Save Trent's Teeth, Save His Life - Trent Zelazny needs help with a medical fundraiser of his own.

The Algorithm That Automatically Detects Polyps in Images from Camera Pills - Analysing the footage from camera pills is a time-consuming task for medical professionals. Now computer scientists are attempting to automate the process.

The British ‘ ( Read more... )

Roger Ebert, RIP - John Scalzi on Roger Ebert's passing. Sigh.

A statement from Chaz Ebert - Sigh.

Talia's Life: Coping with Cancer! - A 12 year old describes living with cancer. (Via ( Read more... )

The cover art of my German editions of Mainspring and Escapement has been nominated for the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis in the Beste Grafik category &mash; Which doesn't really have much to do with me directly, but is still pretty cool. Kudos to illustrator Max Meinzold.

Why Do We Hate Certain Words? - The curious phenomenon of word aversion.

‘I’m Google ( Read more... )

The Dark Stuff, Distilled - A review of The Americans.

Sit! Staaayyyy. Play Music! Good Dog! - iPhone Tamagotchi?Oookay… (Via my Dad.)

Do robot ants dream of electric crumbs? - Which is smarter: a swarm of brainless mini-robots with clockwork guts, or a colony of ravenous, half-blind Argentine ants? If you answered mindless robots, you’re right ( Read more... )

Hidden Menu - Secret food in a public world. (Via my Dad.)

Kidd's Toy Museum - A slightly oddball Portland attraction. (Via my Dad.)

The Cesar “biplan mixte”, circa 1910 - Oh, wow. That's just freaky.

Meshworm - A "soft robot".

The CIA's secret experiments to turn cats into spies - Weird stuff. (Thank to AH.)

Will Methane Hydrates Fuel Another ( Read more... )

The latest Lakeside trailer - Sigh.

Where Things Stand - Nearly 90% of the books reviewed by The New York Times are written by white writers. That is not even remotely reflective of the racial makeup of this country, where 72% of the population, according to the 2010 census, is white. We know that far more than 81 books were published by writers ( Read more... )

U.S. booksellers, meeting in KC, express optimism - (Thanks to ( Read more... )

The Acts of Whimsy cancer fundraiser and the Lakeside Kickstarter for the documentary about me, ( Read more... )

Fuck Yeah SciFi/Fantasy WOC - Author Scott Lynch responds to a critic of the character Zamira Drakasha, a black woman pirate in his fantasy book Red Seas Under Red Skies, the second novel of the Gentleman Bastard series. Plus Anne Bonny. Duh. (Via ( Read more... )

Oregon passed ballot measure to copy edit state constitution - On copy editors and Constitutions. (Via Slacktivist Fred Clark.)

Andy Serkis: The actor inside a character's skin

The Keep Calm-O-Matic - For all your icon and avatar generating needs. (Snurched from the Velveteen Rabbi.)

Sworn Virgins: Intimate Photos of Women Living as Men in the ( Read more... )