February 2012
3 posts
“You can choose to keep working like those scouts did and go on gut instinct...”
– Lessons from Moneyball: don’t get left behind - (37signals)
“No one ever woke up and said, “Gosh, I wish there was a way I could get an...”
– Cory Doctorow
January 2012
2 posts
“The odds of surviving that refrigerator — from a lot of scientists — are about...”
– George Lucas
“Cupcakes are for people who can’t handle reality.”
– Charlie Brooker
December 2011
2 posts
“When you are frayed and spent and you have given it your all, the last thing you...”
– Danny McNamara
November 2011
10 posts
“There are two ways to build a successful company. One is to work very, very hard...”
– Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think - Steven Levy interviews Bezos for Wired (via curiositycounts)
“Last, nerds are more powerful than we know.”
– Ben Goldacre
“Deciding to write a novel is like visiting an obscure, half-forgotten and...”
– Edward Docx
Enormous space tunnel will test ion engines →
Jacob Aron, technology reporter
(Image: DLR)
Aircraft designers test their creations in a wind tunnel and now spacecraft designers can do the same in a “space tunnel”. Researchers at the …
October 2011
7 posts
“An upcoming Congressional report suggests that NASA satellites have been hacked...”
– NASA confirms one of its satellites was probably hacked
“…true sci-fi still has an engaging open-ended, blue-sky anything’s...”
– WSJ.com
“The whole thing is secondrate, and the art of literature is diminished by such...”
– Christopher Priest on the Booker prize
“All I know, is that, throughout my life, deciding to read has made that life...”
– Merlin Mann
An Interactive Guide to NPR's List of Top 100... →
Last week’s Flowchart for Navigating NPR’s Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books made quite a splash around the Internet. Thanks to everyone who shared it! Some of the feedback we…
Hotels →
September 2011
28 posts
BBC iPlayer now available in Australia (sort of) -... →
BBC launches global iPlayer in Australia, but there’s no global Licence Fee
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 By Nick Ross
BBC’s iPlayer has launched in Australia. Usually the service…
“Maybe the editor who bought your story was drunk when she read it.”
– Wait, you’re not a real writer at all! | Brain Hacks for Writers | Futurismic
Wikipedia will eat itself →
The disambiguation article on Wikipedia requires disambiguation.
Neutrinos →
“There will be all sorts of science fiction writers who will give their own...”
– Antonio Ereditato
“…it’s far more likely that there is an error in the data. So let me...”
– Professor Jim Al-Khalili
“In the old days of Faber (1969 – 1984), publication day was always marked by a...”
– Christopher Priest
“One of the attractive contradictions of good science fiction is that its...”
– William Gibson: beyond cyberspace | Books | The Guardian
Tricia Sullivan–Kid Approved SF →
Tricia Sullivan is the author of sf novels such as multiple award nominated Maul and Lightborn. She lives in England with her partner and three children.
Finding SF for younger readers can be…
Useful Node.js Tools, Tutorials And Resources -... →
Lots of links to articles
“You’ve done some magazine work, do you ever think about writing a nonfiction...”
– Neal Stephenson Talks About Video Games, The Metaverse, And His New Book, REAMDE - Forbes
William Shatner on Why Star Trek is Better Than... →
Shared by James Shatner (a) Sounds bitter (b) Seems to miss the entire point of Star Wars
George Lucas must be rolling over in his gold-lined recliner…
Via a blog post on SF Signal
“What if you can use the modern world to demonstrate the value of the labour that...”
– Making things, and the Labour Theory of Value | smithery
“The only problem with writing software for iOS (the term for the operating...”
– iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows 8? A coder’s guide | Technology | guardian.co.uk
My Name Is Me | Supporting your freedom to choose... →
“What are we protecting, if the protection itself means we become, in some small...”
– Ben Hammersley
“The speeches given after the London riots, about closing social networks down in...”
– Ben Hammersley
Family Decals →
Bootstrap, from Twitter →
Shiny
“David Fury, scriptwriter for Lost, recalled a memorable moment of liaison with...”
– Ansible 290, September 2011
