1st
03:37 am

Blame Yendi

- 86 comments

02:10 pm

Emily Lakdawalla's What's up in the solar system in October 2011



02:16 pm

A couple of interesting things from Tor

- 57 comments

02:52 pm

An important election issue

- 34 comments

03:46 pm

Personal road bumps in The Highest Frontier

- 8 comments

05:44 pm

And now

- 30 comments

08:43 pm

self-serving

- 11 comments

2nd
03:52 pm

ideas that did not pan out

- 5 comments

04:00 pm

Alastair Reynolds' "Fifty Years"

- 15 comments

04:18 pm

Escape to Earth

- 29 comments

04:40 pm

Context is for the weak

- 14 comments

3rd
02:57 am

Right of Reply

- 6 comments

02:00 pm

I'm sure there's a way to spin this to inflame American paranoia

- 3 comments

02:14 pm

Nicked from eska

- 13 comments

02:22 pm

In response to a comment made elsewhere



02:22 pm

In response to a comment made elsewhere

- 44 comments

02:46 pm

Fine



02:46 pm

Fine

- 44 comments

03:14 pm

Because nobody demanded it!

- 13 comments

03:41 pm

Discovered in part because I wanted to see if "Temperatures Rising" had a TV Tropes entry

- 21 comments

04:06 pm

I was going to post about how short the golden age of Mississippi Paddlewheelers was

- 37 comments

4th
04:01 am

Nicked from telophase

- 6 comments

04:45 am

As mentioned earlier

- 3 comments

04:52 am

Suddenly and without warning

- 5 comments

01:54 pm

While checking to see if we got around to talking about Lord Valentine's Castle

- 20 comments

02:09 pm

When is

- 9 comments

02:24 pm

Linking to two threads by the same person

- 12 comments
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02:52 pm

A poll


Tags:

02:52 pm

A poll

- 44 comments
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03:28 pm

Seen at Science Fiction Awards Watch



06:58 pm

Terra Nova: Episode Whatever

- 13 comments

07:05 pm

Christopher Sims

- 16 comments

5th
02:49 am

Contrary to the claim that found on usenet = memetic prophylactic recommended

- 4 comments

03:13 am

Some day this will be me

- 16 comments

03:51 am

Not where I expected to run into this

- 33 comments

01:09 pm

Writer Beware and the Write Agenda

- 6 comments

01:41 pm

This I believe

- 39 comments

03:17 pm

I'm right in thinking

- 9 comments

03:33 pm

Prepared

- 16 comments
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04:00 pm

For the fairest



04:00 pm

For the fairest

- 30 comments

07:10 pm

Awesome!

- 26 comments

08:03 pm

So I was reading the article on Reactionary Fantasies

- 50 comments

10:37 pm

Awesome!

- 2 comments

6th
01:16 am

The pain of an affluent, middle-aged white American denied his boyhood fantasies

- 103 comments

01:32 am

Unrelated to previous post

- 23 comments

10:06 am

October 6, 2011

- 11 comments

10:34 am

Since I will be out today

- 33 comments

7th
12:34 pm

So very tired

- 16 comments
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01:40 pm

Well, this is disheartening

- 12 comments

02:06 pm

A Swiftly Tilting Planet?

- 1 comment

02:18 pm

Because I care

- 94 comments

07:01 pm

Is there

- 32 comments

8th
04:04 am

Nicked from burger_eater

- 22 comments

04:08 pm

Do My Homework

- 89 comments

04:31 pm

I do not personally have a squid in this fight

- 13 comments

08:45 pm

As pointed out in email: Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet

- 3 comments

11:25 pm

I watched part of a tv presentation in honour of Les Miserables' 25th anniversary

- 3 comments

9th
04:09 am

Found on the Planetary Society Blog

- 8 comments

04:19 am

Which reminds me

- 1 comment

04:26 am

It's that time of year again

- 11 comments

04:33 am

Thanks to Osamu Tezuka

- 4 comments

02:39 pm

As a non-drawer

- 9 comments

03:29 pm

Because the discussion about Have Spacesuit, Will Travel is still ongoing over on rasfw

- 9 comments

03:57 pm

I keep meaning to post this

- 13 comments

10th
03:22 am

Where clicking on stuff on TV tropes eventually leads one

- 10 comments

03:30 am

I know how much food is enough

- 6 comments

10:22 am

A BOTEC



10:22 am

A BOTEC

- 23 comments

03:07 pm

Not distracted by the shiny

- 29 comments

07:45 pm

Question

- 48 comments

07:57 pm

A poll



07:57 pm

A poll

- 61 comments

11th
04:21 am

Vesta's South Polar Region

- 1 comment

05:05 am

Across Mars

- 5 comments

01:46 pm

Tiger & Bunny

- 5 comments

02:19 pm

Is it so wrong

- 8 comments

03:16 pm

Two things I noticed at the SF Gateway

- 2 comments

12th
03:34 am

Nicked from kristine_smith

- 5 comments

03:59 am

Nancy Atkinson's Infographic: Space Launches Over Time

- 11 comments

02:18 pm

The usual sort of meme

- 4 comments

02:31 pm

Good news!

