No Clothes

Those of you who follow the publishing gossip will by now have heard about Harlequin Horizons. For those of you who haven’t been following, here’s the long and short: Harlequin has decided to expand into pay-to-play publishing.
Needless to say, this hasn’t gone over well at all. Apparently the folks over at Harlequin are “very surprised [...]

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Russia Freaks Me Out

OK this sort of stuff freaks me the fuck out:
“The cyber attacks on Twitter and other popular web services disrupted the lives of hundreds of millions of Internet users this week, but the principal target appeared to be one man: a 34-year-old economics professor from the republic of Georgia.”
(More here)
The article goes on to say [...]

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Less and Less

Less and less information is getting out of Iran, which is exactly as authorities want it. But there is a little still trickling out.
I have been glued to the computer, watching events unfold, twittering madly, and alternately laughing at the comics and the jokes going around, and covering my mouth with my hand when I [...]

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Not on the News

This is the canceled demonstration in Tehran. You know, usually I think the BBC is a pretty good news source. Right now it’s the only MSM news source, but that doesn’t make it good.

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Allah o akbar

It’s not my fight, not really, but as the great man said, injustice anywhere hurts justice everywhere, or something to that effect. What’s happening in Iran has me riveted, not just because it’s happening through unorthodox and non-mainstream-media channels, and not just because it’s showing that the internet isn’t just a repository for porn, it’s [...]

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Sigh

A while ago I said I thought the government wasn’t reading its own proposed legislation and I’m sure I’m not the only one who pointed out the proposed changes to Canada’s copyright legislation were awfully close to the US’s phenomenally unsuccessful and profoundly misguided laws. Well, it seems I was more right than I knew.
*sigh*

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Clarification

A few people have taken issue with a few things I said at the Aurora panel last night. We did get rather off topic, so I didn’t pursue them at the time, but here’s clarification for you, should you desire it.
1. I said I don’t think Sawyer writes a particularly Canadian sort of SF. I [...]

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ebook Piracy

In which I say what I think about ebooks, and pirates and arr.
I welcome your opinions but do not commit to changing my own.

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Books, Agents and Scams

The Mediocre Assassin’s Handbook is finally with Tenth Man on Amazon. If you’re shopping there, and you dig superheros (like me), you might want to pick up the Masks trilogy by Hayden Thorne, and maybe even a copy of the infamous Atlanta Nights (just to round out your book buying). If you don’t know the [...]

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Lame

Pirate Bay is in deep trouble.
I haven’t read the verdict, just this from the Globe and Mail:
The court found the defendants guilty of helping users commit copyright violations “by providing a website with … sophisticated search functions, simple download and storage capabilities, and through the tracker linked to the website.”
The articles is interesting, aside from [...]

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