Someone just pointed me to the MODIS Active Fire Mapping Program; click the "JPEG Image" link on that page to get a large satellite image of California with an overlay of red and orange spots showing actively burning areas.

Thanks much for the plug for SH!

I'm a little confused, though, by your saying that the online mags dominate the awards. Can you clarify what you meant by that? If you meant that there are a lot of stories from online magazines nominated for and winning major sf awards, then I'd love to see that happen, but so far I don't think it has.

In the Hugos, nominations and winners (in short fiction) are dominated by Asimov's, Analog, and print anthologies, and have been for years. Lately, there's usually been a couple of online stories nominated each year, but I don't think anything first published online has ever won a Hugo. (It may've happened once or twice that I'm forgetting, but not often.)

In the World Fantasy Awards, stories that Ellen Datlow published in various online venues won awards three or four times in short-fiction categories in 1997 through 2001, but nothing since.

And in the Nebulas, four stories from Sci Fiction won in various categories from 2001 through 2004, but nothing since.

I imagine we'll be seeing stories from the newish Baen and Card online magazines (Universe and Intergalactic Medicine Show) appearing on awards ballots over the next couple years, and SH stories pop up on the ballots now and then too. And there are a bunch of other online sf magazines publishing good stories. But I think we're a long way from the online magazine dominating the awards.

...My personal theory is that most readers these days don't like short fiction so much. Which, as a big fan of short fiction myself, I find sad. But, speaking anecdotally, I know a bunch of people who love 900-pages novels but aren't interested in reading short stories.