A few days ago, all Twitter was aglow with the information that Harlan Ellison had died.Last night, I received email that Normal Spinrad had died during an operation.As it happens, Harlan is very much alive, and Norman survived his operation perfectly well.So there seems to be a “prankster” working the science fiction social networks. I […]

Via Gio, the winner of the 19th Century Darwin Awards.

Me and my friend here, Iron Chef Walter, are off to Taos for a week. My appearances are likely to be intermittent for the next seven days or so. In fact I make not make it back if I’m hanging out with this guy. As you can see, he can really put it away.

It’s been a week since Wall Street’s flash crash, when runamuck automated selling wiped out a tenth of my retirement fund— and, somewhat less importantly, a trillion dollars of assets worldwide. The stocks have come back, but what I find interesting is that no one’s actually found what triggered the manic selling. They seem to […]