The Hobbit: The Desolation of Tolkien - Daniel Larison is very unhappy with Peter Jackson. I pretty much agree with his points, though I am perhaps less vociferous in my articulation thereof.

Literary self-loathing: How Jonathan Franzen, Elizabeth Gilbert and more keep it at bay - Really? Yeah, maybe for them, but I’m with Scalzi on this one. ( Read more... )

Novelist Error Messages - Hahahah. (Thanks to Lisa Costello.)

Where writers get their ideas - Hahah.

6 Modern Playgrounds to Make Your Inner Child Lose Its Mind - Some weird stuff. Hah. (Via ( Read more... )

Milo Fowler is giving away a personalized copy of my new novella from Prime Books, Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh

Famous Novelists on Symbolism in Their Work and Whether It Was Intentional - Boy, do I have a lot to say about this. (Via Beverly Block.)

You, Me, and Every Word We Know - Ta-Nehisi Coates on the languages of labeling, in-groups ( Read more... )

Jade - A middling review of the French edition of my novel Green.

The Jay Wake Book is Complete - Hooray for Sandra Tayler, hero of the revolution!

Classic TV show maps - in pictures - At first the arrangements seem random, but with Monty Python's Flying Circus across the road from Fawlty Towers, and The Killing adjacent to The Bridge (and The ( Read more... )

Metatropolis: Green Space Out Today + Metatropolis Trade PB On the Way

As We May Type - New generations of outliners and writing tools.

Small scale, small contribution - The 1.26 billion people whose countries belong to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development account for 42 percent of emissions. The rich, if they reduced ( Read more... )

The Wisdom of the Dead - Ah, me. (And yes, this is in part about me.)

"All great science fiction must have a basis in science fact" - Hahahah.

Is this the most extraordinary human brain ever seen? - (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.)

Deadly 13th-Century Volcano Eruption: Mystery Solved? - Scientists find source of massive eruption felt centuries ago ( Read more... )

Story Bone - Steve Buchheit riffs on my new career as a psychopomp.

The Telltale Door: 1931 - Edgar Allan Poe's mother's house.

BLDG BLOG on books recently received - Interesting stuff, but if both else, click through to see the photo they lead the piece with. Amazing.

Forget Venus and Mars, we’re beginning to understand gender behavior on Earth ( Read more... )

Yesterday Lisa Costello asked me a question I've already been asked in several other contexts. It's also a question I actually expect to come up in an adversarial way if my disability claims are ever audited. She said, "If you can blog, why can't you write ( Read more... )

Jay Lake and the Story a Week Experiment - An interview with me by Catherine Schaff-Stump.

Want to win the JayWake edition of my new book Jay Lake's Process of Writing? Here are the details

'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.': Can 'Avengers' magic make the jump to TV?

How Google Converted Language Translation Into a Problem of Vector Space ( Read more... )

Time tourism - Charlie Stross Is Interesting on time travel.

Apple: We're Not Storing An Image Of Your Fingerprint On The New iPhone

Hacking Consumer Devices - Nice... (Via David Goldman.)

Roman brothel token discovered in Thames - A Roman coin that was probably used by soldiers to pay for sex in brothels has been discovered on the banks of the ( Read more... )