Psephology
Thanks to the ever-splendid Economist, I discovered a new word this week: psephology, the study of elections, voting patterns and electoral behaviour,…
Read moreThanks to the ever-splendid Economist, I discovered a new word this week: psephology, the study of elections, voting patterns and electoral behaviour,…
Read moreOn Sunday, Kelley and I had friends over for dinner to celebrate them moving in together. To mark the occasion we served…
Read moreI know the weather is about to change when the torture tree, the last holdout, starts to green. Here’s the tree on…
Read moreBusy today, so go read the links for writers post on Sterling: some nifty stuff on what to search for just before…
Read moreOver on Facebook a couple of days ago someone asked me if I had expected “this kind of recognition” (Locus and Hugo…
Read moreThe night before last I stood out on the deck by the ravine. It was sometime around three in the morning. The…
Read moreFrom the New York Times: DIM lighting. Rendezvous-friendly nooks. Muscled bartenders. Pulsating dance music. At first glance, it could be any Saturday…
Read moreI’ve just found out that “It Takes Two” is a Locus Award finalist. I’m in some fine company, including two of my…
Read moreHere’s an egg-shaped home office for the garden, or an emergency living pod. Or, well, something. Pretty nifty. Though not the bouncy…
Read moreBatwoman is getting her own series, yay! Matt Staggs’ piece in Suvudu: DC Comics announced Wednesday that Batwoman will have her own…
Read moreLuc Besson’s latest: (thanks Angélique) Based on Les Aventures extraordinaires d’Adèle Blanc-Sec, by Jacques Tardi. It looks like a great pile o’…
Read moreClarion West, the peoplel who run the fabbest writers’ workshop in the world, is looking for a quarter-time Executive Director. You can…
Read moreOver at Sterling Editing, we have our usual roundup of links for writers. The most interesting, for me, is the BBC Story…
Read more(via eBookNewser) The 3-D option is particularly nifty. I’m thinking what an amazing iPad version I could make of And Now We…
Read moreBusy doing stuff. But I thought you might like a photo of some of my Easter chocolate. Naturally, they no longer look…
Read morephoto: Sotheby’s According to the Guardian: Sotheby’s has announced it is to sell an extremely rare and perfectly conditioned first edition of…
Read moreThe faculty have been announced for the Lambda Literary Foundation’s Emerging LGBT Voices Writing Retreat. And, hey, I’m one of them. Emerging…
Read moreLifted whole from the AussieCon4 website: The Hugo Awards are awards for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy. They…
Read moreMy very first! For “It Takes Two,” which first appeared in Jonathan Strahan’s Eclipse 3. I’m getting this live from Twitter (follow…
Read moreHappy Easter. I grew up Catholic so Easter is all about the chocolate for me. But I know some of you think…
Read moreThe best summation I’ve seen so far of Apple’s iPad is from Sarah Rotman Epps of Forrester Research. (Link via Babbage.) The…
Read moreI read The Economist cover to cover every week. I’m especially enamoured of their Special Reports, particularly Technology Quarterly, so I was…
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