On 6 May 2o1o, the Flash Crash hit at 2:45pm and the stock market lost 1000 points in only a few minutes, spurred by frantic sell orders from automated trading systems. Because we haven’t seen anything as radical as the Flash Crash before or since, it’s been assumed that this sort of thing is fairly […]

Some items concerning Taos Toolbox: First, there are still a few places available in the science fiction and fantasy master class taught by Nancy Kress, Daniel Abraham, and myself.  If you think you might want to write this sort of thing professionally, then do the professional thing and apply! Toolbox grad Sean Craven is saying […]

  Want to buy your own robot fighting machine?  iRobot (a corporate name that is bound to interest the Asimov estate) will sell you the 710 Warrior for a mere . . . well, I don’t actually know the price. The Warrior 710 is a 450-pound tracked robot that is built for versatility and moving […]

Enjoyed the Super Bowl halftime show, did you?  Bet you didn’t know you were WORSHIPING THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS! According to this guy anyway.  He starts with the fact that one of Madonna’s dancers had angel wings and a harp, and goes right to the obvious conclusion that this is totally Satanic— because Lucifer was […]