I’ve posted the latest update to the SF Canada website. Our big feature this time around is an interview with Bantam editor Anne Groell, conducted by Celu Amberstone. There’s also a short piece of fiction from Ahmed A. Khan. Of course, you can always get the latest news from SF Canada members (now with more …
Tag: World Wide Web
Dragons and turkeys and midgets, oh my!
This week’s CBC Web column… ******* Did you hear about the 42 members of the Cambodian Midget Fighting League mauled in a match against an African lion? How about the mummified fairy discovered in Derbyshire? Or, closer to home, did you know the world’s last surviving scientist specializing in the study of dragons lives in …
From Babel Fish to Woohoo!
Today’s Web column for CBC Saskatchewan’s Afternoon Edition… ********* If you’ve ever watched Star Trek, you’ve heard of the Universal Translator. The Universal Translator is a computer device that is able to instantly translate almost any alien language, no matter how bizarre, into American English. Of course, the Universal Translator doesn’t exist…yet. But all over …
"Science is easy!"
My daughter received a Webkinz for her sixth birthday last week. Webkinz are stuffed animals which come with a code that provides access to a website where kids can play games, buy things for the online version of their animals, etc. Among the Webkinz activities are quizzes about various topics. Among the topics: science. Which, …
Music scores for free!
I just learned about this site: the International Music Score Library Project. It’s a wiki that aims to “create a virtual library containing all public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge.” There are currently 4,268 works represented in 7,460 PDF …
Searching out search engines
This week’s CBC Radio Web column… ********* Have you ever heard yourself say, “Let me Google that?” Probably. Google is by far the most popular search engine on the World Wide Web–so popular many people never think of using anything else. But Google isn’t the only way to search for things on the Web. Just …
The ten most popular entry pages…
…to my main website, edwardwillett.com, are currently: http://www.edwardwillett.com/Columns/animalemotions.htmhttp://www.edwardwillett.com/Columns/footballphysics.htmhttp://www.edwardwillett.com/Columns/soccer.htmhttp://www.edwardwillett.com/Columns/spidergoats.htmhttp://www.edwardwillett.com/Columns/shoobird.htmhttp://www.edwardwillett.com/Columns/skunks.htmhttp://www.edwardwillett.com/Columns/pimples.htmhttp://www.edwardwillett.com/Columns/golftech.htmhttp://www.edwardwillett.com/Columns/uselessbodyparts.htmhttp://www.edwardwillett.com/Columns/driving.htm Just thought you’d want to know.
A passport to the past
This week’s CBC Web column (listen tomorrow for the audio version!)… *********** “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”, as L.P. Hartley famously wrote in his 1953 book The Go-between (well, at least the quote is famous; I’m not so sure Hartley or his book are any more–I had to Google …
Take part in a blog-reader survey
Barb Kaye of the College of Communications at the University of Tennessee is conducting an online survey of blog readers. Since you obviously read at least one blog, why not help her out? (Via Instapundit.)
"Shipwrecked and abandoned"
This ties in nicely with the earlier post of my CBC column on virtual worlds: Warren Ellis searches for signs of life in Second Life. Lots of people have had lots to say about the recent hype surrounding Second Life, but very few have addressed the basic experience of the world — that you’re incredibly …
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Better get started on The Encyclopedia of Life now, because it’s going to take a while: In a whale-sized project, the world’s scientists plan to compile everything they know about all of Earth’s 1.8 million known species and put it all on one Web site, open to everyone. The effort, called the Encyclopedia of Life, …
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