Posted in Uncategorized on March 31, 2007 | 5 Comments »
My thanks to everyone who responded to for SFWAns and potential SFWAns. I tried hard to be objective in phrasing the questions, but as Jed noted, I didn’t quite succeed. I don’t mind that for a couple of reasons:
1. The questions were only meant to elicit the range of opinions on copyright. Someone would have [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes I love acronyms too much. Now that that’s out of my system:
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have begun a LiveJournal community here. Everyone’s welcome to join.
Posted in Uncategorized on March 30, 2007 | 10 Comments »
GriefCom and the EMF.
If you know what those are, you understand. Skip the rest of this. If not, here’s a bit of confession:
When I was a young reader, I thought SFWA was cool. They gave the Nebula Awards to the stories I loved.
When I was a young fan, I thought SFWA was cooler. They threw [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 29, 2007 | 14 Comments »
Okay, I’m slow sometimes. Just realized I should’ve posted the following two questions here for people who hate Blogger’s commenting system. (Looking at you, Steve.) It repeats my blogspot post of the same name:
If you have no interest in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, please skip this post.
I’m trying to gather information [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 29, 2007 | 12 Comments »
Just took this quiz: What Do You Really Know About The Bible?
The response:
Congratulations! You scored 42 correct out of 50!
40 - 50: Wow! You know more than a minister, priest, or rabbi!
30 - 39: Congratulations! Better informed than most Americans
20 - 29: Passing Grade
10 - 19: Did you get your bible knowledge from Sunday School?
0 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Nick Mamatas wrote Freelancers Unite! in 2004. It’s still pertinent.
Posted in Uncategorized on March 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Mario Milosevic has been serializing a novel written in 100 word chapters at Terrastina and Mazolli. It’s extremely episodic, so reading one or two at a time works well. I especially liked today’s, and since it’s short, I’ll post it all as a sampler:
Episode 114: It’s Hard to Invent Something Really New
The twins discover [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Charlie’s Diary: Why the commercial ebook market is broken
Posted in Uncategorized on March 27, 2007 | 40 Comments »
update: You may also answer this on my LiveJournal if you prefer its commenting system.
If you have no interest in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, please skip this post.
I’m trying to gather information from potential, present, and former SFWAns about two things:
1. SFWA has an Electronic Piracy Awareness Campaign that’s displayed prominently [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 27, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Now, you may be thinking it’s getting so there’s a holiday for everything. But this one matters. If you think there’s the tiniest chance you have diabetes, or if you’d like to have something to back your certainty that you don’t: Diabetes Risk Test
