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“Social Media for Writers” with Sarah Goslee, 7-8:30 p.m. Feb. 14, community room, Schlow Centre Region Library, 211 S. Allen St., State College. Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/01/13/2862652/detailsdetails.html#storylink=cpy Short version: Engage, don’t just advertise. Anything else you think I should say?

So I spent the afternoon working on the website. Nothing should have changed from the outside, but the serverguts are all pretty and shiny and clean: updated, backed up, tweaked and twiddled. I don’t think I broke anything, but I trust you to let me know if I did.

Minus the YouTube, of course.

William Gibson: Cities look to me to be our most characteristic technology. We didn’t really get interesting as a species until we became able to do cities—that’s when it all got really diverse, because you can’t do cities without a substrate of other technologies. There’s a mathematics to it—a city can’t get over a certain [...]

But until I come up with something suitable for public dissemination, here, have a fun thing.

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The Emperor sneezed. Even the torrential downpour hadn’t settled the spring pollen. Curse those catilies! Everyone planted them for the vibrant pink blooms, but he was violently allergic. There should be a law. The Emperor looked down at the paper he held. No, ninety decrees was enough, even if he’d forgotten the catily flowers. One [...]

From my email: Media For Rapid Publications Invited Reviews Do you feel scientifically isolated? Do you find yourself sitting on the side-line while others take the field by the nose and lead it? Are you unable to publish a model that summarizes your data and ideas because reviewers label it as being too speculative and [...]

Or two of them, actually. [Edit: three, really.] PSA1: Dumping Swedish fish down your throat is never a good idea. If you are driving at the time, it’s a truly horrid idea. PSA2: Crashing your car into a parked van may in fact dislodge the stuck Swedish fish, but it is not a generally-acceptable alternative [...]

My favorites for the day: John Scalzi’s new fantasy project: “The entire fantasy series is entitled The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, of which the first book is called The Dead City.” Go read the prologue. Really. Bagicalupi and Watts start a shared world anthology, guaranteed to drive you to despair and drinking. Charlie [...]