Among other things, Google decides there are no Bisexuals. Computer virus attacks an Iranian nuclear power plant, along with a hefty chunk of the Iranian energy sector. Trash day at Google? The Feds want to wiretap your Facebook account. UPDATE: Why not set up a bureaucratic infrastructure to block websites Read more…
Elizabeth Moon upset a lot of people over the week and a half by posting about citizenship, the 9/11 attacks, and the proposed Cordoba cultural center a few blocks from Ground Zero. As she said about building the cultural center, she “should have been able to predict that this would Read more…
Over at Mighty God-King we have a critique of the new series, The Event. Now, I haven’t seen the show, and from what I’ve been reading about it, I don’t have any desire to, but MGK’s post brings up some very good points that are not just applicable to series Read more…
So rarely does the universe provide such an enlightening conflation of shallow facile consensus political wisdom, along with elitist literary snobbery as we have in this column by Maureen Dowd. Dowd has gotten the memo, that Christine O’Donnell is the designated political chew toy for this political cycle. O’Donnell is Read more…
Two unrelated things that I came across recently that should have some serious implications to anyone writing near-future SF. The first post is actually kind of obvious, in fact it touches on one of the central themes of the singularity. However, it hits a point that I don’t think is Read more…
Returning to my occasional bout with politics on this here blog, I thought I’d mention the somewhat wry amusement with which I’m watching the complete misunderstanding of the whole Tea Party thing. Even among allies of the movement, small and large-L Libertarians such as myself, saw the nomination of O’Donnell Read more…
Note: This post may contain spoilers, you’ve been warned. A while ago, I posted some tips on writing “tightly-plotted” fiction. This was in large part due to some reviewers using the term to describe my shaggy-dog space opera Apotheosis. However, after listening to the audiobook American Gods by Neil Gaiman Read more…
(NOTE: I’m going to start posting (some) political stuff on my blog again, the experiment with two blogs didn’t really work, and no one needs another political blog anyway.) Again with the asshats I say. And we have some wonderful hats of assness this time in the person(s) of a Read more…
I put these on Facebook, but I figured they also rated a spot on the blog.
For my birthday I got a subscription to Audible.com and I’ve lately been listening to American Gods by Neil Gaiman, turns out to be a great choice for an audio book given how deeply rooted the whole narrative is in storytelling. I daresay you won’t find so many stories-within-stories this Read more…