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Balancing Frogs
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An American living in Taiwan documents his universe.
- Author: Brendan
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Recent Posts
35 Amazing Science Fair Projects!
Today, a lesson in contextualizing: 35 Amazing Science Fair Projects!Now, I'm not going to pass judgement on any specific one of these fine science fair presentations. But I'm going to say that I strongly, strongly suspect that this set of thirty-fi...
Labels
Apparently November 18 is International Science Fiction Reshelving Day.Join us this November in a new and unique celebration of science fiction and fantasy literature. Many books from our fine genre are regularly placed in the wrong section of bookst...
In spittle news
As everybody who watches American cable news knows, the way to discuss politics and society in America is to park your face four inches from your opponent's, scream utter nonsense at the top of your lungs, and the way you know you've won is when the ...
Think of the Non-Gender Children
A highly intriguing photo from FailBlog:Now, I'm sure there's a reasonable and boring explanation for whatever the heck that sign's supposed to mean.But I'm more interested in the possibilities of what it could mean. If I were the editor of a fictio...
Genre
We divide fiction into genres. Usually you can tell from a glance at the cover whether it's General Fiction or Crime or Science Fiction or Fantasy or Romance or whatnot. And we all discriminate.The Science Fiction Ghetto is well-known enough that i...
Delicious Awkwardness
The Lyttle Lytton Contest is a variant of the better-known Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. The aim of the Lyttle Lytton is to create snippets of deliberately awkward or stilted prose. My favorite of the 2009 winners is this, from Adam Box:I have the...
