…and that’s especially true of the Internet, where a false persona is only a few mouse clicks away. Witness this slide show of real people and the avatars they use in online games. I don’t know what it says about me, but I’m more uncomfortable being anonymous online than I am being myself. I even …
More photos here.
The headphones can conduct electricity into your head if you’re struck–or nearly struck–by lightning! Talk about music that will “blow your mind”…
…has been set up by a href=”http://www.sfcanada.ca/”SF Canada/a member a href=”http://raftersscriptorium.blogspot.com/”Donna Farley/a. You can a href=”http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2504522110″find it here/a.br /br /Its purpose:br /br /emTo promote SF and fantasy by Canadian authors. To put readers and people in the Canadian SF writing and publishing community in touch. And maybe to find out if Sasquatch is online yet….Authors, …
…has been set up by SF Canada member Donna Farley. You can find it here. Its purpose: To promote SF and fantasy by Canadian authors. To put readers and people in the Canadian SF writing and publishing community in touch. And maybe to find out if Sasquatch is online yet….Authors, editors, publishers, artists, academics, teachers, …
Sad news from Saskatoon: Tibor Feheregyhazi, artistic director of Persephone Theatre, has died. I worked with Tibor twice, in the summer of 2000 on Tent Meeting at the Station Arts Centre in Rosthern, then later that same year at Persephone, when he cast me in Who Has Seen the Wind? He was a wonderful director …
“Study: Women Are in Charge at Home“: A study, which was just released, finds that wives have more power than their husbands in making decisions and dominating discussions.
…on Amazon.ca: the cover art for my upcoming book Historic Walks of Regina and Moose Jaw! It must be getting close.
Famous cartoonists draw their signature characters with their eyes closed in a 1947 Life Magazine article, resurrected at A Hole in the Head. Fascinating! (Some of these characters are still famous. Others…not so much.) (Via Drawn.)
…can be seen here, courtesy of PC World. The Badlands Guardian is the coolest, I think, although I also quite like the giant pink bunny and the World War II bomber caught in flight.
…to the soccer field. Near-microscopic robots playing soccer. Is this a great time to be alive, or what?
A few years ago I wrote about the effect of birth order on personality, a topic of particular interest to me as the youngest of three boys. At the time I noted that birth order has been studied since early last century, when psychologist Alfred Adler suggested that an only child may become over-protected and …
