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Page last updated fri-14-jul-2006.
EDITOR: It's still May!
OBS & COGS: Flying seeds, rabbits, linguistics, TV ads, movies
LEGO NEWS: Blogs, fancy robots, "Batman" and Nickelodeon sets
SPECIAL EVENTS: Wizard World, video games concert, anime picnic, etc.
NO LONGER PARTICULARLY RECENT NEWS: Attended three of the fri-20-jun-2003 bookstore parties celebrating the release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The first batch of photos now available; see written coverage on my new NSX: Blog Mode blog (beta testing).
Attended BALTICON 37 this Memorial Day weekend, in US/MD/Baltimore. Gave a solo Science Track talk on Exoskeletons and Power Armor (I'm slowly formatting my notes for online use), and sat on panels for "Enterprise", "Farscape", "Stargate", and "How to Write Technobabble". Issue 5.2 begins the coverage; expect more, and photos, shortly (where "shortly" is, as always, open to flexible definition).
...and coming shortly eventually in the indeterminate and
rapidly-receding future...
CONVENTION REVIEW: 59th World Science Fiction Convention (the Millenium Philcon).
CONVENTION REVIEW: 48th Annual Hugo Awards (and Retro Hugos).
CONVENTION REVIEW: WorldCon 2001 costuming.
CONVENTION REVIEW: WorldCon 2001 photos.
UPCOMING: Books from Tor (from WorldCon).
UPCOMING: Books from Warner-Aspect (from WorldCon).
ANALYSIS: Insults, curses and swearing in SFF.
ANALYSIS: Aliens of Jack L. Chalker's Well World.
REVIEW: Sean McMullen's Souls in the Great Machine.
REVIEW: Animé "Legend of Galactic Heroes".
REVIEW: Animé import "Digimon" season 3.
REVIEW: Animé import "Medabots".
REVIEW: CGI cartoon "Cubix: Robots for Everyone".
REVIEW: CGI cartoon "Heavy Gear".
REVIEW: Summer movie tie-in cartoon "The Mummy".
REVIEW: Summer movie tie-in cartoon "Alienators: Evolution Continues".
PRODUCT REVIEW: CKSauce LightWand toy.
PRODUCT REVIEW: PDA comparison: TR-580 tricorder, Palm Pro, Palm III, eBookMan, Z-Touch, and keychain twisty thing.
PRODUCT REVIEW: Comparison of plastic building brick action figures.
SOFTWARE REVIEW: Cosmigo ProMotion: DeluxePaint is back!
WHY...? You chatted at lunch, confabbed during commercial breaks, kibbitzed on the net when nothing more immediate was available. Then you moved, all those personal links were severed, and the great vacuum of isolation metaphorically rushed in. You were left adrift, bereft, devoid of wry, comprehensive, and insightful outlooks on the more-or-less-utterly useless minutiae of pop culture.
Or perhaps you didn't, and you weren't, and you haven't, but it sounds like fun anyway or at least moderately useful on occasion and I'd like to start so where do I sign up?
WHAT...? So now, available by subscription only, it's an idiosyncratic e-newsletter in which Phillip Thorne PHILLIP THORNE himself -- you've probably never heard of him, but it doesn't matter, he's eccentric -- reviews, synopsizes and analyzes his focus of the instant: SF books, film and TV; animation; toys; and his own soporific peregrinations into the realms of Morpheus. And best of all, it's all ASCII text with linebreaks at an indeterminate point prior to 80 columns. It's news the way the Internet used to be -- the way it was (if the writer might be so bold) meant to be. No active content! No ad banners! No HTML enhancements, fancy CSS, or XML! No pictures whatsoever! Woooo!
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