- 5 comments

02:36 pm

The latest awesome bike thing: Special Oktoberfest Edition

- 14 comments

02:36 pm

Mississippi Personhood Amendment



02:36 pm

Mississippi Personhood Amendment

- 5 comments

02:48 pm

13,000

- 2 comments

02:54 pm

Long R.A. MacAvoy Famine Ends

- 7 comments

03:03 pm

On this day in 1979

- 19 comments

03:48 pm

There's a thread over on shwi

- 77 comments

04:28 pm

I had no idea

- 30 comments

07:18 pm

It's good that people seem to have stopped talking about the News Corpse wire-tap scandal

- 12 comments

07:50 pm

MILLIONS PRAY

- 21 comments

07:57 pm

Curse my excess of Dihydrotestosterone! -or- I'm too Sexy for My Hair

- 7 comments

13th
02:36 pm

Case Histories: Whichever Episode It Was



02:55 pm

It came up in conversation

- 23 comments

03:06 pm

Emily Lakdawalla's "Eris and embargoes (or: don't fear Ingelfinger!)"

- 16 comments

04:30 pm

Things Elections Ontario turns out to have a procedure to deal with

- 11 comments

04:41 pm

Fear the Kraken!

- 13 comments

05:47 pm

Sad

- 4 comments

06:52 pm

Today's minor epiphany

- 9 comments

14th
01:56 pm

Am I right in thinking

- 3 comments

02:07 pm

Martin Lewis' review of In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood

- 5 comments

02:20 pm

Speaking of the Harold Campings and William Millers of the World

- 9 comments

02:41 pm

The Gods Mock Me

- 13 comments

03:06 pm

A poll



03:06 pm

A poll

- 38 comments

03:10 pm

I guess today is Atwood Day



03:38 pm

Two questions

- 11 comments

04:06 pm

I don't expect to see

- 89 comments

05:02 pm

Unfortunately this turns into Mark Trail: Two-Fisted Furry far too easily

- 47 comments

06:56 pm

Context is for the weak

- 16 comments

08:26 pm

Troubled America cedes interplanetary ambitions to shadowy Eurasian cabal

- 3 comments

15th
03:59 am

Seen at Zehrs

- 29 comments

10:04 am

A poll



10:04 am

A poll

- 53 comments

10:15 am

What I learned today

- 7 comments

10:23 am

A follow-up



10:23 am

A follow-up

- 18 comments

02:30 pm

Authoritarian Transeurasian cabal sets eyes on Red Planet

- 15 comments

02:37 pm

Context is for the weak



02:37 pm

Context is for the weak

- 18 comments

02:46 pm

If you want to be gassy and have stomach cramps

- 1 comment

03:17 pm

Justine Larbalestier's "I Love Bad Reviews"

- 10 comments

04:40 pm

Guess who is at the other end of this link

- 52 comments

05:48 pm

More on the Giant Triassic Kraken

- 3 comments

16th
03:53 am

Rogers PVRs

- 17 comments

04:17 am

No reason



04:17 am

No reason

- 73 comments

03:09 pm

Is there an Elseworlds

- 14 comments

03:23 pm

With all due respect to the late Jim Croce

- 10 comments

03:56 pm

Pseudonymancy

- 57 comments

06:02 pm

Two articles from the CBC

- 7 comments

17th
06:14 am

Ode on a Flower

- 4 comments

02:19 pm

The First Commercial Spaceport opens in Troubled America

- 3 comments

02:32 pm

This is my surprised face

- 60 comments

02:41 pm

Doom Watch ROSAT

- 2 comments

03:28 pm

Betty Driver (1920 - 2011)



04:10 pm

How stories evolve

- 37 comments

04:20 pm

Democracy shock horror in Canada!

- 7 comments

18th
03:54 am

Relevent to my interests

- 1 comment

04:08 am

I didn't know Pierre Berton wrote poetry

- 4 comments

04:17 am

I keep wondering this

- 24 comments

04:50 am

Linking is not advocacy

- 30 comments

09:34 am

Nicked from APOD

- 9 comments

01:45 pm

Interesting bit on the CBC

- 8 comments

03:01 pm

Something under three million years ago

- 20 comments

03:28 pm

Alexander

- 39 comments

19th
04:13 am

The one infallible indication that one is in an alternate universe is the presence of airships

- 17 comments

05:08 pm

Nicked from Charlie's Diary

- 25 comments

05:47 pm

Panic in the Sky: catastrophic comet storm detected falling inwards

- 2 comments

06:16 pm

A poll



06:16 pm

A poll

- 13 comments

07:37 pm

Huh

- 23 comments

20th
02:05 am

My tentative SFContario Schedule

- 2 comments

02:18 am

Wednesday Night Trail of Cthulhu: The Final Adventure

- 10 comments

05:44 am

Interesting

- 12 comments
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02:15 pm

Three Links

- 21 comments

02:34 pm

Exit Moammar Gadhafi

- 15 comments

02:43 pm

A mish mash of influences I will probably never use.

