New from Night Shade Books
By mcd on July 03rd, 2008 at 10:00am ()Via SFScope: Night Shade Books has published Walter Jon Williams’ Implied Spaces, with bonus downloads. Also new in their catalog is Greg Egan’s Incandescence.
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Glass Explained
By mcd on July 01st, 2008 at 10:06pm ()Via GeekPress: LiveScience explains the bizarre properties of glass that make its traffic jam of atoms neither a liquid nor a solid.
In the 1950s, Sir Charles Frank in the Physics Department at Bristol suggested that the arrangement of the “jam” should form what is known as an icosahedron, but at the time he was unable to prove it.
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I am not a food blogger
By mcd on June 26th, 2008 at 04:14pm ()I am not a food blogger; I just owe someone a recipe. I’m including a bonus recipe as well:
- Fig Anchoiade: You can’t go wrong with anchovies.
- Authentic biscotti: Who knew you could make cookies with olive oil?
Usually I prefer to use cookbooks, but I found both of these at RecipeZaar.
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Roll Your Own Magazine
By mcd on June 19th, 2008 at 03:07pm ()Via a mailing list: MagCloud is a new print-on-demand magazine publisher. You can browse magazines during the beta or beg for a publisher account.
MagCloud enables you to publish your own magazines. All you have to do is upload a PDF and we’ll take care of the rest: printing, mailing, subscription management, and more.
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Scam of the Week
By mcd on June 17th, 2008 at 05:39pm ()Via a mailing list: Victoria Strauss debunks a fake SFWA contest.
I can only imagine the number of hopeful writers who will be enticed by the SFWA name, not to mention the promise of enormous prizes plus a commercial publishing credit. Once again, however: this contest is a fake.
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The Popcorn Happening
By mcd on June 13th, 2008 at 02:13pm ()SciFi.com reports about the light and fluffy B-movie content of M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening, which opens today:
“One of the things that I said to everybody—the cast and crew—I said, ‘This is a B movie,’” Shyamalan said in a press conference in New York on June 9. “Let’s get ourselves straight here. This is just a great B movie. We’re making the best B movie we can here. That’s our job. We’re making a B movie.
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Pyr Expands
By mcd on June 05th, 2008 at 12:59pm ()SFScope reports that Pyr Books is expanding its line to about 30 books a year.
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