As everyone probably knows, Amazon made a big stink recently with the launch of its ebook reader the Kindle (and the associated ebook store). I’m on a mailing list for authors who distribute on podiobooks.com, and the Kindle set that normally very quiet mailing list on fire. Everyone seemed to have a very strong opinion.
I checked Snopes in case this is a hoax, and they don’t have anything about this yet, but apparently currency dealer Travelex has developed cash money designed to be used in space.
The QUID has been designed to withstand the stresses of space travel and the extreme environment found in orbit around the Earth. It has also been created so that it can be purchased on earth in any one of the 176 currencies used around the globe.
I came across a great metaphor for relationships awhile ago - bricks and mortar. Bricks are the “big things” - the events of life that you share with friends. Mortar is the little, everyday stuff, that the people you are closest to just know about, often whether they want to or not.
As Scheherazade wrote in her original blog post that caught my eye, bricks get all the attention. When we think about communication, we think about the bricks. But mortar is what makes it all stick together, and without it there’s no solid foundation.
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been focusing on my fiction a lot more lately. And as a part of that, I’m really excited to be launching the podcast of my SF novel, Beautiful Red.
You can have a listen to the promo here, or even better, head over to the site at http://darusha.ca/beautifulred to subscribe to get the episodes automatically.
For a number of years I’ve been interested in prison systems, particularly the current counter-productive nature of the US system. So, I was really interested to hear this week’s Tech Nation on IT Conversations, which is a discussion with Sasha Abamsky about the state of prisons in the US, the history of the penal system and some of the things going on today that curdle my blood.
In honour of International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day, I give you Career Opportunities, a very short story I wrote for the flash fiction contest run earlier this year by the awesome Escape Pod science fiction podcast.
I somehow magically got a Wii for my birthday, and have been meaning to post about it. Lots has been said about it, but there are two main points I think are worth mentioning.
The podcast feed may have been wacky for the last little while. It’s been fixed, but you may see some duplicates. Sorry.
When I was a kid, I remember I had this book. It was a
Here's the list of technologies I want in my grubby paws by this time next
I've been fairly silent around these parts for the past while, mainly because I've been
I know everyone and her dog will be talking about this, but I have to
I recently learned of an internet technology that I'm shocked isn't getting more press.
