drupagliassotti @ May 30, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Outside Articles & Commentary In roughly chronological order. — PetitionSpot: Against LJ censorship of fanfic and similar communities. May 30 — FandomTossed: Following the controversy. May 30 — FandomWank Commentary May 30 — Firefox News:The Purity Police and Fanfic (Leva Cygnet) May 30 — The Diggnation Podcast: Brief mention. May 30 — Warren Ellis: Blog [...]
drupagliassotti @ May 29, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I read this article on storing data in bacteria DNA a few minutes ago and realized there’s a germ, no pun intended, of a story idea there for this anthology on mundane SF. If scientists began to aggressively research the storage of data in bacteria, animal, and human, DNA, and replicated across generations, in what [...]
drupagliassotti @ May 23, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Galvanics submitted to yet another pro zine….
drupagliassotti @ May 22, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Got my contract, got my contract! La la la! You could be reading Clockwork Heart next February!
drupagliassotti @ May 22, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit, and The Era of Predatory Lenders by James D. Scurlock should go on your reading list if you have any debt or are considering taking on any debt. Chapter 6, on debt-collection tactics, is particularly informative. Interesting tidbits include “The statute of limitations for most debts is only seven [...]
drupagliassotti @ May 21, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Firstly, secondly, thirdly, and so forth should be banned from the language. First, second, and third are perfectly good adverbs in their own right. Serial commas are another issue, entirely.
drupagliassotti @ May 21, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Not one for the pre-teen kiddies or the faint of heart. Lest you make the mistake of thinking it’s a kid’s movie.
drupagliassotti @ May 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Horror die-hards like Ramage are confident that whatever the whims of the market, the genre will endure. Horror fans, he said, are looking for two things: “B and B: blood and boobs.” — Ventura County Star, 5/19/07. Greeeaaaat. Because, you know, some of the scariest movies I’ve watched have had so many boobs flashing on [...]
drupagliassotti @ May 18, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey is disturbing, often distasteful (e.g., sniffing soiled menstrual pads, incestuous rape), and rather creative. It moves Palahniuk pretty deeply into speculative fiction/sci-fi territory, although you won’t realize that’s where it’s going from the beginning. I haven’t read many of his books — just Fight Club and Haunted before [...]
drupagliassotti @ May 16, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Finished Hofstadter’s book I am a Strange Loop, although I confess to only skimming over some of the more deeply mathematical bits about Godel’s theorem. As I thought, I was challenged and intrigued but not entirely convinced; I need to let the ideas bounce around a little. Or maybe a lot. One thing his discussion [...]