Officials: Fake weapons parts ‘ticking time bomb’ At the Associated Press. Fascinating story. (tagged: military politics counterfeit research ) Wired.com Goes Creative Commons: 50 Great Images That Are Now Yours Thanks, Wired. (tagged: creative commons wired ) To Find Alien Cities, Look for City Lights on Distant Planets at Popular Science (tagged: Science Astronomy ) […]
This showed up on Facebook re: Flickr hiring: You might’ve seen it there, too. Being the nosy SOB that I am, I clicked on the image. First I was wondering: is that really the Flickr dev pod? And sure enough, it is. Or was? I noticed on the user’s profile that he used to work […]
Via B^2: Philip Sandifer is a graduate student in U. Fla’s English program, and keeps a personal creative writing journal called “Pulp Decameron,” where he posts very short stories in the styles of various pulp genres. The stories are released under a Creative Commons license. One story, I am Ready to Serve My Country, is […]
Via Creative Commons: The Wombat Speaks: Mia Wombat speaks about all things CC in a Second Life event. What snagged me was the image in their article: This scene is exactly how I always pictured Hiro’s final Metaverse scene in Snow Crash. currently playing: David “Delta/Beta”
“Fall Down Six Times” is a series of short-shorts by Ran Prieur that are essentially meditations on apocalyptic collapses. Or a “Ridiculous Best Case Scenario”. Most of these have elements that remind me of conversations I’ve had recently with friends about “what we’ll do when the economy collapses.” It’s reassuring that I’m not the only […]
A couple weeks ago, I posted the first 503 words of my story. For anyone interested in another taste (from chapter two): When the call came in, I was flat on my back, floating in a warm, viscous solution. I was defined by relaxation and perfectly content to dwell on the visions of sugared fullerenes […]
Almost two weeks ago, I announced that I’d completed the first draft of the novel I’d been working on over the past year. I had a few folks query me about the download for the complete PDF. To those: Thanks! To everyone else, here’s the first 503 words: The fires in the Port Calvert Asylum […]