I’m really not sure how this works, but it supposedly turns any name into a face. Here’s mine.
- Fringe‘s science consultants don’t have a background in science. Yeah, it shows.
- Tor is offering Brian Francis Slattery’s terrific first novel Spaceman Blues as a free e-book.
- I think I’ve mentioned before how I use Facebook mainly as a Scrabble delivery system. (If you’re online, why not let’s play?) So I found this xkcd cartoon especially funny. But is it wrong that the first thing I thought of was Red Dwarf‘s Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society?
- Speaking of xkcd — which seems like a prerequisite for any internet conversation nowadays — here’s creator Randall Munroe’s Cartoon-Off with The New Yorker. I don’t know about you, but I think he won pretty handily.
- So Pixish is closing. I got some really great artwork out of the one assignment I ran there for Kaleidotrope, but I appreciate the concerns over “spec work” — even if I think my assignment steered well clear of that. I agree that soliciting design from several artists for a specific product, which the artists will not be able sell elsewhere if it’s not accepted, is a pretty crummy thing to do. But I’m not convinced that “design contests,” in which artists submit work they think might be a good fit for a product or publication, are equally underhanded. After all, it’s not considered spec work when a writer submits to a contest, loses, and doesn’t get paid.
- It’s not entirely surprising that the architect of the most virulent Obama smears is sort of a scumbag. It’s just sort of amazing how big of one he is.
- This paperback book lounger looks really cool, but also fairly uncomfortable.
- Neil Patrick Harris read for the part of Simon Tam on Firefly?
- Criminal Minds is “an Arthurian romance and a meditation on the existence and evolution of God”? Wow, That almost makes me want to watch it!
- H.P. Lovecraft: stand-up-comedian? Well, not quite.
Yeah, that definitely explains why the one episode of Fringe I saw seemed like it got its understanding of science from reading magazines.
Ha! Just like Betty, Fringe lost me as a viewer after one episode. It doesn’t help that I can’t imagine Joshua Jackson as anyone but Pacey!
I agree that Fringe‘s problems run a lot deeper than bad science.