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Watch the World End!
The uber-cool LHC now has webcammy goodness online. There's not a LOT to see, since the cameras aren't inside the detectors. Still - it's really cool.
Find it here
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Time to get moving again
Well, it's been about six weeks since I've had the time to write regularly. Between the podcasting of the initial book, the planning I've been doing for the next three books that I'm writing, a calender project I'm involved in (hopefully I can unveil soon), and trying to keep non-work life running smoothly, and writing an insane number of articles ( Read more... ) -
Synopsis hell
So, I've got an editor who wants to take a gander at my work. That means I have to write a synopsis ( Read more... ) -
The podcast cometh!
My new podcast audiobook has just posted at www.jdsawyer.net. After months of pre-recording voices (a process that still isn't done, as I search for the last few perfect voices to round out the large cast of characters), and three days wrestling with the unbearably stupid code in Podpress before finally giving up and finding another statistics ( Read more... ) -
Tor gets religion on publishing's new wave
Tor Books has joined the forward-thinking ranks of Baen Books and the two-steps-forward, one-step-backward stragglers like HarperCollins and started releasing its books on the internet ( Read more... ) -
Try again?
Somebody added me to yahoo messenger this morning, and I was half asleep and clicked "deny" instead of "accept." Someone named "ookagmi" something-or-other. Please try again - boneheaded sleepy maneuvers won't happen again! -
In FLORIDA!??!!?
From the "things that SHOULD be happening in California but are happening in Florida" department...
Condo developers designate complex pool clothing optional. -
Soapboxing: Cultural idiocy
Tolerance is a beautiful thing.
Cosmopolitan diversity is delightful and makes life interesting.
However, voluntarily submitting to a primitive barbaric culture by using plastic surgery to lie about the occupancy history of your genitals, while living in the midst of a world that has no use for such grotesque superstition, is utterly repugnant. -
Pipe, bare feet, bear-men, and bombadils?
So, it turns out that Guillermo del Toro intends to out-geek the rest of us with his production of the Hobbit. He's on record now saying that he will keep Beorn in the first film (which will evidently be JUST the story of Bilbo's journey) and, more shockingly, that he's a fan of Tom Bombadil and is trying to find a way to work TB into the second " ( Read more... ) -
Science Fiction writer's dream
If you've ever written science fiction with interplanetary or interstellar travel, this will be a godsend:
http://www.ajdesigner.com/constantacceleration/cadisplacement.php
All my math checking just got WAY easier.