A few random items of interest:
# There is an article about Somali pirates published at playboy.com (which is potentially NSFW if you’re accessing the Internet somewhere where anything associated with PLAYBOY could get you flagged/in trouble), which has some interesting facts about the Somali scene:
The success rate for a crew going on the account in [...]
I saw this week the article in the TIMES about ELECTRIC LITERATURE. What struck me was the description of “Twitter literature,” the delivery of content by tweets to an audience willing to invite a writer’s streams to interrupt their lives.
And part of me asked, if I had had that option at the beginning of this project, what that [...]
Been so damn busy that I didn’t realize until now that the slotted announcements I had for the last two parts never got posted. Gotta love technical issues..
In any event, Part the One Hundred Eighty Third and Part the One Hundred Eighty Fourth are now up and ready for your enjoyment. And baring any new [...]
Part the One Hundred Eighty Second is now up, and may be read here.
Word is on the wires today that the People’s Republic of China might be considering a rescue of the De Xin Hai.
Having not been able to keep their assets from being seized, whether through reliance on the navies of the Real Coalition of the Willing or through dolphin intervention, the PLAN (People’s Liberation Army Navy) [...]
Part the One Hundred Eighty First is now up, and may be read here.
Found out this morning that Atlanta wants to build a pirate museum. A whole big museum, complete with recovered treasure, interactive exhibits, and maybe a barbecue restaurant.
Yep, a museum. About pirates. In Atlanta.
*sigh*
Now, first problem I see, is justifying putting a museum that involves any naval history in a city so far inland. It’s about [...]
A few days ago, a discussion got started here about sexism in fiction. I really appreciate the people who wrote in and commented; it’s been a spirited debate that’s been worth having, and the people who dropped by have had a lot of good things to say.
During the course of putting together the initial rant, [...]
Part the One Hundred Eightieth is now up, and may be read here.
It appears there’s a political movement out there called the U.S. Pirate Party. No, it’s not a social group that downs rum drinks with Jolly Rogers in their glasses, but a real political movement that has copyright reform as one of its planks (hence the pirate name). For those of you thinking that pirates have [...]
There was an article published on io9.com by Annalee Newitz concerning reactions to a statement about the “feminization” of science fiction noted by an anonymous poster at a site called “The Spearhead” and how introducing such feminized traits as “moronic relationship drama” was ruining the genre.
(Yes, I said the site’s name is “The Spearhead,” and [...]
Part the One Hundred Seventy Ninth is now up, and may be read here. Yes, things are back to what passes for normal round these waters…
