Links for 17-03-2007
Scalzi for President, things that happen when you become a published author, developing a sixth sense for wi-fi…
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1 – SFWA President: I’m a Write-In Candidate
“While the ballot does not offer a “none of the above” option for voting, it does offer SFWA members the ability to offer a write-in candidate instead.” Scalzi steps into the breach. This could get interesting.
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2 – Five Things That Do Happen When You Become a Published Author
“Following my somewhat pessimistic post on Five Things That Don’t Happen When You Become a Published Author, here are a few things I’ve noticed that do happen when you become a published author.” D.L.E.
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3 – Clockpunk Anthology Project
“People can submit their short stories to be published online first over here. Once we have enough material we can release the best stories as an anthology and get a publisher to notice us…” It might just work, you know.
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4 – The Willows – Fiction Magazine Seeks Submissions
“…Mr Thomas seeks submissions for a new magazine of Steampunk/Early Pulp fiction called The Willows – stories that could have been appropriate to telling around the fire at the Gentlemans Club…”
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5 – Giving yourself a sixth sense for wireless networks
“You will easily and quite literally “feel” wireless access points in the vicinity and automatically sense their signal strength as easily as you feel the wind on your cheek.”
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6 – Giant Pool of Water Ice at Mars’ South Pole
“Mars is unlikely to sport beachfront property anytime soon, but the planet has enough water ice at its south pole to blanket the entire planet in more than 30 feet of water if everything thawed out.”
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7 – Could crazy technology save the planet?
“Crazy-sounding ideas for saving the planet are getting a serious look from top scientists, a sign of their fears about global warming and the desire for an insurance policy in case things get worse.” Via Brian Wang.
March 18th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Wireless meat vibrator
Over at I Make Projects some electronics geek has thunk up a device that reacts to the relative strengths of local wireless signals. It then transmits this information to the wearer by changing the rapidity of the vibrating “heartbeat” of t…