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My Worldcon schedule
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Last couple of days to vote for DUFF, the Down Under Fan Fund. I am a candidate. Voting closes on the 31st. Send in a ballot right now!
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It has been way too long since I posted here ( Read more... ) -
strange aeons
Yesterday would have been H.P. Lovecrafts 120th birthday. He would have been astonished at the influence his horror stories have had. And even more astonished, and probably deeply disturbed, at the few people who take his work seriously (I'll be covering the influence of Lovecraft in the modern occult world in my 'Sorcerers and Storytellers' ( Read more... ) -
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I have learnt so much from watching The Wire, some of it potentially useful to know. For example, formal meeting procedure can be useful in coordinating any group activity, but the requirements for taking good minutes laid out in Roberts Rules of Order should be relaxed when engaging in criminal conspiracy. -
Gillard and Rudd - thoughts for the future
I have a hope for Julia Gillard that she has the potential to be like Keating without the baggage and the bad timing. Competence, some wit and flair, and maybe a couple of big stands on some issues once she has won an election. She is witty and self-assured. Of course, she is currently very hemmed in on a lot of policy issues, and we won't see a ( Read more... ) -
Boxing Clever
Just a little thinking out loud about thinking ( Read more... ) -
City music
Bruce Sterling (via Chris Arkenberg at boingboing) tells us why to think about cities (which I have been), and gives us his personal urban soundtrack (Ladytron). Here are some parts of my own personal urban soundtrack ( Read more... ) -
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I'm not going to make it back from Sydney in time to attend, unfortunately, but I urge all my Perth foodie friends, especially those who are interested in all the different aspects of the ethics around food (food miles, vegetarian/veganism, self-sufficiency and urban gardening, etc) to attend the Bluestocking Institutes workshop tonight. Info here, ( Read more... )