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May 16, 2009
RollBots Recap: 113 “Nonlinear”
This week’s episode is “Nonlinear”, a great story by Terry Saltsman, and the last of the first half of the season. The reason you care about that marker is that this is where we start to get into heavy arc goodness, with both Spin and Vertex evolving quickly. There are very few “silly” eps left!
Nonlinear should probably be paired with RB111, where we first meet Octo. In that one, he’s given orders to gut Nobrek Acres, and now just two episodes later, we see the fruits of his labour. Sorta.
May 14, 2009
More on the Doctorow Principle
(I’m calling it the Doctorow Principle so it’s easier for me to look up in the archives six years from now)
I’ve been giving this question of comments from Slashdot that mirror what I’m thinking, and will brainstorm here to figure out where to go. But first, a quick note: since my post last night, all but two of the TorrentBoy contributors I’ve had contact with have written to say they’re not opposed to this kind of idea. Luckily, our early adopters are as crazy as I am!
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May 13, 2009
TorrentBoy: The Doctorow Conundrum
Cory Doctorow wrote a fantastic and thought-provoking piece today at Internet Evolution where he basically calls for something that closely resembles the TorrentBoy Project, but with one key difference: adapting the license to allow for a free-for-all commercial ecosystem. It’s not too far off from my original plans, but terrifyingly different in some aspects. He provides a sketch of a license framework, which reads:
“You are free to use the visual, textual, and audiovisual elements of this wor
My teeny cat just chased a ver…
My teeny cat just chased a very large dog down the street. She is six kinds of dumb, but luckily the dog is seven kinds of chicken.
I don’t recall you replying so…
I don’t recall you replying so often, @scalzi… perhaps this is all part of @twitter’s plan to make the service more entertaining!
May 12, 2009
Fission Chips Preview
My next book is called Fission Chips, and it’s a mystery novel. It’s very silly, and it’s got an interesting operating style… and to really lock down the absurdity of it all, I tried to make the cover look as classic-yet-faux as I could.
I should mention my debt of gratitude to both robertnelson for his gun photo (CC licenses FTW) and Ted Slampyak’s excellent tutorial on making new stuff look old.
Look for news about Fission Chips in the next few weeks. It’s gonna be a fun one!
May 11, 2009
gah… battling unbearable des…
gah… battling unbearable desire to embed an OTF font on my site! Not enough time to be distracted, but it would look SO GOOD…
Tiny Random Updates
It was a wonderful weekend and this next week should be pretty fun as well. I am (naturally) falling behind on my plans to release Percy’s Perch this month, but everything else is keeping pace nicely. So before I forget, here’s a roundup of things to do in May 2009:
TorrentBoy! I did up a little image for TorrentBoy which is much darker and scarier than it probably should be, but I couldn’t resist. I also expanded on kdnewton’s excellent Crash design (bandana FTW) and did my best to recreate
