I'm feeling a furious bitterness after reading this study of how BP destroyed peoples's health and silence popular outrage about the Deepwater oil spill. In my new mental state, even if everyone else forgets, I'll remember. I can, in fact, hold a grudge, it just depends on who I'm targeting with my rage. Compromise is the opposition of ruthlessness ( Read more... )

Boingboing post a fascinating series of photographs about digitizing at the Library of Congress. Gaze upon that 1481 book.

Giant, 22-foot wasp nest found in an abandoned Spanish house. I am now shaking in pure terror. I hate hate wasps but I still want to visit and see this nightmare for reals.

Giant wasp nest

You know what just now occurred to me after months with more books published? I barely ever actually announce my new books out here on the blog. I know why I've done that - I stay away from anything remotely approaching promotion - but it does seem sort of strange to keep the books quiet and let them build by themselves when I publish them ( Read more... )

Current NASA lead says that NASA won't take point in going to the moon. Instead, they're completely focused on hitting asteroids and going to Mars. An asteroid I can comprehend, but Mars still seems like crazy times. But we did hit the Moon fairly recently...

No moon any time soon

I think I have a new addiction and reason to go snooping for epic trailer music. I can put my own books to trailers. Two Steps from Hell, Sons of War suits Vespasian 3 to an extent I might have to write a trailer when I finish.

Did one farm boy really hit a million-in-one shot against the most heavily defended battle station in history? Or was it secretly planned?

Death Star Truther Parody

Although I'm pretty sure I've heard of this before it's still pretty disturbing. Corporations use behavioral science about habits and patterns to predict what people are going to buy and what conditions in their lives will lead them to that. Apart from the amount of information they know about you, which itself is disturbing, it's freaky to see how ( Read more... )

I... I... can't even begin to describe how mind-boggling cool these photographs of star trails from the international space station look. The only thing I can do in response is try to write as much as I possibly can so I can try to describe the sheer amazement.

ISS Star Trails

1. If you could make a single person in all of the US political spectrum disappear without a trace, who would it be ( Read more... )