I'm a guest at the seventy-millionth* Philcon Science Fiction Convention.

My schedule is:Fri 9:00 PM in Plaza III (1 hour ( Read more... )

The guy who wrote about the excesses of 1980s Wall Street in Liar's Poker now writes about the causes of the current financial meltdown in "The End".

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We interrupt your regularly scheduled election to bring you news of science. Be sure to read the comments section at the end for further discussion.

Twenty years ago, give or take a week, I met the woman who is now my wife. I remember it vividly - she was in the doorway of a dorm room, wearing a tee-shirt and jeans, and was introduced to me by someone I was with - but she doesn't recall meeting me again until a year later. This makes sense, I suppose; other than my height, I'm not ( Read more... )

Happy 50th Anniversary, NASA!

Test your skills to see if you can be an image analyst for Australian intelligence.

No, I'm not making that up.

Peter Jackson (of Lord of the Rings fame) is making a film that's set and partially shot in my hometown.

Yes, I'm always the last to notice these things.

Mark is out at a conference, um, conferring, so I'll take his usual place and mention that Afterlife Blues has been updated.

The folding green in my wallet makes me a trillionaire four times over in Zimbabwe's currency, according to CNN. The official Zimbabwean inflation rate is 2.2 million percent, so in a short time I'll be a quadillionaire or Zimbabwe will have been purchased by South Africa using the spare change they found in the couch.

It is hard to overstate the awesomeness that is Joss Whedon's new Internet-only project Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. It stars Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion, involves goofy mad science and singing, and is free.

Go thou and watch.