My schedule for Anticipation, the Montreal Worldcon:When: Thu 14:00Location: P-513BTitle: Twitter, Facebook, My Space: Social Media and WritingSession ID: 766All Participants: James Strauss, Jenny Rae Rappaport, Mary RobinetteKowal, Walter Jon Williams, John PicacioModerator: Mary Robinette KowalDescription: What’s all the buzz about the new social media? Writingshort-short-short stories on Twitter??? Good grief! Is this networkingor a […]

Some really gorgeous pictures of Krakatoa during its current eruption. With an explosive force 13,000 times the power of the atomic bomb that annihilated Hiroshima, the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa killed more than 36,000 people and radically altered global weather and temperatures for years afterwards. The eruption was so violent and catastrophic that no active […]

Oxford University physicists have created a brand new form of matter. Scientists claim to have created a form of aluminum that’s nearly transparent to extreme ultraviolet radiation and which is a new state of matter. It’s an idea straight out of science fiction, featured in the movie “Star Trek IV.” (Cuz there’s nothing like Trek […]

Ish tagged me with the 15 Books meme, in which— quickly, and without giving it a lot of thought— you write down the top 15 books that will always stay with you. I’d like to start another meme, in which you actually think about this stuff before hurling a list before the public. Here’s the […]