A Question of Import

January 13, 2010

Something I always wanted to know:Is the “wang dang doodle” the same as the “do wah diddy?”

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Walter’s First Contest

January 12, 2010

I’ve never run a contest before, but now that This Is Not a Game has appeared in paperback, I find myself in a generous mood. As in years past, this year we produced a calendar for 2010, in this case featuring photos taken by me in Turkey and in France, including this one of the […]

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The Praise is Endless as the Sea

January 12, 2010

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 […]

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Hardly Twee At All

January 11, 2010

The cleverest headline ever. [via Janice Gelb]

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On The Beach

January 11, 2010

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.]

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Your Brilliant Writing Career Awaits!

January 8, 2010

Amazingly, applications for Taos Toolbox are still open! This means you can still have that brilliant writing career you’ve been dreaming about! All you have to do is go to the Taos Toolbox web site, and follow the instructions thereon! If you’re accepted, you’ll join me and Nancy Kress and Carrie Vaughn in Taos next […]

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News Hour

January 8, 2010

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 […]

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Getting Elfy-Welfy With It

January 7, 2010

What to Icelanders do during those long winter nights? Elves, apparently. [thanks to julien]

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Grand Masters

January 5, 2010

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, […]

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Go hang a salami; I’m a lasagna hog!

January 2, 2010

Today is National Palindrome Day.

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