Jay Lake 2013 Hugo Nomination - A short video clip from Norwescon of my nomination being read out. (Thanks to ( Read more... )

The Acts of Whimsy cancer fundraiser is still live. It has made goal, but additional support is always welcome, especially given my new complications. Please check it out if you have not done so yet.

A final update from Waterloo Productions on their Kickstarter - Including a video segment I find very hard to watch.

Digital Doesn’t Matter: ( Read more... )

The Acts of Whimsy cancer fundraiser is still live. It has made goal, but additional support is always welcome, especially given my new complications. Please check it out if you have not done so yet.

The Lakeside Kickstarter has expanded its stretch goals to include documenting the science around my genomic testing by traveling to the testing lab ( Read more... )

Fernweh for Magellanica - Fernweh is what the Germans call that longing for faraway places, the poetic certainty that things are better elsewhere. But there is a superlative degree of geographic desire, a Fernweh even more sublime: the ache for fictional faraway places.

The Cost Of Free Doughnuts: 70 Years Of Regret - The risks of categorical ( Read more... )

A shot in the dark - Roger Ebert on healthcare. Many of the opponents of Universal Health Care identify themselves as Christians, yet when you get to the bottom of their arguments, you'll find them based not on Christianity but on Ayn Rand capitalism. Financial self-interest and the rights of corporations are more important to them than loving ( Read more... )

Peering Into the Exquisite Life of Rare Books

American Baby Names Are Somehow Getting Even Worse - Hahahah.

You People Quit Bothering Goat Man and Goat Man Mystery Solved! - Just when you thought it was safe to go outside…

Researchers control reactions between just two atoms - Reactions depend on something called the "hyperfine state."

With ( Read more... )

This Embarrasses You and I* - Grammar Gaffes Invade the Office in an Age of Informal Email, Texting and Twitter. Ah, prescriptivism.

Chasing a Prairie Tale - Buffalo, the Pawnee, and an old story on a trip across the plains. Reflections on frontier Nebraska. (Thanks to my Dad.)

Stonehenge Was A Monument To Tribal Unification, Says Researchers - ( Read more... )

"Remember, Harlan!" said the driftglassman - Harlan Ellison and a copyright problem.

Junot Diaz and Min Jin Lee Tell it Like it is #origins #doubt #why people want to become writers - (Via @literaryanimal.)

Why Fingernails on Blackboards Sound So Horrible - Heh.

Scientists: Modern humans mated with different species - Rishathra, anyone?

China ( Read more... )

The present life of man, O king, seems to me, in comparison of that time which is unknown to us, like to the swift flight of a sparrow through the room wherein you sit at supper in winter, with your commanders and ministers, and a good fire in the midst, whilst the storms of rain and snow prevail abroad; the sparrow, I say, flying in at one door, ( Read more... )