Nobody knows the meaning of the machinery of the Krell.

But really, what's with the spurious commas in "World class technical photographer, Peter Ginter, shot these..."? Would you say "President, George Bush"?

Wonderful. I had missed last year's.

It might improve our political discourse if all political speeches got clouded like this – preferably within minutes of being delivered.

But science fiction is short-story form! For all the commercial pressure to write longer, its heart is in short stories. This seems likely to become even more true, as we migrate to reading platforms that favor keeping it short.

Funny, I was just thinking over dinner how useful it would be to have a *fork* with this kind of functionality.

Oops! There's another bit of spaghetti on my shirt!

Eileen asked me if I'd heard about the Mac Trojan. "It's on Boing Boing," she said. "You're probably safe unless you visit a porn site."

A porn site? If you really wanted to catch Mac users, wouldn't you set your trap on a design site?