Blog Profile / Making Light
| URL : | http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Genres / Sci Fi | |
| Posts on Regator: | 1256 | |
| Posts / Week: | 4.7 | |
| Archived Since: | March 23, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Star Trek Into Obscurity SPOILERS
If you absolutely have to talk about the herd of laser unicorns that so unexpectedly appear at the climax of...
Crowdsourcing doesn't inoculate against corruption
I really don't want to get back into the business of being a big critic of Wikipedia, a site I...
Civilization and barbarism, side by side in San Jose
Urban light rail -- and a construction site that's been allowed to eliminate a whole block's sidewalk, not even...
Steak Pie
This recipe is from the intensely talented fantasy author Stacia Kane, and is reprinted here with her permission. Stacia is...
Ray Harryhausen
Ray Harryhausen died today at the age of 92. I can't stress enough how much a part of my life...
Us, interviewed
The latest Locus features an interview with us. It's not online--the contents of the printed magazine and their web...
Iron Person Three SPOILERS
This is a thread for SPOILERS concerning the recent film release. No need for ROT-13 or SPOILER Alerts inside here,...
Dowsing For Dynamite
If you're going to have security theater, you need props. Allow me to introduce Mr. James McCormick, sentenced yesterday in...
Now It Belongs To The Outlook
It's the end of an era for the famous (and at times infamous) Hotmail service. Hotmail pioneered Web-based email...
North Country Computing
North Country Computing Terms Log On: Making the wood stove hotter Log Off: Don't add any more wood Monitor: Keeping...
Dysfunctional Families: Shooting and Shouting
I've been thinking about the ways people fight for a long time. It's a "sticky" subject for me: something that...
Majuscule Ludi
The Arthur C. Clarke Award is, as its site says, the most prestigious award for science fiction published in Britain....
Fanfic ideas
I don’t have the gene or mental quirk or whatever it is necessary for writing fanfic. Seanan McGuire even bit...
Open Thread 183
Y'know The Bonnie Earl O' Moray, the guy who gave us Mondegreens? The question was, "Ye Hielands and ye Lowlands,...
Flat Joint
From today's Manchester Union Leader comes this story: Epsom man says he was taken for a $2,600 ride at carnival...
“The fate of the free multiverse — in your hands!”
I am flabbergasted that, with a less than a week to go in the Starstruck: Harry Palmer Kickstarter, it’s still...
Sack posset
I've recently been asked about posset recipes. This one, for a Sack Posset, is from The Closet of the Eminently...
Explosions at the Boston Marathon
Explosions at the Boston Marathon Multiple outlets and law enforcement officials are reporting what a horrific looking scene makes clear:...
Dickens, Dostoevsky, and a Whole Lot More
I rarely do the "mutely pointing at another article on the web" kind of blog post, mostly reserving that kind...
Want to Commit A Crime Against Government?
Perhaps you have without knowing it. Did you ever sing, sotto voce, "O say can you see?" whilst walking through...