The Digital Public Library of America Opens its Doors - A new website is the start of a bold project to digitize America’s cultural heritage.

Trigger Happy: roleplaying in a World Which Hates You. - Caias Ward is running a gaming Kickstarter.

Terminal Illness: Readers’ Best and Worst Airports - In which my opinion of the Newark airport is quoted ( Read more... )

Top 10 SF Signal Podcasts for 2012 - I immodestly note that I am part of the number one podcast.

The Hobbit: 48 and 24 Frames Per Second - Ben Peek is interesting.

Mazes & Monsters and the BADD old days: I’m collecting stories of the backlash against Dungeons & Dragons - Slacktivist Fred Clark brings back some memories. Though I never encountered ( Read more... )

Westward Weird came out yesterday - I have a story therein, "The Temptation of Eustace Prudence McAllen", first in the doc, which is a nice position. Various of my co-authors have commented on the anthology and their stories, including Seanan McGuire, Dean Wesley Smith, and Steven Saus.

Próba Kwiatów - Jay Lake - A mixed review, in Polish, of the ( Read more... )

Video: SWITL magic goop scoop - Weird robotics. (Thanks to ( Read more... )

As usual, I've been busy. Last night was OMSI Science Pub, this time with game designer Jane McGonigal giving her talk, "Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World." I believe her TED talk covers much of the same territory. Fascinating stuff.

Otherwise it was a day of Day Jobbery, editing Sunspin, helping the_child make ( Read more... )

Steampunk blogging at Babel Clash is under way - Some worthwhile entries by three of us from yesterday.

We've Spent 5.93M Years Playing WoW...?!? - Um... Um... Amazing. No wonder I get a lot of writing done. I believe this speaker, Jane McGonigal, is addressing an upcoming OMSI Science Pub on this topic. (Thanks to lt260.)

How animals and humans ( Read more... )

Don't forget the new caption contest [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ]

Paul Kincaid at Strange Horizons reviews Pinion - Hmm. The story belongs to the reader...

Planet Stories covers - Mmm, pulp. (Via Erotic Mad Science.)

Monkeys hate flying squirrels, report monkey-annoyance experts - "Monkey-annoyance expert": your job title for the future. (Via Ed ( Read more... )

criada reacts to The Specific Gravity of Grief - I was very touched by this one.

A reader reacts to Green - They really, really didn't like it. My favorite part of the review: I should have bought an IT book or something. Best book diss EVAR.

Some thoughts on uniformity - Paul Jessup on story telling.

Engendering Utopia: From Amazons to Androgyny - A ( Read more... )

Walt Kelly’s Pogo and the Jabberwocky

How to Play Monkey-Pirate-Robot-Ninja-Zombie - (Via @jackwilliambell.)

Castle of the Maidens - Honestly, I think I liked the Monty Python version better.

The Must Have Poncho For This Season - (Thanks to David G., who threatened to give me this for my birthday.)

Ballard Street anent my recent post about ( Read more... )

I find myself wondering, apropos of nothing much in particular, about the relationship between the genre community and gaming, specifically RPGs. So here's quick poll to satisfy nothing more than my curiosity.

Poll Gamers in Genre? Who knew?Did gaming launch you into genre? Does it keep you here? Does gaming time interfere with writing time, or vice versa? What does/did it ( Read more... )