This Is Not a Game has grown up, into a mass-market paperback! (Yeah, okay, that doesn’t make sense, but bear with me.) Probably on that account, there have been a lot of reviews appearing in the last few weeks, so I’m going to take a few moments to point to them with pride.From Hornswoggler:And if […]

The Dutch artist Theo Jansen has been building odd wind-powered beach creatures for years now, intending that eventually they will live and roam in herds, independent of their human creators. Here’s a video of Jansen explaining the method behind his madness. [via Bob Norton.]

Just some news tidbits that flew my way. #1. Why economists are skinflints. In recent research, University of Washington economists Yoram Bauman and Elaina Rose found that economics majors were less likely to donate money to charity than students who majored in other fields. After majors in other fields took an introductory economics course, their […]

A video featuring all the Grand Masters of the Science Fiction Writers of America (through 2000, anyway). The video features voices that the years have stilled. I got chills. There’s a kind of prequel to this video featuring Jack Williamson, which for some reason is not available for embedding in such untrustworthy sites as this, […]