I find it singularly amazing that the SFWA maintains the cohesion that it currently enjoys because it is made up of the second-most dramatic species this world will ever know: writers. And none of them seem to want to lead the bustling group anywhere -- and can I blame them? No.

All this together, I agree that the executives who represent the SFWA do need to be credible writers. While acting like a pompous prig with delusions of literary popularity isn't uncommon for the guiding lights of the community, doing so with little account for the real world -- such as blindly lashing about with copyright law, beating and bruising the rest of the community -- will not end well.

On the SFWA drama: Screw herding cats -- try herding squid!

Kyt Dotson

I'm really interested now.

I think, though, it would be interesting to have a documentary that didn't focus on just the hardcores (or to display that it's a hardcore venue.) I am sure that there is a whipped fluff of many casuals that create constellations of networks through MMORPGs.

In fact, for me, some nights the MMORPG worlds are my graphical Instant Messengers. Weeknights, I might not spend more than 30 mins in there checking up on people.

Like Winkin, Blinkin, and Nod I spread my nets far and wide for all the stars I can pull into my hold.

I am overjoyed to see this! The original lite-brites may have been part of a marketing campaign, but really they served to make an important point about the stupidity of CYA security and one of the failure modes of terrible public safety.

Attempting to accuse the promoters of hoax devices and "infernal machines" had to have been the darkest hour of those pompous windbags.

This is beautiful and I am extremely amused.

Bravi.

I really loved reading Rainbows End. With it as a free electronic document, it should be more easy to get some of my geekier friends to sit down and read it.

Although, I myself have trouble giving up the tactile sense of holding onto a book (something that actually gets discussed in the subject literature, I notice.)

Lovely times.