Thursday, August 9th, 2007
Audible.com has an interview with Orson Scott Card and Ben Bova available as a free download. The interview is conducted by Stefan Rudnicki, and touches on the recently mentioned audiobooks vs. print argument (both authors agree that listening to the audiobook does count as reading).
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
I don’t know how long it will be up, but you can currently listen to the new Flight of the Conchords EP for free at Spinner.
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Monday, June 18th, 2007
Another great author interview. This time J.C. Hutchins interviews Michael A. Stackpole. It covers writing, podcasting, Star Wars, Dungeons & Dragons, and more.
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
Bryce is 3D modeling and animation software with a landscape focus.
DAZ has released the software as a free download for
Windows or
MacOS.
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
Escape Pod has a number of this years short story nominees available:
Impossible Dreams by Tim Pratt,
The House Beyond Your Sky by Benjamin Rosembaum,
Eight Episodes by Robert Reed, and
Kin by Bruce McAllister.
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
Tee Morris posted a great interview with
James Patrick Kelly (author of, among other things, the excellent Hugo Award winning novella
Burn) on The Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy. Jim really goes into his thoughts on podcasting fiction. Now I’m extra bummed I missed him when he was at the library recently.
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Friday, June 8th, 2007
Jonathan Coulton released a new song. What are you waiting for?
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Monday, May 7th, 2007
Lawrence Lessing is
spearheading an effort to have video of any presidential debates released under Creative Commons license (
CC-BY).
Barack Obama,
John Edwards and
Chris Dodd have all publicly supported the idea. So far
CNN is on board and
Fox News is not.
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
About two years ago
I mentioned clocky, the alarm clock that runs away from you developed at MIT.
Seems that it’s now available for purchase.Popularity: 26%
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