Thursday, December 05, 2024

Welcome to the Future

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Recommended for fans and writers of near-future science fiction: YOU CALL THIS THE FUTURE? THE GREATEST INVENTIONS SCI-FI IMAGINED AND SCIEN...
Friday, November 29, 2024

{Put This One on Your TBR List} Videogame Review: Dragon Age: The Veilguard by Karen S. Wiesner

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  {Put This One on Your TBR List} Videogame Review: Dragon Age: The Veilguard by Karen S. Wiesner   Warning Spoilers!   Dragon Age:...
Thursday, November 28, 2024

Happy Thanksgiving

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Happy American Thanksgiving! It's been our custom for many years -- aside from the COVID-19 hiatus -- to attend Chessiecon (formerly D...
Saturday, November 23, 2024

Unprotectable

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My "Unprotectable" title today comes with the earworm " Unforgettable " by Nat King Cole. One might or might not be surp...
Friday, November 22, 2024

Daily Thanksgiving by Karen S. Wiesner

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  Daily Thanksgiving by Karen S. Wiesner     “Be curious, not judgmental.”  ~Marguerite and Marshall Shearer   I read something recently abo...
Thursday, November 21, 2024

National Sovereignty and Free Expression

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column explores the tension between the rights of nations to "establish the rule of law" and indi...
Sunday, November 17, 2024

WHAT'S DE MINIMUS GOT TO DO WITH IT?

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Sometimes, small is better. If you are going to infringe on someone elses' copyright (which no one recommends), you want to go the extra...
Friday, November 15, 2024

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

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Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton by Karen S. Wiesner       Be aware that th...
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Sensible Style: Writing in the 21st Century

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Last week I reread Steven Pinker's THE SENSE OF STYLE (2014), subtitled "The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Cen...
Sunday, November 10, 2024

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS

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I've had a subtheme of Figures of Speech in recent weeks. "The Press" is metonymy , probably going back to a time when the pri...
Friday, November 08, 2024

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

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  Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Micro by Michael Crichton and Richard Preston by Karen S. Wiesner ...
Thursday, November 07, 2024

One Person, One Vote?

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In Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, Lord Vetinari, the Patrician who rules the largest city, embraces the principle of "one man,...