Too many tabs open!
They're giving Liar a new cover. Yay!
Although, some of the remarks about cover art/design as a "marketing tool" strike me as kind of silly or irksome. I'm not complaining about changing art to incorporate more diversity, but switching a pencil from a boy's left hand to his right in the cover art so that it'll appeal to a wider audience? REALLY? OMG I can't connect to someone who holds their writing instruments in their SINISTER hand!
http://www.100abandonedhouses.com/
Some of those houses are gorgeous.
Republicans Propagating Falsehoods in Attacks on Health-Care Reform
Well, duh. But at least someone in a newspaper finally says it out loud. (via sinboy)
Wait, the name "MammothFAIL" was claimed already...
TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley
The comments are still coming in.\n
This is why Science Fiction can’t have nice things Because the title and footnotes make me giggle.
OK, so it's been about a decade since I read (and enjoyed) Paul di Filippo or SF on a regular basis, but still, it was enough to do a *headdesk* as another writer goes down in flames... and bad metaphors. (The worst was reading the email exchanges between him and rosefox: "...are people too" and "The best part of beating your head against a wall is how good it feels when you stop.")
Singapore's national day is coming up August 9th. The comments on this page make me proud:
God sneaks into our classrooms
On the other hand, the people on the Straits Times STOMP site? Not so much.
Although, some of the remarks about cover art/design as a "marketing tool" strike me as kind of silly or irksome. I'm not complaining about changing art to incorporate more diversity, but switching a pencil from a boy's left hand to his right in the cover art so that it'll appeal to a wider audience? REALLY? OMG I can't connect to someone who holds their writing instruments in their SINISTER hand!
http://www.100abandonedhouses.com/
Some of those houses are gorgeous.
Republicans Propagating Falsehoods in Attacks on Health-Care Reform
Well, duh. But at least someone in a newspaper finally says it out loud. (via sinboy)
Wait, the name "MammothFAIL" was claimed already...
TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley
The comments are still coming in.\n
This is why Science Fiction can’t have nice things Because the title and footnotes make me giggle.
OK, so it's been about a decade since I read (and enjoyed) Paul di Filippo or SF on a regular basis, but still, it was enough to do a *headdesk* as another writer goes down in flames... and bad metaphors. (The worst was reading the email exchanges between him and rosefox: "...are people too" and "The best part of beating your head against a wall is how good it feels when you stop.")
Singapore's national day is coming up August 9th. The comments on this page make me proud:
God sneaks into our classrooms
On the other hand, the people on the Straits Times STOMP site? Not so much.