Posts under ‘Fun stuff’

My latest post for Science in My Fiction, on the naming of organisms, went up on Friday. I wouldn’t mind at all if you read it and left a comment. Or two.
As I slowly dig out of my current pile of stuff, let me entertain you with this video that’s been making the rounds. [...]

If you haven’t seen this picture of volcano and lightning, you need to.
There are plenty more volcano pictures with varying degrees of Doom on Flickr.
And finally, if any of you are on Twitter, I’m looking for people to play Fallen London with (called Echo Bazaar formally, I think). It’s clever, not very time-consuming, and [...]

Band OK Go wins the Internet.

(via Topless Robot)
Edit: Wired has an article on the making of this video, with videos of its own. It really was done in a single shot!

Patrick Rothfuss, writer and generous human being, runs a fundraiser for Heifer International each year (to which he donates a lot of his own money and even more of his own time). He’s enlisted the SFF community to good effect: this year there were all sorts of prizes available, from ARCs to autographed books to [...]

Just a quickie, as I have to go shovel snow. Again.
Here’s one way to depict my day at work: a mousepath. Today was for numbercrunching.

You can get the mousepath software yourself (Mac/Linux, Windows - by Anatoliy Zenkov and picked up by me here).
Hey, guess what? Having a blizzard does not invalidate global climate change. [...]

My attention has been pulled in a thousand different directions lately, and writing has suffered the most. Not much blogging, very little fiction. Much pondering of fiction though. I seem to have developed some sort of process for long pieces of fiction.

Come up with an idea: a setting, a scene, a person, a phrase.
Write [...]

Pirate loot, even!
One of my favorite writing blogs, Magical Words, is a group effort by several authors. A few I’d read before finding the blog; most were new to me, but I’ve made an effort to get to know all of their fiction better. I like reading this and other author blogs: it helps to [...]

To Amsterdam. Be back in a while.
For your entertainment while you wait, a short fiction contest.
And also, gorgeous old microscope slides.

They Might Be Giants has a new album coming out next month: Here Comes Science, a science themed album for kids, with songs like The Ballad of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space), and Photosynthesis. It’s hard for me to explain here how excited that makes me, since you can’t see me bouncing up and down. [...]

There are a lot of great small online presses out there, doing interesting things in the realm of SF and fantasy. Ideomancer, Strange Horizons, and many more. One, Crossed Genres, is having an Earth Day sale on PDF subscriptions. Today only, $7.50 for a year (12 months).
Peter Beagle has begun a project to write a [...]