Archive for March, 2009
Microsoft shutting down Encarta, why not release it under Creative Commons?
March 31st 2009 at 7:41 am
I remember Encarta. When I purchased my first ever new computer, a $1,600 486 processor-powered Tandy (the last Tandy/Radio Shack branded computer they built, I think), it came with Microsoft Encarta (and Tandy’s horrible user interface bolted on top of Windows 3.1, which I promptly deleted).
Encarta was a handful of disks full of the excitement [...]
Algae for fuel
March 30th 2009 at 12:50 pm
I’m not exactly fond of corn or sugar cane for fuel. Burning your food supplies does seem to be somewhat dangerous.
But creating giant algae pools and using algae sources for biodiesel is pretty nifty. Right now that costs upwards of $5.76/gallon, so it looked like something that would get snapped up when oil prices got [...]
Hast thou pitched the Jabberwock?
March 30th 2009 at 10:34 am
MediaBistro features info on pitching my agent Joshua Bilmes:
Eddie Schneider (left) and Joshua Bilmes are the stars of this week’s installment of mediabistro.com’s “Pitching an Agent” series, and though they claim JABberwocky is the #1 agency for fantasy and science-fiction authors (with a client base that includes Charlaine Harris, Elizabeth Moon, Brandon Sanderson, Tobias S. [...]
Wave energy harvester
March 30th 2009 at 10:21 am
So I was talking at length at a reading at Millenicon about the ocean wave harvester. It takes the kinetic energy of waves to convert them into electricity.
And it’s a really simple device.
It’s like a paperclip, once you see it you get it, and you could properly make one of these yourself.
Worldchanging has a graphic:
I [...]
It’s not just you, it’s everyone
March 25th 2009 at 3:55 pm
Last night I watched Bruce Springsteen on the Daily Show talk about going out to play songs he was passionate about during the Bush years and being soundly booed *by the very people who loved his work enough to pay to come to listen to him.*
It struck me as interesting that even at the peak [...]
[iPhone shots] ducky ducky ducks
March 24th 2009 at 12:39 pm
Migrating ducks out near the pond on my morning walk. They were sleeping and tired, so they didn’t take off running and quacking until I got within a couple feet.
One of them (hidden in the bushes on the left further up in this shot), after I took this shot and walked down the path a [...]
I’m an Uber-Geek!
March 24th 2009 at 12:32 pm
Tech Republic, a blog I follow occasionally (it’s on my ‘once-a-week refresh on RSS feed or the firehose of content sometimes overwhelms me) surprised the heck out of me today by featuring me as one of their ‘50 uber-geeks worth following on Twitter.’
All those years of being uncool and unhip are finally paying off, damnit!
Excuse [...]
For whom do we write
March 24th 2009 at 12:22 pm
Aidan Moher has an interesting blog post about writing:
…artists begin with a passion and curiousity for a medium, about what would happen if they applied their own touch to it. As soon as one becomes a professional, though, other factors enter the picture that determine the course of the artist and a modicum of freedom [...]
SF Signal Top Ten blog
March 24th 2009 at 9:36 am
SF Signal was nice enough to include me in a list of top ten SF/F author blogs for Blogs.com.
Thanks guys!
Of course, now I feel the pressure to say something interesting or I let all these new readers down…
…yeah, about that.
