SCI FI Wire Roundup
SCI FI Wire print news, week ending October 19, 2007:
SCI FI Wire Roundup
SCI FI Wire print news, week ending October 12, 2007:
links for 2007-10-19
links for 2007-10-18
-
I Am President (and So Can You!)?
links for 2007-10-17
-
Good news — that means we should be seeing fewer earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters, and fewer effects from global warming, right?
links for 2007-10-16
-
On pre-2007 books, while stock lasts (or until the end of November).
Im in ur social networking sites collecting ur passwords
What’s with all these social networking sites inviting you to enter your email address (and/or your instant messenger screenname) and your email address’s password in order to grant the site access to your account? (Not using your email address as a username for the networking site, mind you, but actually granting the site access to your personal email account.) Do people actually do this? Who thought this was a good idea?
links for 2007-10-15
-
A story similar to the “The Life and Death of Jesse James” piece I linked to the other day.
Breaking News: "SCI FI" Label is a Stigma, sez actor on SCI FI show
Over at the Galactica Blog, they quote an interview with Jamie Bamber (Apollo) in which he talks about how he dislike (sic) the label "SCI FI":
I think that’s a problem that science fiction has that it will always marginalize itself by calling itself SF. It’s unfortunate that we’re on the SCIFI channel; we can’t even get away from [the sci-fi label]. We couldn’t brand the show as anything else because of the network we’re on.
No, dude, you couldn’t brand the show as anything else because it employs numerous genre conventions and to call it anything else would be fucking stupid.
I should really be used to this by now, since seemingly every star of every SF television show or movie has to, at some point, deny their show/film’s SFnal nature. To be fair, the interview question did bait that response. But still. Frakkin’ idiot.
links for 2007-10-14
-
Do you type your words in a chair? Do you type them with some flair? Do you type your words late at night? Do you type them to cause a fright?
-
When a strange meteor smashes into a ship en route to Illyria, the bodies pile up as fast as the romantic complications. Will true love prevail? Can a zombie be made to understand the affairs of the heart, without eating it? Or will the fools of Illyria n
-
via http://www.sfsignal.com/ (again)