- 19 comments

06:30 pm

A problem I only just now encountered for the first time

- 12 comments

06:43 pm

I am just that lazy

- 15 comments

07:44 pm

*eye-twitch*

- 36 comments

21st
11:24 am

Context is for the weak



11:24 am

Context is for the weak

- 12 comments

03:40 pm

Triumphs!

- 5 comments

04:26 pm

My mail box is a converted milk box

- 12 comments

07:05 pm

QWP

- 12 comments

07:12 pm

I was going to mock Canada's achievements in space

- 5 comments

22nd
11:14 am

A poll



11:14 am

A poll

- 43 comments

03:43 pm

You know which 20th anniversary is coming up?

- 1 comment

03:48 pm

Another poll



03:48 pm

Another poll

- 46 comments

04:27 pm

Nicked from Stephanie Clarkson

- 8 comments

06:17 pm

Sometimes old time songs aren't as bad as you imagine

- 19 comments

23rd
04:02 am

I for one am upset to see folk musicians used for political purposes

- 11 comments

04:15 am

WHY

- 12 comments

04:27 pm

Please jog my memory

- 18 comments

05:53 pm

Ebay auction for Ed Bryant

- 1 comment

07:40 pm

A new product that almost works

- 2 comments

24th
03:16 am

Why are the so many

- 16 comments

03:24 am

Autofill saves time

- 7 comments

02:49 pm

I'm sure there's a story behind this

- 9 comments

03:24 pm

A Poll



03:24 pm

A Poll

- 34 comments

03:41 pm

From a thread on rasfw

- 20 comments

04:03 pm

An idea for an anthology

- 52 comments

06:55 pm

As pointed out in email:

- 3 comments

07:31 pm

Also from email

- 14 comments

07:33 pm

Too much spare time?

- 11 comments

25th
03:53 am

Nighttime ambush of politician provokes unexpected reaction

- 28 comments

04:44 am

Yes, I will be watching this season

- 7 comments

03:59 pm

First the Panama Canal and now space! (2)

- 15 comments

05:35 pm

As pointed out by sienamystic

- 11 comments

05:49 pm

Found on Amazon

- 12 comments

07:41 pm

Apophenia!

- 10 comments

26th
03:46 am

Sad Day for America

- 22 comments

02:52 pm

Two from the Planetary Society Blog

- 10 comments

03:12 pm

In memory of the B53

- 9 comments

06:10 pm

Thanks to the vicissitudes of memory

- 65 comments

06:54 pm

55 Cancri A e appears to be a water world

- 1 comment

07:14 pm

Nicked from Pegg Kerr

- 7 comments

07:54 pm

We Report, You Decide!

- 13 comments

27th
02:47 pm

Can someone point me at a source for the current events at Uturuncu

- 5 comments

02:51 pm

Wednesday Night Icons: There was no Wednesday Night Icons

- 4 comments

02:57 pm

A belated 10th Orbital insertion day

- 3 comments

03:06 pm

RMR: Rick's Rant - Teen Suicide

- 26 comments

04:00 pm

Mayor Ford: the gift that keeps giving

- 12 comments

04:14 pm

An example of how to deal with an unpleasant set-back

- 11 comments

05:20 pm

Because it's come up in a number of books recently

- 51 comments

28th
02:54 pm

Today's discovery (via Martha Wells)

- 6 comments

03:21 pm

76,767,245,372nd!

- 45 comments

04:21 pm

A follow-up poll



04:21 pm

A follow-up poll

- 52 comments

07:45 pm

1434 all over again?

- 22 comments

29th
03:16 pm

Big changes for Canadian, lesser monarchies

- 16 comments

03:37 pm

Apparently I care about this



03:37 pm

Apparently I care about this

- 28 comments

06:12 pm

Who ordered this?

- 20 comments

30th
03:41 am

Something I kept thinking while the exgf was watching From Hell

- 2 comments

04:02 am

ANyone know

- 3 comments

06:02 am

Good to know

- 1 comment

03:47 pm

From October 30, 1938: Orson Welles' War of the Worlds

- 7 comments

04:09 pm

Because it had banjo music, that's why

- 18 comments

06:17 pm

For a guy who is tanking in the polls

- 17 comments

31st
03:45 am

Attack the Block

- 15 comments

03:06 pm

PROGRESS SHOCK HORROR

- 2 comments

04:33 pm

Inspired by a discussion at Genreville



04:33 pm

Inspired by a discussion at Genreville

- 35 comments

04:37 pm

And the follow-up



04:37 pm

And the follow-up

- 52 comments

05:40 pm

Why the two polls

- 2 comments

06:36 pm

Memories

- 15 comments

06:51 pm

Story fodder for deep future types

- 9 comments

07:10 pm

About the tv version of The Walking Dead

- 5 comments

07:18 pm

Nick Mamatas' fault

- 10 comments

07:32 pm

A follow-up to the follow-up



07:32 pm

A follow-up to the follow-up

- 51 comments

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