Dude. Two people I have personally met won awards at the Nebulas tonight.

Congratulations to Naomi Novik for winning the Nebula for best novel for Uprooted!

And congratulations to Fran Wilde for winning the Andre Norton award for YA for Updraft! It's her first novel! Woah.

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The science behind how awesome running is. Now if only my vertigo ( Read more... )

I love that the tech is now available for these really marvelous short animated films to be made independently.

I've been making cookies lately, although not specifically Christmas cookies. Molasses cookies, snicker doodles, and Mark Bittman's butter cookies with pecans and crystallized ginger (which were a bit of a disappointment). Here's an ( Read more... )

No time for a full post, but I was wondering: has anyone else been reading Lindsey Buroker's Emperor's Edge fantasy series? They're steampunk with a spunky heroine, but quite engagingly characterized, with fast-but-clear action sequences and fairly decent world-building. Youthful cop Amaranthe Lokdon gets tripped up by politics and ends up on the ( Read more... )

Well, the brief hot weather blitz is over: we're back to fog again. My sinuses appreciate it, but I'm kind of sad, because we never really got a real summer. This is the first year since I moved to the Bay Area that I never needed to get the fan out of storage.

On the other hand, great news for the East Bay!One of the hazards of Kickstarter ( Read more... )

Pro Publica (rapidly becoming one of the best sources for critical-thinking journalism around) has a story on private contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, inspired by new information coming out of Wikileaks ( Read more... )

Well. I know what I'm getting my sister for her birthday. Because she's certainly the biggest Springsteen fan I know, and the idea of an entire documentary about the making of Darkness on the Edge of Town even makes me excited, and I've only seen him perform half a dozen times, while my sister has lost count. Woot.

Which makes me ask: ( Read more... )