There’s a cottage industry out there for various random plot/name/whatever generators out there on the interweb. Want a plot? A title? How’s bout a name for one of your characters? Maybe you need the whole story? Working on a TV series or a movie, you can get your own random Read more…
What do you get when you cross muppets with Quentin Tarantino? My favorite parts? Bunsen Honeydew, and the Fraggle Rock characters in the background.
I added a new little feature to the blog here. In the lower right there’s now a widget that’s keeping track of writing posts I flag on RSS feeds I’m subscribing to with Google Reader. Google Reader not only lets you share items from a feed on their own public Read more…
Well, predictably, there’s a thread on Whateveresque (not to be confused with Whatever) that delves into the Doctrow/Le Guin mess in all its retarded glory, and does so in flametastic eloquence I couldn’t even begin to match. . .
Sometimes you come across news that so twisted in recursive levels of self-parody that you cannot even express an opinion on it, you just have to sit back and say, “gee that’s f__ked up.” Case in point, this series of events, the latest of which I found thanks to a Read more…
Here’s a tip, if you can’t be bothered to write your own query letter, what makes you think your writing is salable? Writing a query is writing, this is the skill you are attempting to sell. If you can’t sell your skill at writing by writing something, that should tell Read more…
You all might know Whatever, John Scalzi’s Blog, one of the 800 pound gorillas of the SF blogosphere. It’s the kind of place where just posting a comment will drive your own blog traffic up just from internet backwash. Unpopular it is not. So presume Mr. Scalzi should take umbrage Read more…
I posted earlier about how we needed new models for an Intellectual Property economy. On John Scalzi’s Whatever Blog there’s a thread that goes into the specifics of an existing rental model that seems to work. I also had some thoughts about the economy of Second-Life and MMORPG’s in general, Read more…
I have just been the recipient of the strangest spam I have ever gotten. No Nigerians involved, no performance enhancing drugs and (thank god) no goatse double-penetration felch hentai. No this spam was obviously a labor of love by a single individual who has absolutely the wrong idea about the Read more…