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This year's Scifi Contest

I've received a couple of emails from folks who wanted to know when this year's contest would be announced. Shortly, folks. Meanwhile, get going with your story. If I may, I'd suggest mulling over the story idea, setting, characters, tone,...

Note to the so-called Intelligent Designer

The divine architect of runny noses, The wizard of ooze, of two stinky hoses, You made every man woman a misfit With appendages and stomach full of shit. Sexy theater in a messy sewer, Shame on you unintelligent designer! Harris,...

Larry Page on how to change the world

at Fortune Magazine. [via yc.news]...

What OLPC now needs

is a good dose of the idealism that started it. And, it has now got it in full measure! As most of the readers know, I am enthusiastic about the OLPC (and have obtained one via G1G1). Slapping Windows on...

Book podcasts

Two book podcasts I listen to regularly. CBC Writers & Company Eleanor Wachtel is probably the finest interviewer of writers out there. Give a listen to her recent interviews. In one of the episodes, Orhan Pamuk is interviewed and what...

W H Auden

Tommy did as his mother told him Till his soul had split: One half thought of angels And the other half of shit. One of his short poems from 'As I walked Out One Evening'. Beautifully rhymed, talking of shit...

A simple Firefox Tip

Press the 'F11' key to toggle to fullscreen mode. Works for IE too. [More]...

Ursula K. Le Guin's Interview

She is one of the writers I admire for her uncompromising and thoroughly researched exploration of possibilities - especially of race, gender and political philosophies. Ursula Le Guin's novel The Dispossessed has in many ways clarified my personal questions...

Fearful symmetry

The Tiger is the poem where the immortal line 'fearful symmetry' appears. It is a wonderful and famous poem by William Blake ( 1757-1827) from Songs of Innocence and of Experience that talks about Evolution without talking about Evolution. Blake...

Kafkaesque

NY Times publishes a fictional account of a fictional account assuring us that it's a real account. Kafkaesque? Whatever. The man was beyond bizarre and certainly a brain shattering phenomenon; he reached into the human mind like those tentacles we...

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