Posts under ‘Fun stuff’

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 [...]

Shadow Unit season 2 starts tonight!
You missed the first season of this SF crime show? There’s still time - you can catch the full first season at the above link. It’s worth your time.
Skeptical? With a staff like this?
Executive Producer:
Emma Bull
Co-Executive Producer:
Elizabeth Bear
Producer:
Sarah Monette
Producer:
Will Shetterly
Art Director:
Amanda Downum
Technical Director:
Stephen Shipman

Self-rescuing princess from ThinkGeek.

Obama shirt from Chris Bishop.
They don’t go together so well, but every so often even the most competent princess needs a little bit of help, right?