admin

Today’s Diversions

Bush, Rumsfeld, and Powell take some time off to model for the Banana Republic catalog… Matt Cheney’s got a post up about some of the flack Strange Horizons appears to be taking for publishing a soft SF story… that’s about the sexual relationship between two women. Though I agree that the story would have been

Today’s Diversions Read More »

Teaching Gaiman

And, one more before I get started on these 700 pages of line edits (arg): check out Matt Cheney’s reflections on teaching Neil Gaiman’s American Gods to his highschool AP English class. I just think it’s damn cool he got away assigning a real book – with swearing and vagina dentate and non-white people and

Teaching Gaiman Read More »

Good Women Are Thin Women

Amazon.com is sponsoring a series of rather dull, boring short movies that then try and “make money” by advertising products seen in the short. They’ve got one up with Minnie Driver called “Portrait” in which the office fat girl – who’s seen eating in *every damn scene* – at a modeling agency gets her photo

Good Women Are Thin Women Read More »

Further Hysterics

So, one of the guys in the office just forwarded all the women in the office this stupid urban legend thing, passing it off as him being this concerned male citizen of virtue. You know this one, the *677 cell phone feature (in CANADA) that’ll save a poor helpless woman who’s got an unmarked police

Further Hysterics Read More »

Dynamic Personalities

This one is fascinating, from New Scientist: Students who thought of Superman volunteered much less of their time than those who thought about other superheroes. Furthermore, Superman-primed subjects were significantly less likely to show up at a meeting for volunteers held three months after they were initially asked to participate. The reason, believes Nelson, is

Dynamic Personalities Read More »

Scroll to Top