• Church investors file shareholder resolutions at BP and Shell
  Anglicans trying to save the planet.
  (tags: climatechange religion )
• Facebook Prince Purges The New Republic: Inside the Destruction of a 100-Year-Old Magazine
  Generation clash with a vengeance!
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• Attending the World Science Fiction convention on the other side of ( Read more... )

This fascinating 25-minute documentary about the 1979 Worldcon, Seacon '79 in Brighton, was flagged up to me by Alastair Reynolds on Twitter (he being one of the dozens of people who I had hoped to see in person last week and shamefully failed to link up with). It is a bit grainy but very watchable for those of us who are interested.

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As some of you know, I was Director of Promotions for Loncon 3, the recently concluded World Science Fiction Convention. If I have the energy, I will write up longer thoughts about the entire event, but just here and now I want to record the three coolest things that happened to me - all on the same day, Sunday 17th.

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• 12 Things We Learnt at LonCon3 Tor Books
  (tags: loncon3 )
• Con Report: LonCon 3 (Worldcon 2014) - Over The Effing Rainbow
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My Worldcon is going to be dominated by being Loncon 3's Director of Promotions, and yet somehow my friends in the Programme Division have scheduled me on more items than any other member of the Committee. (Having said which, at least I am not Paul Cornell who admits to being on seven items, including the Thursday interview of George R.R. Martin ( Read more... )

• Hugo Award Eligible Art(ists)
  Possible nominees gathered.
  (tags: loncon3 sf art )
• EU freedom of movement. This stuff matters.
  @jonworth lays it out.
  (tags: eu migration ukpolitics li )
• My attendance record (by a UKIP MEP)
  His own words: "flaky to say the least. But so what? "
  (tags: ukpolitics eu )
• Coalition partners reject Tory MPs' call for veto ( Read more... )