September 15, 2005 – 11:14 pm
Congratulations to Laurel Krahn, she’s marrying her sweetheart Kevin at the Minnesota Twins game this Saturday.
Laurel’s another of the first cadre of Webloggers from back in 1998. Her current web project’s TV Picks, where she points you at what’s worth your TV time, which grew out of her love for the series Homicide. She’s been [...]
September 11, 2005 – 1:56 pm
From Daily Variety (subscription req): Sir Alec Guinness’ Obi-Wan Kenobi costume found.
Star Wars memorabilia hunters mulling a bid shouldn’t get their hopes up. An Angels [the costume shop where the robes were found] spokesperson says there are no plans to sell the cloak — though auctioneers have valued it at as much as $45,000.
September 3, 2005 – 5:38 pm
Nevenah Smith’s an old friend who moved to New Orleans a few years ago. When hurricane Katrina turned towards Lousianna on Saturday, I asked if she was going to evacuate.
Early Sunday morning she wrote that she, her boyfriend, their cats, and her computer were leaving. They arrived in Madison Sunday night, after driving straight [...]
August 11, 2005 – 12:27 am
[ via Neil Gaiman ] To tuckerize (after Wilson Tucker) is to name a character in a work of fiction after a real person.
You, dear reader, can buy the right to be tuckerized by the likes of Karen Joy Fowler (Tiptree Award co-founder), Steven King, Michael Chabon, and Neil Gaiman in a series of [...]
Anita Rowland’s health took a bad turn. The cancer she fought off a few years ago has returned.
Anita’s been active in weblogs and online-journals since the beginning, and she’s a keystone of the Seattle weblog community. I met her through Science Fiction fandom and Potlatch.
Please keep Anita and Jack in your thoughts.
The Carl Brandon Society would like some web programming help.
The Society promotes Science Fiction and Fantasy by and about people of color.
They would like help setting up:
Membership registration
A bibliographic database
A weblog/lightweight CMS
If you’re interested and available, please contact Victor Raymond, vraymond@iastate.edu
Technorati: wiscon
My friend Lucy observes:
Ever since Worldcon last year I’ve realized all [Science Fiction] conventions are merely an excuse for Livejournal members and Buffy fans to hang out while the professionals in the field get some business done on the side.
I’ve wondered why Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a hit with ‘mainstream,’ book-oriented fandom, and not [...]
I’m excited by a connection between blogging and feminism that my friend Badgerbag made during the last panel I was on at WisCon 29, Can We be Equal on the Web.
The conversation had turned to writer’s blogs and exposing the ‘cutting room floor’ in the process. My friend badgerbag told us about how documenting your [...]
Deirdre Saoirse Moen, who’s running programming at BayCon, took up the Convention tagging idea and asks that you tag your convention related posts with:
<a href=”http://technorati.com/tag/baycon” rel=”tag”>BayCon</a>
By extension, the Disclave and FanimeWest bloggers can follow our lead and tag their posts.
If you’re writing about WisCon in your weblogs and public LiveJournals, add a ‘tag’ to your posts so we can round them up.
The syntax is easy. Add this to your WisCon related posts:
<a href=”http://technorati.com/tag/wiscon” rel=”tag”>wiscon</a>
Your post will be picked up on Technorati, which will automatically generate one big con report on one page.
If you tag [...]
Mark Bernstein discovers that Tiger has a file with the Language of Flowers. So Cyn should hurry up and get her own PowerBook so she knows what those Peach Blossoms are about.
However, the file lives in a path that Spotlight doesn’t index.
Tim Bray learns that Bubble Tea is a recent phenomena. I recommend the avocodo [...]
Whedon and Apple just go together, eh?
Serenity Dashboard Widget
Serenity Trailer in HD Video [QuickTime 7]
April 26, 2005 – 12:00 am
OMG! The Browncoats launch on September 30th!
Translation from Fanboy speak: Universal Studios released a trailer for the upcoming Joss Whedon film Serenity, based on his TV series Firefly. The film opens on 30 September 2005.
March 31, 2005 – 12:00 am
If disagreeing with the herd, condemning sexism, or telling a convention you can’t afford to be their guest of honor at your own expense hurts comics, then we should all hurt them.
28 years ago, a bunch of UW Madison students and recent grads came back from the 1976 WorldCon and decided they’d like to run a convention. And as they attended Susan Wood’s groundbreaking panel on women and science fiction, they decided their convention would have a feminist theme.
Now there’s another feminist-oriented SF convention. It’s run [...]
