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Balancing Frogs

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An American living in Taiwan documents his universe.

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  • 35 Amazing Science Fair Projects!

    Posted on Saturday November 14th, 2009 at 20:36 in humor, internet stuff

    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

    Posted on Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 22:23 in literature, SF

    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

    Posted on Monday September 14th, 2009 at 20:56 in politics

    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

    Posted on Friday September 11th, 2009 at 00:50 in Culture

    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

    Posted on Thursday September 10th, 2009 at 20:58 in literature

    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

    Posted on Wednesday September 2nd, 2009 at 22:28 in humor

    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...

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