1st
10:20 am

I did not know this

- 5 comments

10:46 am

Too much choice (1)

- 33 comments

10:47 am

Too much choice (2)

- 13 comments

11:05 am

And the moral here

- 19 comments

04:54 pm

Well, that was the most anti-climactic emergency room trip ever

- 25 comments

2nd
07:16 am

Operation shift my waking time so I can get to the polls by 7:30 AM

- 6 comments

01:42 pm

Novelettes delenda est



01:42 pm

Novelettes delenda est

- 54 comments

03:43 pm

World becomes slightly better place

- 21 comments

09:48 pm

I am not 100% certain of this

- 17 comments

11:30 pm

The Hugo Winners

- 8 comments
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11:42 pm

Poe's Law

- 14 comments

11:47 pm

Mindwebs: The Unfinished and To The Dark Star

- 8 comments
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11:55 pm

Mindwebs: Running Around & Swords Of Ifthan and

- 7 comments

3rd
12:04 am

Mindwebs: They and The Exhibition


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12:15 am

Mindwebs: Garden Of Time and The Maze


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12:23 am

The Hugo Statistics

- 7 comments

09:25 am

The Hugo Winners f/m

- 4 comments
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10:00 am

The grim tyranny of the interwebs

- 30 comments

11:24 am

Non-ironic kudos to Stanley Schmidt

- 7 comments

04:01 pm

Mindwebs: Test & The Nine Billion Names of God and The Meeting

- 3 comments

04:31 pm

A hole lot of nothing

- 2 comments

11:28 pm

Mindwebs: Singularities Make Me Nervous

- 5 comments
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4th
11:03 am

Note to self

- 13 comments

11:30 am

And another thing about James White



12:41 pm

a poll



12:41 pm

a poll

- 54 comments

09:23 pm

Mindwebs: The Worm

- 3 comments
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11:34 pm

Mindwebs: Country Of The Kind

- 6 comments
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5th
09:30 am

Curious about Chinese and Indian SF

- 38 comments

11:21 am

Inspired by a MetaFilter thread

- 62 comments

11:47 am

Pretty

- 8 comments

12:35 pm

An "it's ok just this once" poll



12:35 pm

An "it's ok just this once" poll

- 76 comments

01:57 pm

Congratulations to all the Hugo winners

- 38 comments
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02:08 pm

Snubbed

- 4 comments

03:15 pm

The Superfogeys

- 7 comments

11:18 pm

Mindwebs: The End Of The World Rag and The Devil Car and Doing Lennon

- 9 comments

6th
09:53 pm

Survived the election

- 16 comments

7th
09:48 am

I'd like to reconsider something I said on tor.com

- 51 comments

10:00 am

That election I worked in

- 1 comment

10:51 am

Third time is the charm!

- 7 comments

10:54 am

Shocker: LJ's history of ill-considered changes alienates user base

- 42 comments

11:54 am

Mindwebs: In the Abyss & Adam and no Eve

- 16 comments

02:04 pm

Damn You Charles Schultz

- 21 comments

04:13 pm

Does anyone here know

- 26 comments

11:31 pm

Mindwebs: The Tank and Its Wife

- 4 comments
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8th
10:48 am

Relevent to my interests: the triumph of sadness

- 13 comments

01:50 pm

Interesting if true

- 13 comments

10:08 pm

This is my amazed face

- 9 comments

11:34 pm

Mindwebs: The Man Who Returned and A Night In Elf Hill and The Valley Of Echoes

- 9 comments

9th
12:31 am

Well, well, well

- 12 comments

11:39 am

I was wrong!

- 10 comments

11:50 am

Slain by an ugly fact

- 31 comments

12:08 pm

You must suffer with me

- 56 comments

04:05 pm

What would be your impression as a reader

- 57 comments

09:59 pm

I wonder how well this has aged?

- 13 comments

11:26 pm

Question

- 13 comments

11:54 pm

Mindwebs: The Top and Game For Motel Room

- 3 comments
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10th
10:23 am

This is going to run longer than racefail, isn't it

- 153 comments

11:56 am

You must suffer with me

- 19 comments

01:06 pm

A tale of two kitties

- 5 comments
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11:50 pm

I am not promising anything

- 31 comments

11th
12:07 am

Mindwebs: Dont Look Now and My Object All Sublime

- 17 comments
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10:32 am

Words to live by

- 12 comments

10:36 am

Gun Nut Caught Voting



11:56 am

Planning a crewed space mission?

