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• Speculative fiction markets - Mary Soon Lee 28 Aug 2008
  Mary Soon Lee’s list of speculative fiction markets has been around for quite a few years and I decided to visit to see if it was still updated. Last update was earlier this year, but that’s bette. […]
• Fun video: Font Conference 28 Aug 2008
  Thanks to Rachel Starr Thomson for suggesting this link: I admit it. I’m a font geek. ShareThis
• From The Side Of The Ridgeway 28 Aug 2008
  The Ridgeway is Britain’s oldest known road: a trackway running eighty-odd miles across the south of England, curving over the tops of hills from the Ivinghoe Beacon to Avebury in the west. Last wee. […]
• The Comparative Literature of Massive Construction Sites 27 Aug 2008
  [Image: An etching by Daniel Stojkovich called Tower of Babel 2, exhibited as part of Top Arts 2007 at the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia].I was clicking around on a local university's engine. […]
• New SF Ideas from Rudy Rucker 26 Aug 2008
  Rudy Rucker, always one of the most original minds in SF, author of Software, Postsingular, and the astonishing The Lifebox, the Seashell and the Soul, responds to my Singularity post not with a grump. […]
• New Tab Concepts 25 Aug 2008
  The user experience for opening up a new tab in Firefox is somewhat lacking: you are greeted by an intimidating, blank canvas with no hint of what to do. Could Firefox be doing something better with i. […]
• Blood Kisses 25 Aug 2008
  To town yesterday, to a screening at Frightfest of Let The Right One In, the film version of the bestselling Swedish vampire novel, adapted for the screen by its author, John Ajivide Lindqvist. Set in. […]
• Nuclear Winter in Chernobyl | Stuck In Customs 25 Aug 2008
  
• DJ Spooky v. Cory Doctorow: a CBLDF mashup! video 25 Aug 2008
  Here, for your enjoyment and edification, the first sixty minutes of Thursday night’s CBLDF fundraiser with DJ Spooky and Cory Doctorow, in seven bite-size parts. [Lots of video after the jump]
• Video: Angus Abranson Interview (Dr. Who RPG) 24 Aug 2008