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  1. Sibilant Fricative, , more info

    2001: A Childhood's End
    This 1969 Ballantine edition of Clarke's celebrated 1953 novel is a curio. The cover art (the artist is uncredited, but may have been Dean Ellis) has taken the actual subject of the book—the coming of mysterious aliens to Earth to usher in a utopian new age, in order that a generation of ESP-gifted children can be born and grow safely to adulthood, so as to usher-in the next phase in …
    By Adam Roberts, 599 words
  2. CINEBEATS, , more info

    Someone is Bleeding: Les seins de glace (1974)
    Note: I’m compiling a tribute post in honor of Alain Delon but in the meantime, I thought I’d share this piece that I originally wrote for Turner Classic Movies. Before Richard Matheson etched out a name for himself as a popular writer of horror and science fiction he dabbled in crime thrillers and mysteries. His […]
    By Kimberly Lindbergs, 64 words
  3. Dr. Roseanne Chambers – Blog, , more info

    Gains in Geothermal Power Generation and Llamas
    Harnessing heat and pressure from deep underground to produce geothermal power is having a moment. Demand for electricity to support cryptocurrency mining and artificial intelligence endeavors is increasing enormously—by some estimates, data centers could double their current consumption and use up to 9% of total electricity generated in the United States by 2030. Meeting this increased energy demand with renewable, clean energy will require multiple power generation technologies. Fortunately, new …
    By Roseanne Chambers, 1,177 words
  4. Kansas City Painter Michael Schliefke, , more info

    August ’24 Studio Update
    The post August ’24 Studio Update appeared first on Schliefkevision - Paintings & Art Classes. Work on my series of paintings inspired by Greek mythology has been progressing at a decent clip. I estimate there’s probably only about a half or third of all the canvases I’ll paint even started at this point, but it feels like an exciting and fresh start to this body of work. The progress has… …
    By Michael Schliefke, 90 words
  5. Raph's Website, , more info

    Old movement stuff for STARS REACH
    When it comes to interim stages of game dev, I am a bit of a packrat. I have paper maps from when I was doing Ultima Online, and UI sketches for Star Wars Galaxies… of course, for my current thing, Stars Reach, I have a whole pile of images and videos going back to the very earliest days of the project. I mention this because we just posted up a …
    By Raph Koster, 449 words
  6. Up and Down These Mean Streets, , more info

    Rediscovered: Another Green Something Breathing
    Remember when bookseller and collector Paul Dobish discovered that the Stanley McNail poetry collection Something Breathing was bound in two variants of green cloth? “Until recently,” Paul tells me, “all of the copies of the Arkham House first edition that I had handled were in either of two green bindings. “I just acquired — because it had a review slip with it — a copy in a third green binding. …
    By Don, 283 words
  7. Guy Tal | Photographer, Author, , more info

    Be Extraordinary: EBook Now Available!
    My new book, Be Extraordinary: Philosophical Advice for Photographic and Other Artists is now available for purchase and immediate download. (Note that you may also purchase the book from ebook sellers, such as Amazon, Google, or Apple Books. However, if you purchase the ebook directly from my website, you will receive both an EPUB version to use with your e-reader, and a PDF version with high-resolution images, formatted to match …
    By Guy Tal, 526 words
  8. D4D, , more info

    Still Alive
    Still alive – still feeling ropy, although at least all the chest infections and so on have cleared up. I’ve still been left with a cough that’s just hanging around the back of my throat, and which causes the coughing up of lumpy green – not from the lungs, thankfully, but it’s still fairly grim. It is easing – although the most recent course of medication has done absolutely sod-all …
    By Lyle, 152 words
  9. Javier's computer, , more info

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  10. Spooky Rusty, , more info

    The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Smogg
    Dr. Smogg is a rich bitch industrialist who made his fortune in heavy manufacturing. Still, his methods are wasteful and produce many toxic by-products, which he disposes of in environmentally irresponsible ways. His next scheme is to pump massive amounts of toxic smog into the atmosphere from the smokestacks of his factory. Once airborne, the pollution will condense into solid waste particles and rain down upon the unsuspecting countryside. Fortunately, …
    By ᶘ ᵒ㉨ᵒᶅ Rusty James, 127 words
  11. We Hunted The Mammoth, , more info

    Women is stinky. Oatmeal feel good in tummy: The terrible dating advice of Casey Zander
    Dating coach, oatmeal lover, and raging misogynist: Casey Zander is all three. Actually, it’s not clear he’s a dating coach exactly, as his alleged wisdom on the woman question is so bleak and hateful that he may be driving young men away from the dating scene instead of providing them a reliable guide to it. Come for Casey’s “Oatmeal Story,” stay for his toxic advice. Bonus Quest: See if you …
    By David Futrelle, 103 words
  12. Babak Fakhamzadeh, , more info

    Three book launches, three Dutchies
    Only four years late, my long-time friend Joost visited me in Brazil over the last few weeks, coming over with wife Neha and their daughter. They had wanted to visit in 2020, but what is now the distant memory of COVID put a stop to that. Now, they were visiting for some three weeks, to enjoy the cultural riches of São Paulo, Foz de Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, and Paraty. …
    By Babak Fakhamzadeh, 427 words
  13. Russell Davies, , more info

    Very Meet, right, and our bounden duty
    At the end of September I'm doing a talk about PowerPoint for the members of a fancy club. Not quite sure why. To keep my eye in, mostly. But since I've got to put the talk together anyway it seems a shame not to share it with more people, so I thought I'd try an online version for all y'all. It's going to be at 7PM (UK time) on October …
    By russell davies, 106 words
  14. Screen Action Jazz, , more info

    Fallen Angels and a wayward Fugitive
    I covered Showtime’s marvelous film noir series, Fallen Angels, in my second volume. This anthology show delivered six episodes in the summer of 1993, followed by another nine in the autumn of 1995. Each playlet was adapted from a story by a famed noir author, and was blessed with a phenomenal attention to detail appropriate to post-World War II Los Angeles: a heavily stylized depiction of the city populated by …
    By Derrick Bang, 1,375 words
  15. the cassandra pages, , more info

    Permutations of the Same Thing
    It's been two months since I last wrote here, the longest break I think I've taken in the twenty-plus-year history of this blog. During the summer, we cleaned, packed, and sold my family home at the lake in central New York. Since coming back to Montreal, I've needed some time to rest from that labor, both physically and emotionally, and reconnect with my life here. I feel like I'm still …
    By Beth, 469 words