I never thought I’d live to see the day when the BBC News would have the headline: Space freighter given launch date Okay, it’s not quite as glamourous as all that but it’s still cool.
Category: Commentary
Short Stories
Jens Alfke pointed out The Loneliness Engine and also linked to his own We Had Black Boxes. Great stuff.
Promoting your book via blogging…
When Patry Francis was first diagnosed with colon cancer, she didn’t want anyone to know. “I wanted to be able to have lunch with people and not have them wonder if I was going to drop dead on the spot,” says Francis, the 52-year-old author of The Liar’s Diary, a sexy whodunit about self-deception, murder…
Strange Maps
This blog about strange maps is just fascinating.
We’re Space Marines, We’re Glorious…
I’m going to be writing a little more about Human Unity today and over the weekend concentrating on the space military. On Wednesday night, our gaming group chatted about old comics before we got stuck into DG. We indulged in nostalgia while stuffing our faces with Bhunas and Jalfrezis that were a lot hotter than…
The American Dream
It’s called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it. – George Carlin The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It’s over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now. -J….
Wii3D…VF….omfg…
Okay, I dig this.
Romero’s Blizzard
Very heavy snowfall overnight. Deeply uncharacteristic! ‘er indoors compared the ungainly gait and broken formations of the snow walkers to the shambling undead today. See why I love her?
Fairly Grim Fairy Tales
I was reading this the other day and it reminded me of a con game I ran, say 10 years ago. It was a sequel to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs where the seven little blokes decided they needed a maidservant again. The players decided that kidnapping Snow White from her life of humdrum…
NearByGamers.com
NearbyGamers hosts listings of gamers. Would you lot just sign up already?
Space is vast, dark and cold.
National Geographic’s Top 10 Space Pics of 2007 Breathtaking stuff. Inspiring too.
Merry Christmas
Not been writing much as I bought a couple of novels and want to chew through them. Most likely see you on the other side.
Screenplays
Slashfilm has the Black List. The list is compiled with a poll of 150 development executives and high-level assistants, and contains a ranking of the hot screenplays making the rounds in Hollywoodland, which were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2007 and will not be released in theaters during this calendar year.
How to get through the day…
Essential tips for enhancing your enjoyment at work at the expense of productivity I couldn’t survive without this list.
Evel Knievel is dead.
From the BBC: Legendary US daredevil Evel Knievel has died at the age of 69, his granddaughter has said. I’ve never seen Knievel do any of his stunts, in real life or on TV. I just know him through this: It was years until I found out it was based on a real person.
Half man, half tree
There’s a bloke in Indonesia who has a rare immune deficiency: he’s extremely susceptible to the Human Papilloma Virus. It’s not big and it’s not scary because in the rest of us it causes merely warts. Dede’s problem is that he has a rare genetic fault that impedes his immune system, meaning his body is…
The Golden Age of Retro-Future
From Dark Roasted Blend: This is the start of a new series, collection of the most inspiring & hard-to-find retro-futuristic graphics. We will try to stay away from the well-known American pulp & book cover illustrations and instead will focus on the artwork from rather unlikely sources: Soviet & Eastern Bloc “popular tech & science”…