January 2012
Diet, nutrient levels linked to cognitive ability,... →
New research has found that elderly people with higher levels of several vitamins and omega 3 fatty acids in their blood had better performance on mental acuity tests and less of the brain shrinkage…
Jan 2nd
December 2011
Load DRM-free media on the Kindle Fire with Miro -... →
Dec 31st
Ten plotlines you'll find in science fiction -... →
Dec 28th
The Big Mistake of Author Websites and Blogs |... →
Dec 25th
Beyond Black Friday » Blog Archive » Which eBooks... →
Dec 23rd
Dwolla →
Dec 19th
Get Dispensing Justice - NovaGenesisWiki →
Dec 17th
The Absent-Minded Muse: Lessons learned while... →
Dec 13th
ARTICLE: A Self-Publishing Step-By-Step Checklist... →
Dec 11th
Guest Post by Red Tash: Should You Write Your... →
Dec 9th
Chrysalis - Informal Checklist for Author Web... →
Dec 7th
The Deepening Paradox — KarlSchroeder.com →
Dec 5th
Paul Salvette in Bangkok: Smashwords Formatting... →
Dec 1st
November 2011
My second book comes out today. Here's what I've... →
Nov 28th
Overcoming Bias : Science Fiction Is Far →
Nov 26th
48 Other Things We Love About Doctor Who | SFX →
Nov 24th
New data confirms: Neutrinos are still traveling... →
Nov 22nd
Unshelved by Gene Ambaum and Bill Barnes →
Review of Terry Pratchett’s novel Going Postal.
Nov 20th
September 2011
Great superhero / comic book fiction -- Amazon.com →
Sep 24th
Neutrino experiment sees them apparently moving... →
Sep 23rd
‘Inexhaustible’ source of hydrogen may be unlocked... →
Sep 21st
Why We Love Suspending Our Disbelief →
Sep 12th
The Pop vs. Soda Page →
Using the World Wide Web to gather and process data from across English-speaking North America, I intend to plot the regional variations in the use of the terms “Pop” and “Soda” to describe…
Sep 10th
Online Book Publishing Review 2011 | Best... →
Sep 8th
Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs - Less Wrong →
Sep 5th
Futuristic Urban Mega-Structures Update -- Dark... →
Gigantic mega-projects from recent years that will awe and inspire you (even if they’ll never be built) / “A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier.” —Mies Van de Rohe,…
Sep 3rd
Video Killed the Radio Star - Wikipedia →
Sep 1st
August 2011
A low-cost, low-power DIY cellular data network |... →
Aug 30th
Extension:InterwikiIntegration - MediaWiki →
Aug 28th
MiFiWriters - Michigan Speculative Fiction →
Aug 25th
An Incomplete Guide to POD Publishers - Publisher... →
A head to head comparison of major Print On Demand publishers.
Aug 23rd
1DollarScan →
Aug 21st
Digital Publishing for the 21st Century | Digital... →
Aug 19th
Amazon Cracks Down on Some E-Book 'Publishers' -... →
Aug 16th
Some Thoughts on Five Recently-Published Short... →
One of the dullest exercises in writing about literature, or really any sort of discussion, is to try to codify the “state” of something, whether it be a genre, a literary practice or product (which…
Aug 14th
LyX – The Document Processor || lyx.org →
LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG). / LyX combines the power and…
Aug 12th
Creative ways to solve usability problems →
Design problems and design solutions / There is no shortage of people willing to pass judgement on what they see as the weaknesses of a user interface. But it takes more than design opinions to make…
Aug 10th
Teaching Fantasy II: In Which I Knowingly Assign... →
Aug 8th
The Definitive History of Science Fiction and... →
Aug 6th
Manuscript Monday joins the Friday Pitch --... →
Worth checking out if you’ve got a manuscript in your pocket: Pan Macmillan has opened its doors to submissions with Manuscript Monday, an initiative very similar to Allen and Unwin’s…
Aug 5th
Reinhart And Rogoff: The Most Dangerous Economists... →
Aug 3rd
July 2011
The Mechanic Muse - The Jargon of the Novel,... →
Now in the 21st century, with sophisticated text-crunching tools at our disposal, it is possible to put Bridgman’s theory to the test. Has a vernacular style become the standard for the typical…
Jul 30th
Replacing Tables with CSS for Page Layout →
This is one in the occasional series about design and layout, this time covering the replacement of tables with CSS. I must confess that I resisted doing this for a long time and now with the zeal of…
Jul 29th
The downside of being Captain America (and 8 other... →
Jul 25th
Dwarf Fortress: "perhaps the most complex video... →
In the July 24, 2011 edition of the New York Times Magazine, Jonah Weiner profiled Tarn and Zach Adams, the brothers who created the game Dwarf Fortress, which is kind of like a much geekier, vastly…
Jul 23rd
Access geo-restricted sites from anywhere in the... →
Geographically restricted web services turn up at a seemingly alarming rate. For example, if you are outside of the US you cannot watch programming from Hulu, listen to Pandora or stream Netflix, to…
Jul 21st
Red Rook Progress Report #2 →
Originally published at fritz freiheit.com blog. You can comment here or there. Just passed over the half-way point of 40,000 words on the Red Rook rough draft yesterday. I’ve managed to…
Jul 21st
International flavors of Space Opera. Looking for... →
Jul 17th
Check out the ASCII diagram editor →
Originally published at fritz freiheit.com blog. You can comment here or there. Check out the ASCII diagram editor at http://www.asciiflow.com/ +-------------------------------+ |...
Jul 17th
App developers withdraw from US as patent fears... →
App developers are withdrawing their products for sale from the US versions of Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Market for fear of being sued by companies which own software patents - just as a…
Jul 16th