internet
More SF Blogs. . .
Follow-up to my post about SF writers who blog: I’ve come across another list of SF blogs at Whatever. . .
internet
Science <> Philosophy Either. . .
I just got an e-mail from fellow Hamster Astrid remarking on my clipmarked post from Meme Therapy that I mentioned earlier. She brought up Immanuel Kant and the Categorical Imperative which is, in fact, a pretty good way of building a moral philosophy without recourse to God or religion. . Read more…
cleveland
Burton Blog followup
Follow-up to my earlier post: Scott Weber at the Burton Blog has another post about writing, thought I’d pass it on.
writing
Some answers to the perennial question
I just recently finished the page proofs for “Fealty” and thinking about the weird genesis of that story gave me the thought to post an answer to the most-oft asked question of those in the fiction trade: where do I get my ideas? Instead of the pat answer most authors Read more…
speculation
What? They play football?
Ok, show of hands, how many people out there watch the Superbowl for the commercials? Now, think of this, how many Superbowl ads actually look like ads? At least like things we traditionally think of ads? How many of you have received a mepeg in your e-mail of a funny Read more…
internet
Science ranting continues without me…
Working on the technical aspects of this blog, feeds, Technorati etc… Found that my post on Memetherapy had taken on a life of its own on the Clipmarks site. Fly free little electrons. BTW- This is an object lesson in my earlier point about why you shouldn’t post anything you Read more…
cleveland
If you want to be a writer. . .
. . . then read this post on the Burton Blog, and while you’re at it you can get a in-depth look at small-town Ohio politics.
internet
“We’re sorry but your spam does not currently suit our needs . . .”
Anyone writing short stories over the past decade or so may have noticed something of an online renaissance of paying on-line markets for short fiction. I started submitting stuff for publication in the late eighties/early nineties, and at that time there were only a handful of professional markets; Analog, Asimov’s, Read more…
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New Blogger
Well, I just spent a good two hours updating this blog to the new Blogger layout, and if I’ve done everything right, you’ll probably notice no difference at all… Isn’t geekdom wonderful? Oh, BTW, you might notice I added links for site feeds next to all the categories in the Read more…