Net Language One Does Not Understand
So today I had a pingback comment for my I Am Sad post about the deaths of Ron Palillo and Harry Harrison. Pingbacks aren’t unusual, but I couldn’t tell what sort of site it was, so I clicked on the...
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If I Concentrate Really Hard, I Can Now Apparently Run the Planet
Your mind blower for the day. I mean, literally, a mind blower. Also an excellent holiday present: Puzzlebox Orbit’s Mind Controlled Helicopter Toy (also being developed for things like wheelchairs and...
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I Believe Most of Us Would Say that We Want One
Courtesy of Jim C. Hines‘ blog: Filed under: Art, Humor, SFFH, Technology Tagged: art, dragon, fantasy, humor, Internet videos, Jim C. Hines, robot dragon, theater
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Yay Science!
Filed under: Technology Tagged: advertising, alternate fuel sources, environment, Navy lab, science, science fiction becoming real life, technology
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Interesting Writings on Writing and Publishing
Lot going on here and in about three, four weeks, I’m going to be making some changes to the blog, but until then, have some more links! These are about writing fiction, book publishing and SFFH media:...
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Spam Poetry, Philosophical Version
My current batch of spam comments, when not in Asian print characters, has gone from admonishing me to philosophical cultural commentary. “Perhaps I’ve been looking at too many fashion magazines. There...
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A Thought for Our Age
Filed under: Humor, Technology Tagged: anti-tech fear-mongering, history, newspapers
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Gamesplayers Are A Mighty Wave
Once upon a time, a very angry man teamed up with some anti-feminist frothy guys to get revenge on his game-designer ex-girlfriend. They claimed that she had sex with a game reviewer in return for...
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Amazon Gives In
Every few years, giant we’re-selling-parts-of-the-moon-next conglomerate Amazon decides whether it’s going to keep selling books (a mere 7% of its revenues,) and when it decides, so far, that it’s...
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Various Geek Article Links
Some interesting bits and news from the Internet: Mindy at Skepchick ponders the science of Star Wars: The Force Awakens‘ Starkiller base. And speaking of Star Wars: The Force Awakens‘ Starkiller...
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“We really need to deal with climate change issues before there are no workable ways to solve some of the enormous problems from it that are already under way.” “What are we going to do about rogue...
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