jaylake.livejournal.com - 1/20/2009
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New Nebula Award rules — In case you missed them. Possibly the world's most awesome calendar — :: wants :: (Snurched from danjite .) Bluetooth Laser Virtual Keyboard — But where's the clickie? (Thanks to lt260 .) It's the anniversary of the great molasses flood ...
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Real science: Is space-time a grainy hologram?
Variety SF —
Some truly weird physics in Marcus Chown's "Our world may be a giant hologram" at New Scientist. Plus possibly some early experimental evidence of this cosmic weirdness - that space-time comprises of discrete "grains" at microscopic level that can be modeled as holographic projections of some kind of pixels written over the outer surface of the universe!! Grains with dimensions of the order of 10e-16 meters. [via Jay Lake] ...
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[links] Link salad for a winter travel day
jaylake.livejournal.com 12/20/2008 — Cheryl Morgan on genre and literature — Interesting stuff, riffing on debate elsewhere. Arctic temperatures hit record high — Temperatures in the Arctic last fall hit an all-time high more than 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Centigrade) ...
[links] Link salad for a January Saturday
jaylake.livejournal.com 1/20/2009 — Blue Tyson reviews Escapement [ Powell's | Amazon ] The saros cycle — Fascinating unit of time. The things you learn reading Gene Wolfe. Earth, observed — Some truly astonishing orbital photography. (Thanks to ...
[links] Link salad remembers his hat tilted forward
jaylake.livejournal.com 2/11/2009 — Don't forget to put an entry into the new Green [ Amazon ] ARC contest [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ] — And yes, there will be goodies for the person whose nominee wins. Scrivener's Error responds to yesterday's post about backing up ...
Sci-Fi Song #11: Lonesome October Night
scifisongs.blogspot.com 10/31/2008 — Lonesome October Night.mp3 Sci- Fi Song #11 is based on Roger Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October . This was one of the books of the month over at the Sci- Fi and Fantasy Book Club at GoodReads . Thanks to all of the members and ...
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vectoreditors.wordpress.com 4/1/2009 — 1. Voting for the David Gemmell Legend Award closes midnight today, March 31st. It’s free to sign up and vote, so why don’t you?
2. A sad one for the Angel fans: Lorne has died . I’m going to have to figure out which episode to ...
Fox and the Sound
starwarsblog.starwars.com 4/4/2009 —
It introduces all six chapters of the Star Wars saga, but do you know the history of the 20th Century Fox logo and fanfare music that has become inextricably linked to the films’ opening titles? Hollywood Lost and Found gives a thorough ...
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entertheoctopus.wordpress.com 3/13/2009 — My article on vampires for Tor.com
Of Celts and Nameless Cults: The (Irish) Nemedian Chronicles
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“RaceFail and the Sci Fi Ghetto: Why it’s Really All About High School ”
Mike Brotherton: Why Science Fiction ...