I recently appeared on the podcast The First Run, co-hosted by my friend Chris Scalzo, to discuss Avengers: Endgame. Check it out here!
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Lindsay Ellis’s The Hobbit “duology” documentary — funny, frustrating, melancholic, nostalgic, overall a great watch — is a finalist for Hugo Award for Best Related Work. I’ve been a big fan of her work since she began a decade ago.
The rest of the nominees look strong, but I’ve been out of sync with SF this year. Hoping to remedy that soon.
ETA – watch the first part here.
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Amazon Mothership Concept Art
Pretty sure this is how Skynet starts.
(via Gizmodo)
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Sea otter archaeology, you say?
A new study suggests that sea otters create a distinct archaeological record, and it might eventually have a lot to tell us about their evolutionary history.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/sea-otter-archaeology-exists-and-its-awesome/
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New Short Story and Another Daily WTF
My story “The Blue Stain of Piracy” is live on Garbled Transmissions! Also, “Manual Time Entry” was posted to The Daily WTF a week ago. Go check them out!
“The Right Way to Find a File.” Don’t use toddler logic in your code, people. You can read it here.
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The Daily WTF: Internet.toLowercase
“Internet.toLowerCase.” A developer learns the hard way that parsing HTML is no walk in the park. You can read it here.
A computer catches a human virus. You can read it here.