Online version of Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman. This is a wonderfully dark and twisted retelling of a classic story. It seems to be available all over the place — I first read it in a collection but it’s apparently here by permission.
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
White Ninja has a strip featuring a kiwi.
I really don’t know what these guys do. But every time you reload their site, you get a new (ugly) website advertising some non-existent service. Weird, but funny.
Well, here it is. Thanks to Theron Parlin I’m not ashamed to look at this blog any more. So everyone else can too!
Soon (?) to come:
some new reviews
a review category with extra info (recommended, where you’ll find it, etc)
some cleverer content management (transient posts shorter, reviews longer, etc)
This CNN report describes a recent variant of the Sokal Social Text hoax. This time, the accepted paper was auto-generated by a pseudo-scientific gibberish engine.
The conference organisers accepted the paper on a “non-reviewed” basis — the reviewers didn’t get their review in on time, but the paper was accepted anyway.
Despite the results by Ken Thompson, [...]
Sam Hughes explains in minute detail how to destroy the Earth. His whole site is worth a look, it’s more or less a blog but better organised. And clever.
Creating a microscopic black hole is tricky, since one needs a reasonable amount of neutronium, but may possibly be achievable by jamming large numbers of [...]
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
UC Berkely have a working prototype exoskeleton. Don’t go ape yet, it’s strictly human-scale, legs only, and used for carrying a heavy backpack. But it’s working, which is more than can be said for the competition… so far…
These guys have a bunch of other cool stuff, including a wheelbarrow with legs, a robotic pogo stick [...]
Orson Scott Card has some strong words on the subject of fan fiction. I respect this guy a lot, and he’s got a point.
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Clocky is an alarm clock that hides from you while you’re sleeping, so you can’t just turn hit snooze when it goes off … you have to look for it first!
Short stories by a true master of the form. When Borges became blind, he was forced to compose his works in his head, turning them over and over until his constant attention wore them smooth like river stones. The result is an artificial but wholly beautiful style, in which no word is missing that should [...]