(Linking to an NPR Post ABOUT THIS, I added:)

I remember when OMNI magazine had an article about a fiction-writing artificial intelligence named Racter.

Elsewhere today I on Facebook I linked to an article about a thesis-writing app that has suddenly become a tool for abuse among scientific scholarly “authors”.

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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of October 24, 2013"If you’re in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark." That helpful advice appears in Norwegian Wood, a novel by Haruki Murakami. Now I'm passing it on to you, just in time for your cruise through the deepest, darkest phase of your cycle. When you first ( Read more... )

I've decided to re-serial post Chillin' Out on DeviantArt, and set it to some of the Creative Commons permissions.

Maybe this will goad me into finishing it.

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of June 14, 2012Nineteenth-century Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev once called his fellow novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky a "pimple on the face of literature." But more than a hundred years after that crude dismissal, Dostoyevsky is a much more highly regarded and influential writer than Turgenev. Use this as inspiration, ( Read more... )

From Restaurant At The End Of The Universe, content excerpted from the Glossary of The Hitchhikers' Guide To The Galaxy (which excerpted it from the backside of a package of breakfast cereal):

The Universe--some information to help you live in it.

[SNIP!--for brevity]

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It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, ( Read more... )

I was wondering where Mum's Kobo e-reader was so this morning I got Dad to find it. It turned out that he had set it on his dresser without knowing what it was ( Read more... )

This may or may not surprise you: while I did "go to college", I never actually "left home" and so I had a front row seat for my mother's entire literary career. She started by subscribing to Writer's Digest magazine at about the time my brother started school, and she took up the magazine's correspondence courses in creative writing. After a few ( Read more... )

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