- 4 comments

11:58 am

Question

- 24 comments

01:31 pm

The Nineteen Seventies

- 44 comments

03:25 pm

Repost from soc.history.what-if

- 7 comments

11:15 pm

Mindwebs: The Sentinel

- 21 comments
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11:50 pm

I didn't get to see a lot of films in the 1970s

- 16 comments

12th
12:00 pm

John Picacio's A Visual History of the Best Professional Artist Hugo Award Winners

- 8 comments

12:46 pm

There are few beings more pleased looking

- 6 comments
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06:07 pm

Mindwebs: The Cage and Rememberance To Come

- 5 comments
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06:44 pm

Dear sf readers of the world

- 43 comments

11:58 pm

There's nothing like taking a case to look for a missing business executive

- 3 comments

13th
12:26 am

An odd omission?

- 3 comments

12:59 pm

A post about the ongoing harassment conversation I can only call

- 42 comments

01:14 pm

So, something about the election I thought I could have handled better

- 14 comments

03:03 pm

A question about killers in fiction



03:03 pm

A question about killers in fiction

- 52 comments

05:20 pm

Science Snark

- 7 comments

09:50 pm

Mindwebs: Phoenix and Saucer Of Loneliness

- 7 comments
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11:46 pm

So it all begins innocently enough with kids licking space meteors in the hope of getting powers

- 13 comments
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14th
10:25 am

The deadly threat of Young Adult Fiction

- 24 comments

10:47 am

Sub-Cultural Darwinism: Some Thoughts on the Rise and Fall of Fandoms

- 38 comments

11:19 am

This I believe!

- 31 comments

11:50 am

A poll not endorsed by astronomers



11:50 am

A poll not endorsed by astronomers

- 59 comments

11:31 pm

It turns out the gender field in the F0521

- 4 comments

11:34 pm

Mindwebs: Rebel and Great Slow Kings & Earthmen Bearing Gifts

- 1 comment
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15th
12:58 pm

In the tradition of standard railroad gauge being determined by Roman chariot ruts

- 36 comments

02:33 pm

Dear Publishers, Let Me Write Blurbs

- 52 comments
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03:57 pm

Dear Musicans of the World

- 17 comments

11:38 pm

Mindwebs: Over The Line and Portable Phonograph

- 7 comments

16th
11:17 am

This is cute

- 3 comments

12:06 pm

The secret THEY don't want you to know

- 3 comments

12:16 pm

For the record

- 5 comments

01:00 pm

I am aware of the parallels to Day of the Triffids

- 7 comments

01:15 pm

Degenerate robot fanciers seek to tempt you from MAN'S GLORIOUS DESTINY IN SPACE with pretty video

- 2 comments

01:28 pm

Assume for the purposes of the poll they are both still alive



01:28 pm

Assume for the purposes of the poll they are both still alive

- 23 comments

11:09 pm

Mindwebs: Affair With A Green Monkey and Helen O'Loy

- 29 comments
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17th
11:44 am

This has been bouncing around in my head for a while

- 59 comments

06:18 pm

Wait

- 10 comments

07:08 pm

Today's lesson

- 21 comments

11:43 pm

According to Mitt Romney

- 27 comments

11:48 pm

Mindwebs: Nature Boy

- 7 comments

18th
01:44 am

How fare the candidates for POTUS in popular culture?

- 21 comments

01:49 am

And a follow up

- 2 comments

01:11 pm

One Day

- 6 comments

04:42 pm

All publicity is good publicity, right?

- 7 comments

11:41 pm

Mindwebs: The Hell Bound Train

- 3 comments

19th
12:51 am

If by fifty

- 30 comments

11:16 am

Everything is connected

- 2 comments

08:50 pm

I assume Allstate's intention is to drive off female customers

- 29 comments

11:23 pm

Interesting email

- 22 comments

20th
12:31 am

Guess what this is called?

- 24 comments

11:19 am

Fun with geo-engineering



11:39 am

A disturbing point

- 30 comments

01:08 pm

I can relate to this

- 4 comments

04:44 pm

Mindwebs: Weep No More, Old Lady

- 11 comments
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11:16 pm

Mindwebs: Or All The Seas With Oysters and Light Of Other Days

- 10 comments
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11:37 pm

Mindwebs: Wasted On The Young and Evergreen Library


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21st
12:10 pm

If I thought this was true, I'd stop reviewing F&SF for a living

- 27 comments

01:38 pm

Cheaper geometry for Alcubierre Drive

- 35 comments

04:34 pm

Dear DC Comics, please die in a fire

- 35 comments

11:17 pm

There'll Be No Butter Beyond the Wall!

