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Saturday, October 23, 2010

2010 WSFA Small Press Award Nominees

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Location: CapClave in Rockville, Maryland. Comments: In 2010 Tansy Rayner Roberts won the WSFA Small Press Award with a story publishe...
Friday, October 22, 2010

Review - DragonQuest: A Novel by Donita K. Paul

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Short review: Kale's slow-moving, tensionless, pseudo-Christian fantasy adventures continue. Haiku Kale's false new mother A...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

Review - iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It by Steve Wozniak and Gina Smith

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Short review: Wozniak is a weird guy, but he is weird in exactly the way that was probably necessary to make the personal computer a rea...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Biased Opinion - Glen Beck Reaches for the Stupid, and Succeeds

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All I have to say to Glenn Beck is are you kidding me ? You cannot possibly be this stupid can you? You think that the fact that you've ...

Review - The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely

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Short review: Humans are much more irrational than standard economics assumes. This can be a good thing. Haiku Once again look at Ho...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Review - Profiles of the Future by Arthur C. Clarke

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Short review: Arthur C. Clarke speculates about what the future might be like. Haiku In Arthur Clarke's eyes Technology will mak...
Monday, October 18, 2010

Random Thought - Did the Stimulus Package Work?

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I'm a big fan of Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational ( read review ) and The Upside of Irrationality  ( read review ), both...

Realms of Fantasy Is Dead, Alas

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Having been saved from imminent death and resurrected last year, the magazine Realms of Fantasy is dead once again. Despite some fairly d...

Biased Opinion - Watching Sister Wives and Wondering

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So I've been watching the TLC series Sister Wives about Kody Brown and his three wives Meri, Janelle, and Christine. The primary story ...

Musical Monday - Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury by Rachel Bloom

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So this is a little late, but I figured the internet needed yet another posting of Rachel Bloom's incredibly funny and endearingly le...
Sunday, October 17, 2010

Review - The Far Side Gallery 4 by Gary Larson

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Short review: Gary Larson's strips are still really funny. Robin Williams' foreword is surprisingly bland. Haiku Fish on land...
Saturday, October 16, 2010

Review - Roma: The Novel of Ancient Rome by Steven Saylor

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Short review: The history of Rome from pre-foundation to the end of the Republic, told via a series of loosely connected short stories. ...
Friday, October 15, 2010

Review - Analog Science Fiction and Fact: Vol. CXXX, No. 11 (November 2010) by Stanley Schmidt (editor)

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Stories included: Phantom Sense by Richard A. Lovett and Mark Niemann-Ross Howl of the Seismologist by Carl Frederick Outbound by ...
Thursday, October 14, 2010

Review - Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 34, Nos. 10 & 11 (October/November 2010) by Sheila Williams (editor)

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Stories included: Becoming One With the Ghosts by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Several Items of Interest by Rick Wilber Torhec the Sculpto...