New Scientist: Transporters Are Real?

Recently New Scientist had an article about scientists who had managed to transport ions across a room. They didn’t put it in a box and walk it over. No. They actually transported it. As in: Poof, it’s there! Pretty incredible if you ask me. Maybe we’ll do two ions this time. And then a goldfish! […]

RIP: Realms of Fantasy Magazine

According to SF Scope, Realms of Fantasy Magazine is closing down, their April 2009 issue being the last one. Needless to say, I am quite upset by this because RoF is/was one of my favorite fantasy magazine (fiction, that is, as I don’t care much for anything else). It’s one of the few magazines that […]

RIP: John Updike

Apparently John Updike passed away today at the tender age of 76 (from lung cancer). That’s somewhat disheartening for some reason. He will be missed! (Thanks to Grasping For the Wind)

Note to IE Users

Apparently there was an issue with the right sidebar for those of you who use Internet Explorer:  the right sidebar didn’t show up and the footer often wasn’t there.  This seemed to have something to do with the amount of posts on the main page and should be fixed for those of you who make […]

Contests Around the Blogosphere

Firstly, Blood of the Muse has a giveaway for Betwixt by Tara Bray Smith. S. J. Day is giving away a bunch of EVE stuff. Stella Matutina is giving away a Ranger’s Apprentice book.Then Mulluane was kind enough to link up a whole bunch of book giveaways around the blogosphere. So, go enter some contests […]

Visitor Milestone: 50,000!

Apparently I crossed my 50,000 hits milestone the other day. Not bad. Of course, it would be lovely if that were 50,000,000, but I’m not John Scalzi. In any case, thank you all for sticking around, visiting my blog, commenting, etc. I appreciate it. Here’s to another 50,000!