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This September there are more than eight dozen calls for submissions. All of these are paying markets, and none charge submission fees. As always, every genre, style, and form is wanted, from short stories to poetry to essays.I post upcoming calls for submissions shortly before the first day of every month. But as I am collecting them, I post them on my page, Calls for Submissions. You can get a …

“And what is the point of learning facts within the school system when the most important facts given by the finest science of that same school system clearly mean nothing to our politicians and society?” Greta Thunberg (2019) No One Is Too Small To Make A Difference, Penguin: Harmondsworth (p. 12) In our final session in our 2024 series focussed upon considering how we humans can notice the subtle but …

I've been collecting the stickers since the beginning of my career, from events such as Gavin Strange's Droplet launch 💧, the Future Of Web Design conference, Netlify's Jamstack Conf, plus all the companies and people I've had the privilege to work with.However, the tabletop itself is from my first flat after moving out of my mum's house… actually, I lied. It was in my first flat, alongside an inflatable bed, …

I’ve tried Notion, Obsidian, Things, Apple Reminders, Apple Notes, Jotter and endless other tools to keep me organised and sure, Notion has stuck around the most because we use it for client stuff, but for todo lists, all of the above are way too complicated. I’ve given up this week and gone back to paper and a pencil and I feel unbelievably organised and flexible, day-to-day. It’s because it’s simple. …

Here are a few favorite random snippets from Zen resources: from Iron Flute. 14. Pai-Yun’s poem: Where others dwell, I do not dwell. Where others go, I do not go. This does not mean to refuse association with others; I only want to make black and white distinct. ***** from Gateless Gate. 19. “Everyday Life is the Path.” Joshu asked Nansen: “What is the path?'” Nansen said: “Everyday life is …

The function random.shuffle relies on the mutability of the argument and mutability is a pain in the arse, so we propose an alternative. Mutability and random.shuffle The function random.shuffle shuffles its argument in place, which means it relies on the mutability of the argument. This can introduce bugs if care is not taken. Consider the snippet of code that follows: def generate_maze(base_width, base_height): width = 2 * base_width + 1 …

Right now, as these very words are being published, Letna Park in the Czech Republic’s capital city Prague is playing[…] The post A Visit to Letni Letna Festival appeared first on The Circus Diaries.

There aren't a great many sites of memory left to evoke the first bombing war, so during my recent UK trip I thought I'd make the effort to track a couple of them down. (One, Cleopatra's Needle, I did see on my first UK trip, but have never managed to make it back.) The first is a very sad place, yet a peaceful one, as is often the way with …

1. The more science fiction and fantasy you read the easier it is to guess where any given premise will go. When a book upends your predictions you feel like you’ve got something special. Doris Piserchia—like Margaret St. Clair, another neglected SF writer—has a talent for dodging the predictable narrative. Take the first Piserchia novel I read, I, Zombie (originally published under the name Curt Selby). A company uses remote-controlled …

by James Patrick Kelly James Patrick Kelly discusses the dramatic beginnings of his latest Asimov’s novelette “In the Dark,” now available in our [September/October issue, on sale now!] Credit: Bill Clemente There’s an annual conference that I like to attend called the International Conference on the Fantastic (ICFA). It takes place in March in Orlando, Florida. While it started as an academic conference, over time the organizers began to welcome …

With this work by Anthony Domenick, we continue to highlight original fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry from writers who either published their first book at 40 or after, or who have yet to publish a book. Writers interested in submitting work should see our guidelines. (For Gina Marie Smith, whose capacity for empathy embraced the possibility of enduring the unendurable) Strong Son of God, immortal Love Whom we, that have …

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In September I’m trialing a new challenge. I’m calling it the IMPOSSIBLE 30. It’s actually not that IMPOSSIBLE. It’s a simple baseline. So here’s the challenge: 30 Days Oh, and sometime during the month – knock one thing off your impossible. That’s all. Free to join. It starts this Sunday (on the 1st). Just click... continue reading >

Via NASAPlanet generation is a topic I keep coming back to, trying to develop the perfect formula. This post has been percolating for well over a year at this point, long enough that I had actually forgotten the contents of my prior attempts (see here, here, here and here)I have been fiddling around with this idea for a very long while now (I think this is a year+ draft?), and …

This time-lapse drone video following the climbing route up Mount Everest does more to make clear the sheer scale of Everest, and in greater detail, than the eponymous 1998 documentary I first saw in an IMAX theatre—which wasn’t exactly a slouch. This video, however, uses a commercially available drone that starts at around C$2,750 (and it’s no coincidence that it was posted by the drone manufacturer, because oh lord does …