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Monthly Archives: October 2009

Contest

Monday, October 26, 2009

My friend and Brain Harvest co-editor Eden is in Fantasy magazine’s final three flash-fiction Halloween stories. Readers get to pick the best, and Eden’s Empire Builder is neck and neck with some other guy’s story. You could make a difference by voting here.

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Excerpt from best LSH post ever

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Confucius, the paragon of Chinese wisdom, said: There is no difference between virtue and right living. He must have been on to something, because two thousand years later The Honeydogs said: Living right is easy. What goes wrong, you’re causing it. [ed: Dean pointed out this quote is actually from Son Volt.] So the wise [...]

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An experiment in modern publishing

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Cory Doctorow is such a phenomenon that I don’t even know how to hyperlink him – sci fi writer, editor/founder of Boing Boing, intellectual property reformist. Most pertinent to my own life, he was a teacher at Clarion West 2008, which perhaps you know. More pertinent than that, he’s the reason I went there. I’m [...]

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A global perspective on stupidity

Sunday, October 18, 2009

The response to Ardi’s unearthing was not surprising. According to surveys, barely a third of Egyptian adults have ever heard of Charles Darwin and just 8% think there is any evidence to back his famous theory. Teachers, who might be expected to know better, seem equally sceptical. In a survey of nine Egyptian state schools, [...]

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The King

Sunday, October 18, 2009

I’ve never kissed a bat I’ve never kissed a goose But I could shake a chicken in the middle of the roost.

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Bits

Monday, October 12, 2009

I used to have a routine where I’d go to Angeno’s a few times a week and eat pizza and read a book. This had its hayday in the mid-nineties, when I played a lot of basketball and worked out like a man possessed and could afford (both fiscally and physically) to eat a lot [...]

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Very Strong Statements

Friday, October 9, 2009

First, and unrelatedly, Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. This makes me feel weird. Thorbjoern Jagland, one of the Nobel Committe and possessor of a very fine name, said: “Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future,” which [...]

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