May 2012
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Hal Duncan’s Favorite Monster →
Hal Duncan’s debut novel, Vellum, blew the top off my head. Imagine if Neil Gaiman were tripping on LSD, locked in a room with a typewriter, and told he would not be allowed out until he had successfully channeled the spirit of Philip K Dick while writing a novel about the myth of Prometheus and the multiverse. And that gives you a general sense of the book.
In short, I loved it.
So...
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“I don’t want an inscrutable and mystical persona. I’d much rather be a...”
– Neil Gaiman on his Tumblr
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A brief history of four letter words →
An excellent summary of the evolution of swear words, from Shakespeare’s time to now.
Warning: Contains swear words ;)
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“Whales are like mammals from space. They just have all these strange adaptations...”
– Paleobiologist Nick Pyenson
Whales have a sensory organ unlike anything we’ve ever seen
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Scientists tap the genius of babies to make... →
Toddlers teaching AI’s how to learn…
“Young children are capable of solving problems that still pose a challenge for computers, such as learning languages and figuring out causal relationships,” said Tom Griffiths, director of UC Berkeley’s Computational Cognitive Science Lab. “We are hoping to make computers smarter by making them a little more like children.”
In addition to...
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WatchArtomatic, a month-long art festival in the DC area, opens this weekend! My friend Stana made this teaser and has a piece in the festival as well.
Located at Vornado/Charles E. Smith’s, 1851 S. Bell Street, Arlington, VA. Runs until June 23rd.
EDIT: The embed seems to be having some trouble. Here’s the linke the Vimeo page:
https://vimeo.com/42298286
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Paralyzed Woman Controls Robotic Arm With Her Mind →
The concept of translating human neurological impulses to digital communication data (and back again) figures prominently in Man Made Boy. Here’s a great short article on the real science behind it.
With a 4-millimeter-wide, brain-implanted chip as its centerpiece, the system conducts signals from motion-controlling neurons to a computer that decodes the signals and turns them into...
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“My father said there’s only one trick to writing, and that’s not writing, that’s...”
– Thomas Steinbeck, on writing advice from John Steinbeck.
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Come say hi tomorrow at Hooray For Books in...
Tomorrow at 3:30pm, I’ll be emerging briefly from my revision cave to visit Hooray For Books in Alexandria, VA for a panel with fellow YA authors Jaclyn Dolamore (Magic Under Glass and Magic Under Stone) and Jay Baker (The Edumacation of Jay Baker). There will be readings, discussing of important, deep, literary things and all the usual nonsense one expects from a YA author panel. Although I...
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“Art IS information. If you’re me. I make no distinction between reading a...”
– Warren Ellis’ Notebook | how much of what you create is influenced by art, and how much by information? or rather, how much of the art that you consume, music, imagery, culture aesthetics, etc, makes it’s way into your work, as inspiration or actual content or what have you, versus the...
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Scrivener for iOS: An Update (There’s a Long Road... →
You can read the whole blog post if you like, but the essence of it is, Please be patient, we’re trying to make this awesome.
Better slow and awesome than rushed and crappy, right?
But to wet our appetites, they provided the list of basic features they’re hoping to include:
A working binder.
A working corkboard.
An editor that allows for basic rich text editing (bold, italics,...
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“It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that...”
– The Monster, from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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