Everyone’s blogging this, so why don’t I?
What if It’s All Been a Big Fat Lie?
(For those of you who don’t want to go through the NY Times’ free registration – which is worth it, IMO – you can see what everyone else in blogdom is posting about this).
Did I ever blog The Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards? Because it’s a wonderful resource. Especially when you’re wondering, for example What awards the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ever won? (which I am, because we bought Israeli reprint rights for F&SF for the Tenth Dimension.
An off-hand link here, where the author describes the shareware attitude prevalent in the Macintosh world as “a bit spiv-like“, pointed me to this explanation of What a spiv is, and as a bonus also explains what a wide boy is (a term I recall from Marillion lyrics – although I thought David Bowie and Toyah used it too):
“A spiv was typically a flashily dressed man (velvet collars and lurid kipper ties) who made a living by various disreputable dealings, existing by his wits rather than holding down any job. (Another name was wide boy, with wide having the old slang sense of sharp-witted, or skilled in sharp practice.)”
The above is part of a big site called World Wide Words, which adresses such issues as what all those curious slang terms mean and where on earth did they come from.
The infamous 15Meg image of the post September 11th World Trade Center site, aka wtc-photo.jpg, has been found here, or more specifically here (warning – will make your browser throw up and die, after eating up all your virtual memory and slowing your PC to a crippled snail’s crawl – at least if your PC is as puny as mine).
My brother and his wife were photographed at the airport by a news photographer (credited as Oren Agmon) and their photo (very tiny) appears in this Ynet article.
Here’s the image itself – don’t know how long the direct link will last, but I probably can’t legally keep a local copy of it, can I?