- 9 comments

11:19 pm

The rate of battery discharge on a Playbook does not seem to be entirely linear

- 5 comments

22nd
12:15 am

Some vehicles I saw

- 15 comments

11:31 am

To answer a quesion asked in comments



11:31 am

To answer a quesion asked in comments

- 54 comments

02:16 pm

And a million wingnuts rejoiced!

- 19 comments

03:18 pm

If I believe the time stamps on the email I am getting from someone else in KW

- 5 comments

11:44 pm

Mindwebs: Imposter

- 18 comments

23rd
12:55 am

A question two years too late

- 7 comments
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11:25 am

Today's Doonesbury

- 5 comments

12:19 pm

It's a sad thing

- 10 comments

12:44 pm

This is just like the driving chirality thing

- 13 comments

11:25 pm

Mindwebs: The Metal Man and Knock and Kellerman's Eye Piece

- 6 comments
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24th
10:05 am

The feral cat model of rogue's galleries or The Not So Bad Guys

- 74 comments

04:11 pm

This week on "Romney says the darnest things"

- 59 comments

11:42 pm

In his own words

- 4 comments

11:46 pm

Mindwebs: The Last Ghost and The Machine In Shaft 10



11:53 pm

I think I have determined what my next bus listening project will be

- 15 comments
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25th
09:52 am

In fact that Foundation LP I remember owning was not from the BBC production

- 20 comments

11:01 am

You know what's really sad?

- 18 comments

03:05 pm

Am I being uncharitable

- 4 comments

11:27 pm

Primeval: Canadian Spinoff

- 14 comments

11:52 pm

A quarter century later

- 35 comments

11:53 pm

Mindwebs: Apple and Restricted Area


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26th
12:35 am

I am as surprised as you are

- 5 comments

10:57 am

Huh

- 31 comments

11:12 am

Isaiah Mustafa would really like to play Luke Cage

- 10 comments

11:28 am

Paul Ryan, Team Player?

- 9 comments

12:29 pm

:D

- 7 comments

12:34 pm

A poll



12:34 pm

A poll

- 30 comments

10:46 pm

So some vague ideas for kinda sorta ripped off from Jack Williamson setting

- 49 comments

27th
12:45 am

Mindwebs: Look Homeward, Spaceman and Nackels

- 3 comments
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11:08 pm

This is actually an interesting question

- 7 comments

11:29 pm

Not feeling inspired tonight

- 16 comments

11:41 pm

Is anyone else



11:41 pm

Is anyone else

- 4 comments

28th
11:22 am

I'm just going to quote comics curmudgeon on this one

- 9 comments

11:35 am

Interesting if true: Are even more people being subjected to culturally inappropriate prosperity?

- 6 comments

11:48 am

The Globe asks a stupid question

- 1 comment

01:03 pm

What Seanan McGuire won't do to her characters

- 37 comments

11:18 pm

Mindwebs: Young Girl At An Open Half Door and The Language Of Love and Desertion

- 22 comments
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29th
12:29 am

Question about Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 Crash

- 7 comments

11:02 am

Pretty!

- 11 comments

11:07 am

Has anyone done a full scale radio serial



12:18 pm

Clifford D. Simak and the Emergence of Pastoral Science Fiction

- 1 comment

12:44 pm

Anyone know offhand

- 19 comments

03:18 pm

a poll



03:18 pm

a poll

- 11 comments

04:12 pm

False Steps: The Armstrong Whitworth Pyramid: For an Empire on the Up

- 14 comments

11:13 pm

Mindwebs: Letter To a Phoenix and The Gun Without A Bang

- 17 comments
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30th
12:07 pm

As pointed out in email

- 35 comments

12:18 pm

War! In! Space! In! Fiction!

- 7 comments

12:25 pm

Spotted on facebook

- 5 comments

01:09 pm

Does anyone here remember

- 23 comments

02:44 pm

Today's hypotheses

- 21 comments

02:50 pm

Sad

- 8 comments

03:08 pm

At the risk of undermining my street cred

- 10 comments

03:24 pm

When I am the increasingly demented ruler of Earth

- 18 comments

05:54 pm

Only funny to me

- 12 comments

11:12 pm

Mindwebs: En Passant & Dreamworld and The Bible After Apocolypse

- 4 comments
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