Thursday, October 31, 2024

Publishing Contract Horrors

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Happy Halloween! Cory Doctorow on the worsening and non-negotiable clauses in typical publishers' contracts: Reasonable Agreement ...
Sunday, October 27, 2024

Slop Dosh

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My sainted father used to call my mother's cooking "slopdosh" on occasion. Slopdosh, also absquatulate , are not words in comm...
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Friday, October 25, 2024

Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: State of Fear by Michael Crichton by Karen S. Wiesner

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  Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: State of Fear by Michael Crichton by Karen S. Wiesner       Be a...
Thursday, October 24, 2024

Mushroom-Robot Biohybrids

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Robots controlled by electrical impulses from fungal mycelium threads: Robot Blends Living Organisms and Machines The "rootlike thr...
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Saturday, October 19, 2024

32 Grave Diggers

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Everyone has 32 of them, more or less... These grave diggers are associated with decay, disease, death, not necessarily in that order, and -...
Friday, October 18, 2024

Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Prey by Michael Crichton by Karen S. Wiesner

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  Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Prey by Michael Crichton by Karen S. Wiesner     Be aware that...
Thursday, October 17, 2024

Organs on a Chip

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Quinton Smith, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at one of the colleges I attended, the University of Califor...
Sunday, October 13, 2024

E.L.V.I.S. and the Trojan Horse

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This is about your voice: your singing and speaking voice, not your writing voice. AI can steal either, or both. As a writer, you may not ha...
Friday, October 11, 2024

Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Timeline by Michael Crichton by Karen S. Wiesner

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  Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Timeline by Michael Crichton by Karen S. Wiesner       Be aware ...
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Thursday, October 10, 2024

An Authorized Fanfic Re-Visioning of NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR

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Last week Cory Doctorow posted a review of JULIA, by Sandra Newman, which coincidentally I've just finished reading. Novel-Writing Mac...
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Friday, October 04, 2024

Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Sphere by Michael Crichton by Karen S. Wiesner

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  Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Sphere by Michael Crichton by Karen S. Wiesner       Be aware th...
Thursday, October 03, 2024

When the Proper Amount of Something Is Zero

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Cory Doctorow on DRM, conflicts of interest, "bricking," the undermining of consumer privacy, collection of surveillance data, ide...
Sunday, September 29, 2024

In Praise of Swiss Cheesing It

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I'll start with a disclaimer. This short post is about life, productivity, romance, and stress.  Before I started this hopefully-inspiri...
Friday, September 27, 2024

Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Congo by Michael Crichton by Karen S. Wiesner

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  Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Congo by Michael Crichton by Karen S. Wiesner     Be aware tha...
Thursday, September 26, 2024

Quantity Versus Quality?

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Are quantity and quality incompatible strategies or goals? Not according to the observations in these and other similar essays: Quantity L...
Saturday, September 21, 2024

Puff It Up

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There are lies, damnable lies, and then there is puffery. This is true in all manner of advertising, and in all types of transactions. As fa...
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Friday, September 20, 2024

Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton by Karen S. Wiesner

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  Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton by Karen S. Wiesner     B...